Harry Chapman 2 visa exempt entries a year is not tourism? Get a grip…. Most money spent in Thailand comes from people like him, meaning persons earning 50-100 k usd/euro/pounds a year visiting on visa exemptions. not from that imaginary unlimited supply of millionaires that Thai authorities tthink they will attract, but which always fail to appear.
They should have figured out by now that most money comes from people visiting Thailand for the first time and returning for more holidays in the same year, or maybe to plan transitioning to a new visa, not from the rich person that only visits once and never returns again. There is only a limited ammount of extremelly rich people globally, so I find it funny that they are losing their minds over tourists who decide to return to the country.
it’s not easy. If you stay long term in Thailand and your card gets swallowed by the atm, or the account gets compromised, you will be left without money. With a Thau bank account you can get cash without a card.
get your facts straight, the embassy was burned in 2003, when there was no military conflict at the border, and it was due to some bs news article concerning Amgkor Wat that started a riot. Back then the embassy was less protected and the Cambodian government weaker and less capable to protect Thai consular employees than it is today.
Last time they actually fought was in 2011 at Preah Vihar and many soldiers died on both sides without causing mutual pogroms, or the burning of the embassy in Phnom Penh
Kbank has Swift. Been doing international transfer to them for years. From Monday to Friday transfer time is 5-15 minutes from my US and European bank accounts
as long as they visit them several months a year and financially support them you can hardly say they are abandoned. I guess by your criteria the millions of parents on this planet who have to work in another city have abandoned their families.