From Thailand to Japan

Thai visitor to Japan
                                                                 
2012      260,460   Visa Required
2013      453,642   No more Visa
2014      657,570   No more Visa
2015      796,731   No more Visa
2016      +1,000,000 (expected)

Thai Visitor to Europe

2014   219,000 Visa required
2015   246,025 Visa required
2016   ???          Visa required

Japan is reaping the benefit of the obsolete Visa Policy of Europe

This what the European Travel Commission thinks about Visas

from:    http://www.etc-corporate.org/advocacy-visa

Even if long-haul tourists want to come here, and even if they have the means of doing so, many however face the hurdle of securing a visa to visit. Visa obligations can deter legitimate leisure and business tourists due to the complicated processes, processing times and expense associated with obtaining a visa.

Modern travellers show a tendency to shorter booking lead times, and,accordingly,are more likely to choose destinations that require limited planning. 

Europe Visa Free for Thais. Yes or No?

This is the letter that ABOLISH EU VISA FOR THAIS  just mailed to major business leaders in Thailand, to know their opinion about a Visa Free regime for Thais visiting Europe.

June 28th, 2016.

Dear Sir

as a member of the ............-Thai Chamber of Commerce you have relevant ties with Europe, and probably you and your delegates often travel to Europe.  If you or your team are Thais  you have to request a Schenghen Visa.  As you know this process is time consuming, and frankly, useless because vast majority of Thai people visits Europe for a short time mainly for business and shopping.  We, at ABOLISH EU VISA FOR THAIS, are launching a campaign to pressure on EU authorities in Bruxelles and in Bangkok to abolish the visa for Thais, in the mutual interest of Thai and European econmies which would benefit immensely if Thai citizens are allowed to visit Europe without a Visa.

Please let us know your opinion by filling up the enclosed Ballot



I wish Schengen Visa for Thais to be abolished               

I wish Schengen Visa remains  mandatory for Thais


thak you for taking part in this survey

ABOLISH EU VISA FOR THAIS


 

These are the last country allowed to travel to Europe without a Visa, since 2015
TUVALU            population  10,640    GDP 3,880 usd/capita
MARSHAL ISL  population 72, 191   GDP 3,627 usd/capita
MICRONESIA    population 107,154  GDP 3,054 usd/capita
SOLOMON IS     population 523,000 GDP  1,553 usd/capita

Ties with Europe :  almost inexistent.  Migration risk:  High

THAILAND    population 67 million, GDP 5977 usd/capita
Ties with Europe:  high     .  Migration risk : low
WHEN  WILL BE THE TIME FOR THAILAND TO TRAVEL TO EUROPE VISA FREE?
 

Europe Tourism loosing out 500 million baht a year (Thai)

คนไทยกว่า 250,000 คนต่อปีต้องเสียเวลา ยุ่งยาก ในการเดินทางไปทำวีซ่าเพื่อไปยุโรป แต่ยังมีกลุ่มคนอีกมากมายเลือกที่จะไปประเทศที่ไม่ต้องมีวีซ่า อย่าง ญี่ปุ่น เกาหลี อินโดนีเซีย..เป็นต้น
สถานฑูตอิตาลีในประเทศไทยได้รับรายได้กว่า 15,000,000 ยูโร สำหรับค่าธรรมเนียมการทำวีซ่า จำนวนเงินก้อนนี้ไม่ได้เข้าสู่เศรษฐกิจของสหภาพยุโรป แค่เป็นเงินสนับสนุนให้แก่สถานฑูตยุโรปในประเทศไทยเท่านั้น
จะดีกว่าไหม ถ้า...
ถ้าให้คนไทยจำนวน 1,000,000 คนสามารถเดินทางเข้ายุโรปโดยไม่ต้องมีวีซ่า ทุกคนจะใช้จ่า...ยอย่างน้อย 500 ยูโร/คน ในระหว่างการเยือนยุโรป เศรษฐกิจของยุโรปจะได้รับประโยชน์ถึง 500,000,000 ยูโร
แล้วถังขยะของผู้นำเราจะล้นไปด้วยเงินทองจริงหรือไม่

‪#‎euvisa‬
‪#‎euvisaforthai‬

Visa Free effect on economy

This is what happens if we adopt a Visa Free policy in Europe 

 

 

 

Europe Tourism Loosing 500 million Euro per year

Every year about 250,000 Thais are travelling to Europe on a Schengen VISA. Many more would like to go, but they choose other destination "visa free": Japan, Korea, Indonesia,....
Our European Embassies in Bangkok receive every year 15,000,000 Euro on Visa application fees, money that DOES NOT go into the EU economy, but only to support the often useless European diplomacy in Thailand.
If 1,000,000 Thais could travel to Europe every year without the need of a Visa, and they... could spend 500 Euro per person during their visit , the European Economy will benefit of 500,000,000 Euro spent in goods and services in European countries.

So, to cash in 15,000,000 Euro, we trash another 500,000,000 Euro
Our European leaders really have money to trash‪#‎euvisa‬
‪#‎euvisaforthai‬

First Post

Hi there,

our first post of this blog.  I started this blog to push on EU commission to aboilsh the Schengen Visa for Thai citizen visiting Europe .  If you believe that Thais should be allowed Visa free entry to Europe, pleae follow us and follow our facebook page facebook