Culture and Communication in Thailand (Communication, Culture and Change in Asia)

Second episode,“Do Chinese tourists have no culture?”discussed by Ajahn

Wiroj Tangwanich, an expert in Chinese Studies and President of the Thai

Tourist Guides Association, Mr. Wiroj Litprasertnan.https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=g50OirEAUfDQ, accessed July 15, 2015.

3. Three episodes of“Kon Dang Nang Clear”(A Celeb comes to explain) program
   on YouTube discussing cross-cultural relations with China with a Thai expert in
   Chinese studies, Ajahn Wiroj Tangwanich.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
   50Wre7xiflU, accessed July 15, 2015.


4. Kom Chad Luek’s“Chinese tourists in Thailand”program online.http://wwwl.
   youtube.com/watch?v=V20Ts7rFDHA, accessed July 15, 2015, discussed by
   Ms.Gigi Louis Kua, manager of Jiaranai Entertainment Ltd.; Mr. Woroj
   Litprasertnan, President of Thai Tourist Guides Association and Mr. Suriya
   Charoenphol, a Chinese instructor, Center for Tourist Guide training, Naresuan
   University.


5. The Chinese tourists accused of bad behavior in Thailand/Channel 4 news.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2fbj3hepoE, accessed July 15, 2015.


6. Online newspapers that report about the Thai tourism industry and Chinese
   tourists, such as the Bangkok Post online, the British Dailymail online, and the
   China Daily.
   To counter balance, discussions online about Thai tourists abroad have been
   studied as well. A few blogs on pantip.com were selected. They are as follows:


7. Do Thai tourists abroad behave the same way as the Chinese tourists?http://
   http://www.pantip.com/topic/31593232, accessed July 16, 2015;


8. For Thai tourists in Japanhttp://www.pantip.com/topic/31730724andhttp://
   http://www.pantip.com/topic/31730724/page2, accessed July 16, 2015;


9. Silence and listenhttp://www.dailynews.co.th/article/283310, accessed July 16,
   2015;


10. Ten Thai behaviors that you should not do when you are abroad, http://
    travelling-ok.exteen.com/20130313/entry, accessed July 16, 2015.

5.2.7 General Observations

A general description about the Chinese tourists derived from the key informants in
the new media and social media under study reads as follows:
During the past two decades, large groups of Chinese tourists from Mainland
China have used Thailand as their tourist destination. Popular destinations are
Chiang Mai, the capital of the North, the coastal areas along the Andaman Sea and
the South China Sea. The Chinese have chosen Phuket, Pattaya, and Bangkok as
their destination for decades. In recent years, even more Mainlandersflock to
Chiang Mai, mainly because of the success of the comedyfilm,“Lost in Thailand.”
Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai are relatively small and cannot cope easily with the

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