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The Miracle of Thailand's Domestic Tourism?

The Miracle of Thailand's Domestic Tourism?

COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the world at large, including Thailand. In terms of tourism, Thailand is second to none in its quality and expertise in the industry. The pandemic has halted the mobility of international visitors to the kingdom, and Thai people, too, are not allowed to easily travel overseas. International tourism has been put on hold by the virus.

The Thai government has come up with a set of initiatives to help the tourism industry in this crisis. One of the schemes is to subsidize the spending of Thai people on domestic tourism, including paying 40% of the airfare. The government expects domestic consumption would help lessen the impacts of the pandemic.

The stimulus measure seems to work extremely well. Thai people now travel to visit many places in Thailand. The infrastructures are there to support the internal tourism. The handouts from the government and the time and resources available seem to make the initiative successful. 

On July 25th and 26th, for example, millions of Thas traveled to many top tourist destinations across the country.

Asean Briefing reported that:

The Thai government has issued stimulus packages worth 22.4 billion baht (US$718 million) to revitalize its tourism industry. The packages are aimed at boosting domestic travel by subsidizing hotel accommodation, airline tickets, and facilities in tourist destinations around the country. International visitors contribute some US$64 billion to the economy annually but foreign arrivals could tumble by 65 percent in 2020 because of the pandemic. In late June 2020, Thailand’s government approved two stimulus packages worth 22.4 billion baht (US$718 million), aimed at revitalizing the country’s tourism industry.

One of the factors leading to the success of Thailand's tourism industry lies in its ability to handle the speed of the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has chosen Thailand and New Zealand for a film documentary on successful models for handling and curbing Covid-19 (The Bangkok Post, July 23rd, 2020).


The sum of tourism is a combination of domestic and international tourism. Tourism is also about going out and coming in (inbound and outbound tourism). Under the given circumstance, what each state can do is to promote internal consumption. The limitation of human movement at the international level means the economic strength of each state is defined by its social capiltal as well as the ability to manage natural resources.


References

1. ASEAN Briefing (July 9th, 2020). 'Thailand Issues Stimulus Packages to Boost Domestic Tourism' Retrieved from
https://www.aseanbriefing.com/news/thailand-issues-stimulus-packages-boost-domestic-tourism/

2. The Bangkok Post (July 23rd, 2020) 'Thailand to be star player in Covid success story'
Retrieved from https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1955827/thailand-to-be-star-player-in-covid-success-story-doco

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Post-Method and Post-humanism

ELT in the era of Post-Method and Post-humanism

Technology and Society

This note is a result of my brief meditation at Panya Asom, the Pavillion of Wisdom, located in my garden. Every evening, I would sip tea and reflect on current and past news and events that I have heard or read. I then jot down on a piece of paper before putting it on the Internet like this one.

Sometimes, I could not find any idea worth hitting jotting down. 

Technology involves not only new tools and functions but new paradigms.

 

Technology has significantly revolutionized our society, including education and learning. In has transformed the landscape and terrains of our geography and society, affecting our way of life, how we live, relate to one another, and find meaning in existence.

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The Mind and The Body

The Mind and The Body

Janpha Thadphoothon

One of the questions humans have been investigating and discussing is the quality of mind and body. Convention has it that the mind is the master of the body. The mind can control the body e.g. you can control the movement of your fingers and hands.

What is harder is the control of the mind. St Augustine wrote in the Confessions that:

"Yet the mind is mind, whereas the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, the mind is itself, but it does not do it. ... The mind I say commands itself to will: it would not give the command unless it willed: yet it does not do what it commands."

(p. 141)

St Augustine reasoned that the mind needs a will to be a command. The mind disobeys the command because it does not will.