Who creates tourist panic in Thailand?

Nonsense for eyeballs!

Talking about the rumor that a female tourist from China was handcuffed while traveling in a Thai men's model shop, Wang He, CEO of Feixiang Travel, told City Circle that it was groundless.

Recently, Wang He has been investigating the tourism products of Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries, and the business of male model shops is too good to rank. I have never heard of such a thing happening to overseas tourists.

In February this year, when Southeast Asia just opened group tours, many stars and online celebrities went to Thailand to punch in. But just one month later, Thailand was interpreted on the Internet as badland equivalent to North Myanmar and the Golden Triangle. Many tourists are surprised: how did all this happen?

Nana is the manager of a travel agency in Shanghai. She is going to take two groups to Bangkok soon. Now she gets a lot of inquiries every day, and she is very upset. The content is the same: can you ensure your own safety? Who will bear the loss if we leave the group now?

Among the tourists and suppliers, Nana saw that everyone was discussing the Gayaozi incident all day. What's different is that tourists are forwarding growing horror stories, while the industry group is full of angry abuse.

Several individual travelers really quit the group for this reason. The fact that the state has not issued a ban cannot be regarded as force majeure. We can't refund tourists for this, and everyone is still very unhappy. What makes Nana angry is the bloggers who are still spreading the postgraduate entrance examination online. After waiting for three years, the tourism market just got up and was destroyed by them.

This sudden travel panic in Thailand began half a month ago, and the initiator was a cardiologist Lin Lin. On March 9th, he released a video titled "American Cyber Army Moves to Southeast Asia" in Mile Mile and Tik Tok, setting a bloody trap for women.

Browsing UP master's previous video styles, you will find that the themes generally come from social news and geopolitics. Conspiracy theory, which is just right, specious and difficult to prove, is the communication password designed by UP owner for video.

Lin Lin, a cardiologist, released a 30-minute video of adding drugs in Thailand, and the style of conspiracy theory is consistent. He threw out a number of sensational events: male model restaurants lured consumers, abducted women into fraudulent companies, bought and sold human organs and so on. These keywords are in line with netizens' imagination of lawless places for many years and the legend of the dark city that emerged from them.

On March 24th, the video of cardiologist Lin Lin about Thailand was deleted simultaneously on all platforms. However, before it was deleted, the video about Bi Li had been read 680,000 times and received more than 2 million likes on Tik Tok.

Although the video is easy to delete, it is difficult to delete the platform at the same time because of the panic of traveling in Thailand. The details of horror stories are constantly polished; The topic of Thailand's tourism safety is constantly rushing to Weibo for hot search.

In the panic that flows around, the weakest performance is the first-line impression and clarification from all sides.

For example, Dr. Lilac published a popular science article, saying that the so-called kidney transplantation with roasted kidneys is extremely difficult and difficult to match. It is necessary to check the virus infection in the blood of donors, and do a good job in the adaptation of recipient screening, cancer screening, infection screening and immunosuppressants. This process is usually a natural barrier between kidney donors and recipients.

However, under these articles, many netizens chose to turn a blind eye: there is no kidney source, which can be stored in traffickers and used when needed.

There is a blogger @Sukeytong in Little Red Book who just returned from Phuket. She said that she had spent money in a men's model shop, and there was no safety problem. She is just worried that male models are all neutral and can't see handsome guys.

Below the article, the most praised comments are exactly the same: haven't you been handcuffed? Even if the blogger answers, it is not too difficult to transfer a foreigner to another country to get married. The netizens in the comment area are still not to be outdone, and the doubts are surging. Rumors become traffic passwords.

Jiang Yang has lived in Thailand for many years. Based on his three-year field experience in Thailand, he told City Boundary that there have been some changes in public security in Thailand recently, but it is not tourists who are mainly affected. However, these news may have formed the source of spreading the false legend of Kao Yao Zi in China.

In recent years, many people who used to make ashes in Cambodia have moved their business to Thailand. This led to a number of public security incidents in Thailand where Chinese were blackmailed, but the main cause of the incident was economic disputes. Jacky Jiang observed.

In addition, recent telecom fraud cases in Southeast Asia and northern Myanmar have also frequently appeared in newspapers. Jacky Jiang revealed that it is not easy to go to Myanmar directly from China at present, and many people with vague ideas will choose to cross the Myanmar-Thailand border. Therefore, people will also imagine the place where some vicious incidents occurred as Thailand.

In addition, due to transit problems, some people will collect some fake identity cards in Thailand and engage in the sales of gray products such as fraud, money laundering and lending. Because of this, the local police are focusing on cracking down on related incidents, and sometimes they will check China people's passports from time to time in the glorious district of downtown Bangkok. Jacky Jiang said that if you simply travel to Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and other places, tourists will basically not be bothered by these problems. Tourism in Thailand is still very safe.

As for the male model shop, it is an important part of Thailand's tourism and customs industry. If it is not safe, how can so many locals dare to go? Jiang Yang asked.

But on the network side, these events have been spread beyond recognition by many bloggers. For example, the Thai police routinely check their documents, which is interpreted by the police as extortion and even kidnapping China tourists.

On platforms such as Little Red Book and Tik Tok, talking about security risks in Thailand has become the most effective traffic password for bloggers.

On March 24th, "City Boundary" searched for Thailand tourism in Xiaohongshu. The raiders and travel experience sharing that should have appeared were replaced by persuasion videos, and many of them were praised by tens of thousands. Click on the videos of bloggers, and you will see that their styles and narrative methods are basically the same as those of cardiologist Lin Lin.

On the Internet, Thailand has slipped from a resort to a crime paradise. Recently, all parties involved in tourism in Thailand are busy with urgent rumors.

On March 2 1 day, the Cabinet Government of Thailand held a special discussion on Thailand's security image at the regular meeting. Anucha, the first spokesman of the Thai Prime Minister's Office, said: Prime Minister Ba Yu expressed concern about the smear remarks spread on the Chinese-Thai Internet recently. Recently, the fake news of Zhongtai.com has caused great harm to Thailand's tourism, investment and other related fields. Online copywriting about tourists being imprisoned, transferred, sold or caught in other dangerous situations after arriving in Thailand has never happened in Thailand, and the security environment in Thailand is still at the normal level recognized by the world without any warning.

The National Tourism Administration of Thailand subsequently released Weibo: Rumors stop with wise men. How many people have been honked by illiterate black bloggers before being honked!

However, these rumors do not seem to have much effect. Although all parties have come forward to explain, netizens still don't buy it. More and more tourism itself has been labeled as dangerous.

On the other hand, on platforms such as Tik Tok, some bloggers have released videos of security risks in Thailand, which generally get huge hits, and thriller is the biggest traffic password of these broadcasters.

For example, a blogger said: A few days ago, a friend went to Thailand to get a postgraduate diploma and got off the plane to take a taxi. The driver thought that China people didn't understand Thai, so he called directly and said that three people here wanted organs. Similar videos have won tens of thousands of likes in Tik Tok.

For these phenomena, Jiang Yang felt very helpless. The biggest winner of this wave of panic is the marketing number, which uses people's strange psychology of not going abroad for a long time to harvest traffic. However, tourism in Southeast Asia has always been a mixed bag of fish and dragons, and there is no such thing as absolute safety. But as long as you do it well, you can get a quality experience. Is it too expensive to go?

Suddenly involved in this wave of Thailand tourism panic, Nana felt angry, but more puzzled. According to the statistics of Thailand Tourism Bureau, the number of tourists from China to Thailand in 201000000 reached 65438. So many people have been to Thailand, how can the rumors of Gayazi have such a big market?

For many years, Thailand has been a favorite holiday paradise for tourists all over the world. However, the recent rapid blackening of Thailand is not only fueled by online celebrities, but also related to the decline of Thailand's own tourism experience.

Some time ago, Thailand was too expensive to go and rushed to Weibo for hot search. Some tourists who took the lead in Thailand in February said that Thailand's hotels, prices and service prices have all increased significantly, and it is no longer the best choice for poor travel.

In this regard, Wang He told City Boundary that traveling to Thailand now is about 50% more expensive than a few years ago. In the past, a single person could play in Thailand for five or six days for 3,000 yuan, but now it is about 5,000 yuan, and the price of free travel is similar to that of group tour.

Among them, the main reason comes from the rise in air ticket prices. A few years ago, the round-trip air tickets to Bangkok and Chiang Mai were about10.5 million yuan-10.8 million yuan. The current price can only be one way at most.

The person in charge of Ctrip's ticket told City Boundary that the average price of Ctrip's outbound ticket in March was 2 124 yuan, which was 5 1.5% lower than the same period last year. Among them, Chiang Mai was selected as the most affordable TOP3 destination, living in Thailand's most affordable destination TOP 1, and the average one-way air ticket price 1632 yuan. However, the overall price decline rate is hardly optimistic, which is related to the difficulty in increasing the number of flights in the short term. At present, the number of outbound flights is still slowly recovering.

A few years ago, I spent five or six days in Thailand. If two people travel together and stay in a good hotel, they will cost about 2400 yuan. Local catering and sightseeing projects in Thailand have always been very cheap.

Recently, however, Wang He saw that hotel prices in Thailand rose by about 30% as a whole. Some people speculate that this is because Thailand's tourism industry has not been open for three years, but has been open for three years, hoping to realize rapid realization. Wang He said that this speculation is not true. If there are no tourists, hotels can't raise prices if they want to. Everything is still determined by supply and demand.

Wang He revealed: The main reason is that there are many foreign tourists in Thailand recently and the hotel occupancy rate is high. In particular, guests from Russia, India and the Middle East are on vacation, which makes the hotel occupancy rate reach 80%-90%.

March-April is generally not only the tourist season in Thailand, but also the rising cycle of traditional hotels. Every year from June 5438+00 to April of the following year, many Russians come to Thailand for their holidays. They have long holidays and low consumption in Pattaya and Phuket, Thailand. Many people will stay for a month. In addition, Thailand has done a lot of tourism promotion in India this year, and the number of Indian tourists has also increased rapidly. Wang He explained.

If the package tour is adopted, the price will not drop rapidly in the short term because the bus, restaurant and ground connection services for tour groups in Thailand have not been fully restored.

All these factors have affected the willingness of China tourists to travel to Thailand. When outbound travel was just released, Thailand Airport boldly predicted that 7 million to 6,543,800,000 China tourists would land in Bangkok in 2023. However, from June 65438+ 1 October1to February 2 this year, Thailand only received 65438+million tourists from China.

Wang He recently saw in Bangkok and Phuket that there are really fewer people in China. The main reason is that the air tickets are expensive, the flights are few, and the group tour has not yet started.

Wang He is optimistic about the next changes. After April and May, when Russia enters summer, the price in Thailand will come down. May Day and summer vacation, there may be a small peak of travel, but the price may remain at around 6000 yuan in the short term. However, even if Thailand's tourism prices are adjusted back in the future, the global labor costs are rising in the medium and long term, and it is inevitable that Thailand's tourism will rise slightly.

Although the situation of traveling to Thailand for two or three thousand yuan may never return. However, in the data provided by Ctrip, Thailand and Bangkok are still the TOP 1 destinations of countries and cities searched by the platform in recent 7 days, benefiting from comprehensive services and travel experience.

In addition, if we want to consider the flat products of Thailand tour, Xie Xiaoqing, a senior researcher at Ctrip Research Institute, told Market Boundary: From the perspective of air tickets, some Southeast Asian destinations are more affordable. According to the average price of one-way air tickets booked by Ctrip in March, Phnom Penh, Manila, Chiang Mai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are the most affordable TOP5 destinations, and the average price of one-way air tickets ranges from118438+081yuan.

From the perspective of cost performance, Wang He suggested that tourists can travel more to Malaysia in the near future. The price of its group tour and free travel is comparable to that of Thailand, which can be around four or five thousand.

After April, Sabah opened direct flights. Thailand is rainy from April to 10. At this time, the rainy season in Malaysia has passed, and it is only about 23 degrees at night. The sea in Malaysia is also beautiful. Of course, especially for China tourists, there is no so-called public security problem in Malaysia.

(Nana and Jiang Yang are pseudonyms.