Tourists in Udon

I know that Udon has a plan to try and attract some more international flights that will lead to an increase in tourism. Flights also lead to a higher end market.

There is also a plan to partner Udon (Ban Chiang) with Luang Prabang and a UNESCO world heritage site in Vietnam. They want to market it as a world heritage triangle. Bangkok Air has been quite successful in marketing itself as serving world heritage sites. I believe there is a trend around the world in marketing and pairing up UNESCO sites as more touristic attractions. This "world heritage triangle" will also lead to more high end tourists as they will probably be package tourists flying between the locations.

I believe that the international tourism is growing in Udon largely due to the farang that are living here. For a variety of reasons including people visiting friends living here as well as all the tourist services that have developed for the residential farang here. I think the growth in residential farang is around 30% a year.

Someone was mentioning that as more and more tourists are coming here a higher percentage are undesirables. It has been noted many times on this forum that there has been a decline in the quality of farang coming to Udon. Talking to many locals they have also noted this in the past few years.

rocket2 wrote:Someone was mentioning that as more and more tourists are coming here a higher percentage are undesirables. It has been noted many times on this forum that there has been a decline in the quality of farang coming to Udon. Talking to many locals they have also noted this in the past few years.

A friend of mine who lives in Udon said the same, he calls them the Singha Beer Vest Brigade. A few Thailand forums are mentioning Udon is a great place to monger.

[/quote]A friend of mine who lives in Udon said the same, he calls them the Singha Beer Vest Brigade. A few Thailand forums are mentioning Udon is a great place to monger.[/quote]

I like it.

It embarrases me when I see older farangs walking around town in shorts & vests. Don't they realise how ridiculous they look. This is not England. Please dress a little bit more respectfully, and behave a bit nicer. Thanks

Someone was mentioning that as more and more tourists are coming here a higher percentage are undesirables. It has been noted many times on this forum that there has been a decline in the quality of farang coming to Udon. Talking to many locals they have also noted this in the past few years.

Yes, it is indeed a great shame that more and more of the wrong types are coming to Udon and for the wrong reasons.

A few Thailand forums are mentioning Udon is a great place to monger

I don't believe it is. From my observations, the choices are very limited, particularly compared with other places with names beginning with "P".

I'm not sure where ''desiresble'' ends and ''undesireable'' begins .I think those terms are not specific enough for conversing about!

For me,''undesireable'' has nothing to do with wearing short pants,more to do with the cleanliness than length,unless you are talking about ''hot pants''!

When I think of ''falang undesireables'',I think of loud mouthed individuals unconcerned with the environment about them,falangs that are obviously drunk in public a lot of the time.scammers and those that care nothing about how they appear to The Thais!Anyone acting in a manner that draws a negative response from the Thai community.A falang acting in a way that makes me feel ashamed to be a falang in Thailand,is considered an ""undesireable'' to me !!