The Death of the Full Moon Party
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The Death of the Full Moon Party
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Re: The Death of the Full Moon Party
#2The article mentions Thailand's plan to invite long-stay tourists willing to go through a 14-day quarantine on arrival. It was supposed to start this week, but was pushed back at last minute, officially because the arrangements were not ready but quite probably because they couldn't actually find enough interest. (In addition to the quarantine, you can only arrive by dedicated chartered aircraft!?)
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thailand-foreign-t...
Re: The Death of the Full Moon Party
#3The article mentions Thailand's plan to invite long-stay tourists willing to go through a 14-day quarantine on arrival. It was supposed to start this week, but was pushed back at last minute, officially because the arrangements were not ready but quite probably because they couldn't actually find enough interest. (In addition to the quarantine, you can only arrive by dedicated chartered aircraft!?) https://www.channe…
After years of being against all of those visa-runners and digital nomads of all kinds I am a bit skeptical of Thai goverment actually wanting long-stay tourists.
Re: The Death of the Full Moon Party
#4This is very good news.
Full moon parties are not the stuff of legend, but rather the lowest point of party tourism in Thailand.
Although I think that, give it 5 years, something similar will pop-up somewhere in SEA.
Re: The Death of the Full Moon Party
#5This is very good news. Full moon parties are not the stuff of legend, but rather the lowest point of party tourism in Thailand. Although I think that, give it 5 years, something similar will pop-up somewhere in SEA.
Maybe. Maybe not. Love Parade died out too with no replacement
Re: The Death of the Full Moon Party
#6The article mentions Thailand's plan to invite long-stay tourists willing to go through a 14-day quarantine on arrival. It was supposed to start this week, but was pushed back at last minute, officially because the arrangements were not ready but quite probably because they couldn't actually find enough interest. (In addition to the quarantine, you can only arrive by dedicated chartered aircraft!?) https://www.channe…
After years of being against all of those visa-runners and digital nomads of all kinds I am a bit skeptical of Thai goverment actually wanting long-stay tourists.
"Long" here is a 90-day visa renewable twice, so max 270 days. So no, they definitely don't want people to migrate permanently.
Re: The Death of the Full Moon Party
#7The article mentions Thailand's plan to invite long-stay tourists willing to go through a 14-day quarantine on arrival. It was supposed to start this week, but was pushed back at last minute, officially because the arrangements were not ready but quite probably because they couldn't actually find enough interest. (In addition to the quarantine, you can only arrive by dedicated chartered aircraft!?) https://www.channe…
After years of being against all of those visa-runners and digital nomads of all kinds I am a bit skeptical of Thai goverment actually wanting long-stay tourists.
Unpopular opinion: If you're a "digital nomad", you're not a tourist. You're working.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
After years of being against all of those visa-runners and digital nomads of all kinds I am a bit skeptical of Thai goverment actually wanting long-stay tourists.
Unpopular opinion: If you're a "digital nomad", you're not a tourist. You're working.
That's true by definition? But you're probably not displacing jobs for the locals, which is the typical justification for why it's hard for foreigners to get local work permits.
Re: The Death of the Full Moon Party
#9This is very good news. Full moon parties are not the stuff of legend, but rather the lowest point of party tourism in Thailand. Although I think that, give it 5 years, something similar will pop-up somewhere in SEA.
I agree. Unfortunately, equivalents already exist in many places: Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan... with Vietnam well on the way.
Re: The Death of the Full Moon Party
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unpopular opinion: If you're a "digital nomad", you're not a tourist. You're working.
That's true by definition? But you're probably not displacing jobs for the locals, which is the typical justification for why it's hard for foreigners to get local work permits.
"by definition" always depends on the definition. Tax laws, immigration, I'd say all our reality isn't updated to "people working remotely".
If you detach your job from your (real) environment, this introduces all kinds of issues. You don't pay the share to one of the societies you're embedded into, like taxes. You'd have to be registered as workforce - which you're not, if you're a tourist.