I have a suspicion that the army of small time traveler blogs/vlogs and influencers have had a combined effect. I don’t have data but I feel the difference in places like Chiang Mai and Vietnam over the last few years. Certainly the sailing blogs that started a few years back had a massive influence on the sailing world (which is my little space)
it’s the Dutch way… 😂. We love rules when we can use them on others, but nothing brightens a dutchy’s day more than when we can break/bend them to cheat and get ahead of others. Have you ever seen Dutch queue in a store? Non stop trickery!
Although unlikely, I wouldn’t rule it completely out based on a story from a friend of mine. He was opening a restaurant as a chef for a big shot in Bangkok and he took some food (ingredients) from the restaurant home to his apartment. A woman working in the restaurant had it out for him, because she wanted to have a higher position in the business and reported him to the police. She was Thai and had connections, and he was arrested, detained for 60 days, and the deported with a 99 yr ban. All because he ‘stole’ some food from a restaurant he worked at…