Jan Kenneth Nesland I remember a Singaporean woman posting that she was travelling to Thailand frequently to vist her Thai boyfriend just for a weekend or 3-4 days at a time. She was pulled up for that and denied entry. I guess an immigration officer might think that someone is running a business in Thailand and returning regularly to check on it. Who knows what they determine as a normal tourist pattern. One trip a year? Two trips a year?

Sky Lar I suspect it was to shut down speculation about her being a bar girl or gold digger and all of the unwanted comments likely to accompany that assumption

Martin Maclean that is not the government gazzette. Still nothing official yet. Only speculation and rumours

Fred Winer Thailand is more about car manufacturing, export of seafood, export of textiles, export of rice, rubber and electronics. Tourism plays a small part of the economy although tourists generally only visit the highly touristed areas and so think this is the case for the whole of Thailand

Mike Gardner how does the uncertainty over the length of visa free entries affect your retirement visa plans? The retirement visa will not be impacted by changes to visa exempt entries used by tourists or those pretending to be tourists

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plus a 30 day extension, bringing their stay to 90 days

Richard Hutton only if they use the visa free option as opposed to applying for the 60 day tourist visa, described by the previous commenter

Sylvester Graydon lots of Australians visit Thailand for less than two weeks, with one week to 10 day visits being common

Tony Walton if you are going to retire here changes to tourist visas wouldn't affect you. Changes to the retirement visa are minimal with only a couple of changes in recent decades

Allan Repp Absolutely, most tourists spend less than two weeks at a time in Thailand