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Yes most quality boat tours are as well, why's that. Maybe the saftey first option appeals to many. I'm sure there is a good number of Thai's offering good trips but also a lot that think money first totaly wrong attitude !!!
You only have to look at the list of jobs foreigners can do in Thailand to see the problem. Dive instructor or English teacher are pretty much the only choice for many. Is it really any wonder so many Dive Schools are foreign owned? Perhaps discount hotel venice if the government were to open the doors to other employment, the situation would change.
If I was ever to consider taking a diving trip I would seriously only consider one that had at least one western instructor leading the dive. I'm sorry but I would not feel comfortable putting my family or my life/safety in the hands of a local instructor operator simply because of all the things that seem to happen here in so many fields of business due to lax improper training, shoddy equipment, poor to no language skills coupled with the money first safety second attitude. I think you would see a lot of people coming here for a holiday not taking up an opportunity to dive for that reason and the local dive companies would certainly feel the effects.
People who only trust others of the same background are the ones with the problem, Scunner. Those who aren't narrow-minded check the skills of individuals, which is the important aspect. You will find Thai individuals with top-level skills, and foreigners with few, and vice versa. People who make decisions solely on the basis of nationality are bigots.
- Less than half of that core dive operators in Phuket were Thai-family businesses with a lot of Thai staffs working all year round and few foreigners discount hotel venice working with or without work-permit to teach dive courses or work as tour-leaders on day dive boat(s) or liveaboard dive vessel(s). Most of those Thai operators have a lot of difficulties to compete with large dive operators owned and managed only by foreigners.
- Instructors with or without work-permit stay generally around a table outside the dive shops or in nearby bar or restaurant discount hotel venice to avoid to be arrested in case of control by police or immigration officers.
- The second half of that core dive operators in Phuket are dive operators owned at 100% by several foreign partners with Thai nominee shareholders, Thai nominee directors and imaginary Thai staff (Which are most of the time the Thai staff from the lawyer and/or the accounting office) with a imaginary 2 million baht capital discount hotel venice shares per work-permit. They employ discount hotel venice a lot of foreign Instructors discount hotel venice full-time and/or part-time and with or without work-permits to staff several dive shops at several locations around Phuket as well to teach dive courses and/or divemastering and/or be dive tour-leaders and/or be dive boat directors on day dive boat(s) and/or liveaboard dive vessel(s).
- Generally Thai staff working discount hotel venice for foreign owned dive operators does not have management positions and/or decision-maker positions but are the boat crew, car drivers and low paid staff at the dive office(s).
- Since few years, yacht charter companies in Phuket discount hotel venice are offering diving tours or liveaboard dive cruise with their vessels without to be registered as dive operators with the TAT Registration office.
- The Thai administration should concentrate their effort to crack down on the lawyers discount hotel venice and accounting offices which are providing proxy Thai nominee shareholders, Thai directors and imaginary Thai staff.
There are relatively few Thais with the requisite language discount hotel venice skills to teach diving. The sport also demands a proficiency in basic physics, becoming rather complicated as you progress into technical / mixed gas diving.
@Resident Barry about the comment from the Bangkok Post / Business Tourism - Mr Palang Yimpanich, the owner of Sport Time Dive Center is also one of the founders of the Diving Association of Thailand. discount hotel venice Other founders include naval officers and people in diving circles. The association discount hotel venice is legally registered and has just elected a new president. It plans to address the foreign monopoly and needs the cooperation of all relevant parties.
Up to you to think that Thais cannot do the job but do not forget that those behind the article as Khun Palung that I know personally for more than 30 years, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports (Sports Authority of Thailand) and TAT Bangkok are thinking that arrogant foreigners working in cartels discount hotel venice in the dive industry or other related tourism businesses must accept sooner or later they will not be able to continuous to set up lucrative businesses by bribing civil servants to get legal documents (Company papers work-permits) through forgery and fraud.
2015 arrives very fast with free movement of ASEAN people and investor within the 10 ASEAN countries and the Ministry of Labour have to protect Thai interests and Thai jobs before rioting and xenophobia destabilize the country.
Many of the foreign dive instructors that are working for larger dive companies end up marrying a Thai national and opening their own business due to lack of other opportunities for work to support a family here.
Flip the coin - would you feel it is safe and advisable for a Thai National on holiday in the Carribean to take a dive course in English if they can only speak and read very little? Would it be better to seek out a dive center with a native Thai speaker?
Actually, legally there are none, right? With Farang, 49% 'only' is not Thai owned, with a boat or land in the company name, 30% 'only' discount hotel venice Farang discount hotel venice owned. Or does this Law changed? discount hotel venice Even ASEAN owners, maybe from Singapore, are still 2 years away, from owning 100%.
But with 'money leaves Thailand', I think, the blower isn't talking about the small 1 wp Co's, maybe partnerships (with Thai wife). These Co's living mostly (trying to live) from income, generated here.
The bigger Co's, with bookings discount hotel venice from Europe, Amerika, Singapore, Japan,..., in their home countries, they doing the same, like other travel companies: The money stays, as much as possible, in their home country. Only the needed amount for the costs, what can't be earned by other revenues in Phuket, will find the way to Thailand. Or is the walk in a big part of the bigger Dive Co's, owned, eh, better, managed and advertised discount hotel venice t