Hi. Can someone tell me what is the best business to start in Thailand.
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The discussion revolves around finding the best business to start in Thailand, with numerous comments suggesting various options like bars, restaurants, and massage shops. Many participants caution against starting a business due to market saturation and challenges regarding ownership regulations, highlighting that a foreigner can only own 49% of a business. Unique niche markets, such as personalized services or innovative concepts, are recommended as potential opportunities. Overall, while some responses are humorous or skeptical, the consensus suggests that thorough market research and understanding local regulations are crucial before moving forward with any business venture.
Sidney *********
Driving instructor.
Graham ***********
I have invented the Covid safe condom
They have ink in the end of them
So if you can’t come you can leave a message
Will I have a good business selling these
Follow me for more tips🤪🤪🤪🤪
Roy ********
This is a question I have also pondered.
Hugh **********
Whatever this guy did. 🤔
Si *******
Sometimes but not always it’s better to do nothing,
Your money will last longer.
Unless you are an expert in something you will end up throwing money into a bottomless pit.
Brady *********
Tourists
Cars
Food
Beaty products
AI coaching
Jeff *********
Minding your own business...
T ****************
Mexican restaurant
Galenus ******
None, you need work permit🤣
Roger ********
A bar..... trust me
Phil ********
Massage
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Pharmacy
Restaurant
Bar
Carl *****
English lessons...
Rusty ********
Napkin packs
Hans *******
garbage recycling - really needed
Korn *******
Amazon coffee if you have around 3 m baht
Glen ********
Manufacturing brown paper bags
Jj ****
Gogobar in Pattaya or Patong or Samui. Avoid bkk
Alex ********
Want to make a small fortune in Thailand huh?
Best way is to take a large fortune and the rest will take care if itself
Manfred ******
If you need to ask, then you are not a business man
Michael *******
Click bait if ever I saw one
Lemus ********
Prostitution 🧐
Da *****
What a stupid question. If youre asking this on facebook, you clearly should NOT be starting a business. In Thailand or anywhere.
Mike ********
No business!!!
Jean-Michel *********
I could work as freelance consultant in the framework of international trade (trase defense instruments - WTO) as I have an experience of more than 20 years in the domain. But I'm 67 and retired. I'm tired and don't need money.
Aaron *******
What I don't understand, is why so many guys retire to Thailand and open "girly bars?" My karma debt is already high enough.
It's a good business according to my gf. She has the hostess but rental in good place are very expensive. A business at risk for many reasons. But profitable anyway if you know how to organise special events.
Aaron *******
Don't know how good or bad it is financial. Just not the type of business I would care to be in. Would one open a "girlie bar" or strip club in their own country?
the best business is the one you like most , the one you master the best ..there is no absolute " best business" . stu...d question !!!
if anybody knew what is the best business , everybody would be in this business .
Marcus ********
Nothing. Hey money in usa then leave
Barry ********
Monkey 🐒?
Hans *******
garbage recycling - absolutely necessary!!!
Hans *******
garbage recycling😁
Simon ********************
Weed shop for sure. There are so few of them. Every time I'm looking to get high I have to walk miles to find one. /s 😂
James **********
A business advising others what is the best business to start.
Juan ********
Another one ...
David ********
Bar for sure
Peter ******
Study trading on the stock market..
Bent *************
Teaching Thais to speak an understandingly English
Jeffrey *****
Scholarly work such as tutoring services
ปีเตอร์ *******
The best idea: keep your money in your home country,!
John *******
Ask the bar girls they have all the answers
Tammy *********
Bamboo forest. Big customer is China. Buyers come to choose the tree. You cut and ship it. It’s used for furnitures, textiles and many others. Only certain types of bamboo can be sold for high prices. You need special permits to grow it in certain provinces. But you have to have Thai partners to have business licenses.
Jeff ********
BJ Bar
Chris ******
Remote online work
Andy ******
What ever you think to do the thais have allready done it or will copy you then you go broke ..ffs why would you want to start a business in a country you know nothing about read or write thai
Richard ********
You really think someone will say you ?
Bob *******
No business , best to make enough money in home country before you come Thailand . Most businesses go broke that are started up for a variety of reasons short high season and long low season . Internet is best option and no staff , YouTubers make beer money !
Alan ******
Disposable income is a big factor, most Thai's have none so you would need to try for the farang option, which is finnicky, static and unreliable and beside a Thai business partner is required. What sort of business, for starters experience in what you're going to run would be an advantage.
Pablo ********
Sell rice. I am pretty sure everyone here eats it.
Kristian ***************
As a foreign there are many business you can't start. I'd check that list first.
Think of a common problem in Thailand that hasn't been solved. Start a business that solves the problem.
Tommy ******
The non buisness....
Lenny ******
Ice cream 🍦
Jake *****
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Keiton *****
If you need someone to tell you that, you're definitely not made for business.
Robert ******
NONE is the best advice
Leo ******
Seen many work-from-home hiring posted ...all making $3-400 daily. ALDI, Amazon, Walmart.....etc
Frank **********
Become a monk. You can make good money if you hustle at blessing funerals, cars, houses, births, weddings. 555
Monn *********
Seling money, works horific.😎
Frank **********
There are already lots of bars, massage parlo, coffee shops and restaurants. Come up with something unique.
Ron ******
Nail polish
Frank **********
Steffen ********
A bar beer in Pattaya
Tommy *******
Cannabis cafe
Duncan **********
The type of business is mostly irrelevant as the right type of person can make a business work as they plan carefully, research markets and competitors, do trials perhaps, and they certainly don't jump into something with only hope and blind faith. It's no different to any other country really. In any country if 10 people start the exact same business with the same start up capital there will always be a few that fail miserably within a few months, some who may last a year or so and maybe one or two that really make a success of it and build a profitable business
Peter *********
I didn’t see any windscreen chip repair companies there , maybe wrong
Darren ******
Online business , not bricks and motor
Plenty of students out of work who speak English.
Garry ********
The question you asked is not an easy one to answer, there are many hurdles to over come before you open anything. This is my understanding i maybe wrong but I do have some experience in this field, you need to have company to run your business through, but in thailand you can only own 49% of the company the remaining 51% must be owned by 1 or more thai people, you cannot just put a thai person in as a puppet, they must be a financial partner and as such the profit split pro-rata, anything dodgy and you will lose everything and be on the next plane out. This is something the thai Government is clamping down on. So get past that hurdle first.
Charles *****
Buy Bitcoin and sit back and take wages eveey year without working.
Shai ********
Monkey Business
Nigel *********
Greggs
Sam ******
An animal hospital in province.
Plenty of sick buffaloes alone
Jay *****
Just copy what's next door, seems to be the strategy in Thailand.
Istvan *********
If you have to ask this. You better don't start business anywhere on Earth 🤣
Eddy *******
How to make a small fortune in Thàiland Start with a big one
very difficult and you will ned get work permit or lisenced if you don‘t do a business visa / start up visa… for that you‘ll need a unique idea of something not existant / barely existant in thailand - SUPER HARD as a foreigner, besides of thai people/partner needed who would have to own 51% of the property
ignore the haters
Kool *******
When you understand that about 80% of Thailand's GDP is export, mostly small parts and electronics, it will give you direction about what type of business to develop.
Roberta *********
An agency for helping with visas and expat advice.
Stojan *******
Good luck for the start with company opening 😂
Jerry *******
a legal profitable one
Jack **********
Pot
Clifford ***********
Go home and work until you can afford retirement
Marc *******************
buying some land, build some villas or condos and sell them. on samui, phangan, phuket, krabi, chiang mai
Mike *******
Ac hvac sales and service
Darren *********
Connect 4
Vin *********
One that makes money.
Said *******
Go-go bar
Sven ********
Storage facility
Divya ********
Start a bar.
Very high demand for one, since there aren't many, and no one has thought of that before.
Vaughn *********
It’s already started .lol
Nicholas *******
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franchise I think there £25k
Jason ******
Shoe shop , Ladyboys and girl will buy new shoes and high boots on a daily basis esp if your in pattaya and get them made in China buy in bulk, cos they make them cheap for bulk order , and as for import tax only declare half the amount of the value of shoes there actually is and then you make even more money
Francesco *************
Boom boom
Mike *******
Open a bar like the thousands of expats before you! Then you can drink any profits away and become an alcoholic and lose your life savings in a few short years. Or.........invest what you have available if you have extra money. If not, come for a beautiful vacation until you have enough to retire here properly. DO NOT BUY OR OPEN A BUSINESS HERE. VERY FEW MAKE A GO OF IT LONG TERM .......just saying.. good luck!
Mo ****
I would say....."tits n snitz"..........of course!!!!!!
Matthew *********
You can’t, they make business out of you! 🙄
Richard **************
Answering silly questions. That will be 500 baht.
Egger *********
I private eye , I sure many stupid sponsors would like to know the truth of what their Tilak is upto , why she can’t answer the calls . Lol
Shane ************
Forget it man. If you gotta ask you're ready screwed
Rich *******
There’s a popular expression among seasoned expats. “If you want to make a small fortune in Thailand, bring a large one!”
Great cheese and beef. Cater to ex-pats individuals, restaurants and wealthy Thai. Deliver all over Thailand in 24 hours or less. These do exist, but can definitely bring in a profit.
Morgan ******
A gay go go bar
Raja *****************
Yes if you can ? Agriculture land is really a good business and fruits export from Thailand to nearest country like Malaysia Singapore China … it is really good business if you can manage.
Marijke ********
Thai Restaurant
Greg *********
Bar
Pete ********
Don't bother tears before bedtime unless you have buckets full of money ... like start with a million pounds and end up with 100,000 quid left in the pot before you scratch you're head and say I am fucked . Slow boat to blighty back .
Douglas ******
Unless you have money you are willing to lose with no regrets.
Maybe can partner with a Thai person
Johnny *********
Live there some years and you will mostly find out, that we have nothing to come with. You come with food from outside Thailand, and the will be polite and taste but prefer thai kitchen or don’t afford to pay for your food. Massage ? They prefer there own. And if you’re weight is over 70 kilograms then forget it. And new ideas are maybe interesting but there is a reason why they continue with the way they do. You can’t transfer Europe idea into thai culture. But yes there is some business. But if you get it, then suddenly the market is occupied
everything you have written above makes 0 fucking sense Jesus.
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Ryan ********
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Windy *******
Start business as a ladyboy.
Paul *******
Hoe house.
Tony *******
Retirement
Glenn *********
Retirement
Andrew ********
Sell coconuts … easy to source and much in demand. You can make bike helmets from the shell and weave your own bungalow from the hair.
Gregg *************
None
Jake *********
Opium farm. Gigolo escort service for rich bored wives. a candy factory, even in wartime people keep eating candy. producer of good Thai soft porn movies. mobile nomad gossip channel, full of lies and nonsense. Instant 'buddy' rental through internet. Advice tel. line, how to handle jealousy, support decision making, what to eat, how to start excersize etc. or just for a casual chat. Rent-a-pet etc.
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Steven *********
Following
Charles *********
A soapy massage parlor, but with western girls, would stand out amongst the asian parlors.
Fred **********
Condom stall
Malcolm *********
Anti-corruption consultancy services if you don't feel that confident then try durian farming.
Stephen *******
A funeral business
William *************
Coffee
Maple *********
I know some but I can’t started because I don’t have enough budget.😁😁
-Orientated is typically used in British English. In American English we use oriented. For example (American): The teacher will spend the first day of class getting oriented. We need to get oriented to our new home city.Sep 25, 20
Jeff ********
Cowby English? It's concise and succinct. Also nice copy and paste from Google. lol
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Jeff ********
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Jaye ********
Food
Antony ********
Charity, cheap Charlie's at Jomtien need beer.
Giorgio ******
asking this question means you're not able to start a business .
" company registration, visa, work permit... All legal needs.
Have a nice stay in Thailand
Mij *********
Not sure what but from my observations the three overpopulated are massage, bars and weed. The weed are likely to become empty in the next 12 months. Fish and chip shop maybe?
You should at least start reading some news about Thailand and the new rules and regulations on businesses, if you are seriously thinking about moving here and opening a business...sounds like you are just trolling and probably will never move here or open any businesses 🤷
if you asks that, you don't even know the market you are getting into. You won't succeed. Do your market research. Being in the MNC had taught you nothing it seems.
, shops stays. New business is selling descriptions.
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Ari **********
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William *********
Aviation & Logistics
Mikkel *******
The kind of business you'd start anywhere, because you are skilled enough. If you can't do it back home, don't try it when out.
Brian *********
You could literally start anything just stand out in your own way. The good thing is it’s a very diverse market. Find your lane and stick to it.
Andreas *********
I knew somebody who started a tattoo school in Thailand with his Thai wife and the brother in law, and became a Dollar-millionaire in less than 8 years. However he passed away a few years ago at the age of 64
It was named 7-Eleven because the strategy is to have between 7 and 11 stores on every street. The only country where the strategy was successfully rolled out is Thailand
I found out why they do that. The corporation will convince you to open a franchisee and then they will watch to see how well it does. Then, they put one right across the street to compete against you and put you out of business. That is why you see the other change its name because they lost the franchisee and can't afford to pay the franchise charges anymore competing against the same brand across the street owned by the corporation.
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Tom ********
Best business is always food and drink along with accomodation but you need to find a 'Niche' market where it's not already been done a million times.
Jonathan ********
Look after unique businesses that found a unique niche, one i can think of is Larder in phrom phong
Christopher ********
It's really hard to pick a business in Thailand because there's already a million of everything from bars to massage shops. Its all over kill and after covid business is just not the same. I think the key however would be to finding a good location and hope you get lucky getting customers
if you don’t ask questions you don’t learn! Maybe I know a fraction of truth and there’s more to it, who knows! I don’t live in Thailand just yet and only know what “outsiders” know. So please feel free to enlighten me if you wish.
Okay Ill give it a shot. You know when people say 'there is no such thing as a stupid question'? That is actually not entirely true. I learned in mid school how to ask a proper question. People need context with the question to give a proper and helpful answer. So if you ask 'what is the best restaurant in Bangkok' it would be helpful to know if you eat meat or if you fancy local, etc. etc. etc. Another one. If you ask, 'what is the best place to live in Thailand?' it would be helpful to know how old you are, if you like beach or city, if you need medical care, if you fly a lot, if you want to live cheap, etc. etc. etc.
I hope you see where I am going with this?
Asking a group of 70k strangers 'what is the best business to open in Thailand' is just going to give you a bunch of nonsense. It shows you did zero research. It shows you have no business mind, it shows you have zero chance of success...Try doing some research. Or tell people 'Ey, im from here and X years old, I like to start something in the line of X, have an X budget, around X area, do you think this could succeed?'
Sounds fair?
Joe ********
what a fucking shit house you are. Lad was asking for help in choosing something to earn a few quid in Thailand. Is there any need for that fucking assassination. You might not have been able to earn a few quid in Thailand but some of us have been very successful. There’s loads of stuff you can do to earn a living. Sad fucker stop giving advice.
I wouldn’t swear if I didn’t come across Dick’s like you. Didn’t hurt my feeling far from it. I come across cranks like you all the time kid. When someone asked for advise don’t slag them. That’s a cunt that does that
ha ha bet you have no pals in Thailand cos yor a Dick head. One day we may come across each other in Thailand cos the ex pat community is so small. And I’m going to knock fuck out of you you arrogant little cunt.
wow, fiscal threads now:). You are genuine a sour falang haha. Such a gem. Anyway, this is becoming boring now. If you would be able to read you could see I didn't even reply to the original post and the rest does agree with me. Not sure why you feel the need to act so toxic, maybe trouble at home? If you ever need advice about opening a business feel free to reach out if you can do it in a nice way with some intelligent questions;). Bye byeeeee
wow what’s with the hostility? Her being honest about not knowing or under something is something I wish more people could do. I really find it interesting how people choose to either be supportive and helpful or elitist and rude. Not sure why to even bother commenting just to be an arse to someone with nothing helpful to say…
100% correct these are all good questions that need answering before starting any business, you have the horse in front of the cart 👍🏻and it is a very sensible reply to a not so smart question.
oh gosh not at all fair!! But I do see you’ve got plenty of time on your hands to sit and write the bunch of nonsense you are referring to. As I don’t have all the time in the world to waste meaninglessly I’ll leave you to it!
the reason they advising you not to open a business is because outsiders arent allowed to set up a business it has to be set up inthai wifes name and ifu leave her you go with nothing she gets to keep the lot
You asked for an answer. I was decent and gave you, respectively, a proper one. You said I have too much time on my hand. 'A bunch of nonsense'. Okay, now it feels like a waste of time yes. If you do need help opening a business in Thailand or start living here. Feel free to reach out if you can do it in a nice way;).