What defines a 'genuine tourist' in Thailand?

At the end of the day that’s exactly what we are Visitors who spend money

Sadly sometimes not made very welcome 🙏

Looks like we got a new Billy

Genuine toursts are those that wear T shirts like "Fly Emirates" or "Beer Chang".

Zip off pants and Tewa sandals. Harmless and honest they are, not even knowing of stay extensions, border runs, not even knowing Thai Immigration offices exist.

Other than organized groups (like Chinese), 90

% of the tourists are like that. Thais tolerate them, as they tolerate insects. They enjoy whatever they enjoy in Thai, barely knowing where they are and what is around them.

Everyone who visits another country for a certain period of time for whatever reason and will not work or retire in that country because then it becomes an expat or immigrant.

It's whatever Thai Immigration says it is.

Coming to live with your family is definitely not in the definition of tourist

We are ALL TOURISTS or I think the legal status is ALIEN ..Some tourists are happy to be in the 1-2 week number I day mode …some arent happy after 30-40 year of travelling continuously to be called a tourists ,,,…peoole like to put labels on other people they have never meet ..thailand was always very flexiable about the term tourist and how it implicated it before the digital nomads quite brazenly started sharing the abuse by NOT being a tourist and quite openly shared how to make money while on a tourist visa ….that effected peoole like yourself who didn’t fit into the pigeon hole of a 1-2 week tourist who chose to to stay as long as you felt ,like it was before ..no abuse of system ,,no criminal activity ,,no work just chilling longer than tne majority but within that length of time like I said we are all aliens .. I quite like that term myself

A tourist is someone who has holidays where they have tickets back to thier country, have hotels booked, and money to sustain them.

What immigration don't want people who max thier visa exempts, extend them and do border bounces to extend them further.

Anything in between is betweern you and the immigration officer.

It's someone that doesn't come to live in Thailand long term. After a few months maximum they go back to their home country. They don't work, and usually don't open bank accounts, rent a place long term or have a Thai driving license. All their stuff fit in a suitcase or a backpack.

In Thailand you are a genuine tourist only during your first visit. After you figure out the layout you are living as chill as you want. So essentially a genuine tourist is a regular western parasite who can fake it succesfuly.

Good list but it's not spending a few months with your family touring and spending money it appears.

A “genuine tourist” isn’t defined by flip-flops, backpacks, age, or how many beers you drink. It’s defined by behavior, not lifestyle. If you come, stay a reasonable time, leave again, don’t work illegally, and don’t live in Thailand by chaining exemptions together, you’re a tourist. If you effectively live there temporarily or long time without the right visa, you’re not. Simple as that.

A genuine tourist is defined as someone the old and/or pathetic expats on the Facebook groups are NOT jealous of, have less money than them, and are significantly inferior to them. Everyone else that comes to Thailand is somehow a criminal and should be banned.