The crazy figures put out by the Thai tourist Authority are ridiculous compared to reality… Pattaya and Phuket are well down and Chiang Mai are saying its the worst they have ever experienced in 10 years. See article Here. Even in Issan and Khon Kaen the North east of Thailand has most definitely been the worst year yet..
But guess what… in crazy Thailand they are still building hotels and apartment buildings that sit empty. Here is an interesting article I came across that may interest some guys. The writer rambles on a bit so I have highlighted the most important sections. Consider an all-to-familiar and often talked about scenario. This foreigner—this farang as he will be known in Thailand—swears to himself that he will not get involved romantically with a hooker; after all, he comes from the West Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Great Britain, the United States, Canada where prostitution and prostitutes are roundly and strongly proscribed.
The man would almost never think of marrying a hooker that he met in a brothel or on the streets of his own country. They are nothing like the prostitutes he has known or heard about in his home country.
Thai hookers have several things going for them. They are younger than any woman he could possibly date at home. Many of them are strikingly attractive, and lovingly small and cuddly, and not at all like the fat women whales in the vernacular of middle-aged men in the West he has come to dislike, especially in the form of ex-wives or lovers. Furthermore, Thai hookers, initially at any rate, seem happily subservient, and full of unbounded love, and they make great love—or so he convinces himself.
Or at least they are not bothered in ways that the farang is familiar with in his own country. The typical man in this all-too-familiar scenario is one who is coming off one or more bad relationships or marriages in his home country, and he is often deeply bitter because he is making heavy child support and alimony payments and often has had to relinquish half or more of total household assets in a divorce settlement.
