What defines a 'real tourist' in Thailand?

Your point?????

A real tourist is someone who comes to Thailand to travel, explore, and enjoy the country, then leaves within the permitted stay often returning again and again over the years. Multiple short visits, no overstays, no extensions, just genuine tourism. The rules and labels may change, but the spirit of tourism hasn’t. For more insight on visas, travel patterns, and how immigration views them today, it’s worth checking out Landscape for practical tips.

My hero.

“Never even knew that Thai Immigration even existed” - this statement after 110 visits to Thailand probably excludes you as a real tourist. Real tourists enter a country through immigration control points (such as official land border crossings, airports, seaports) and will have encountered Thai Immigration. So, if this is not the case, one of two things is likely:

- your entries into Thailand were uncontrolled border crossings, as in brief crossings from a bordering country

- you intentionally avoided immigration and illegally entered the country without a visa and without being granted visa exempt entry officially

Is this to visit your 1 friend.

I am beginning to wonder how many if these posts are genuine

First, today is not yesterday, last year, or 20 years ago. Today Thailand is fighting money laundering, scam centers, and a shooting border conflict. Today’s restrictions on tourist travel reflects today’s national Thai issues. And for the most part, they are not changes in the immigration rules and policies but stricter enforcement of existing rules.

Second, from Thailand’s perspective a tourist is what they say a tourist is. Countries have borders and they decide who can come and go and how and when and for how long. Thailand’s experience is that the average tourist stays 8-10 days. Maybe western tourists stay 2-3 weeks as you have done. 70% of tourists spend less than 30 days per year and the vast majority less than 60 days. And those tourists, in numbers and spending, are the ones Thailand pays attention to.

Westerners constantly complain about their own country’s immigration policies. It’s ironic that they would complain about Thailand actually enforcing their policies.

8 times a year? Are you from Vietnam?

What is the point of your post?

Yep. You win the Thai tourist Olympics. 😎

The beasts and the monsters, visit regularly too!

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Wanker

110 times. 55 countries probably. What a guy. Salute this man.

What a, hero. Nonsense post

Huh? Your post is nonsensical

Imagine...You come once train muay thai. Decide to buy scooter and explore,go to Laos, come back,modify bike in bangkok go tk chiang mai and so on

Are you asking a question? People can travel to Thailand often as tourists. Nothing has really changed.

The real tourist is the one who travels every country, not just the one who travels to thailand , don't forget that.