Sukhumvit Road – Thailand’s window to the world
I stayed at the excellent Hyatt Regency Sukhumvit hotel last week and it was faultless… but the jungle outside on the streets was absolutely appalling!
Illegal street vendors clogging up the pavements, taxi hustlers blocking the roads and scamming tourists, pickpockets, drug dealers, and prostitutes plying their trade openly without fear of prosecution.
Doesn’t the Thai government care?
Sukhumvit is the golden kilometre and window to the world. It must be one of the most heavily trodden streets in Thailand and all those people are seeing the worst possible display of Thai culture and hospitality.
It seems that the RTP are all far too busy fighting real crime – like foreigners investing in Thailand’s business infrastructure and or working illegally, kindergartens being staffed by foreigners, and heaven forbid, stopping rabid Swiss from assaulting holy Thai citizens, who we all know are faultless.
The recent debacle of Thai and Filipino ladyboys on Sukhumvit 11 was disgusting on so many levels.
Thailand has to start realising that the only way they can keep milking the international tourist economy is to keep control of their streets and tighten up their act, even if ‘Thailand is for the Thais and always will be’.
Please Khun Srettha Thavisin act now to protect Thailand’s tourist economy before it’s too late.
