I enjoy staying at The One Resort in Koh Rong Samloen. You take the speed ferry out, and then they pick you up on their little boat to bring you and your bags the several hundred meters to the resort. The boat guy phones the resort and they're there waiting for you on the beach, and welcome you.
Once I check in, I like to hang around the pool and drink cold beer, go swimming, chat with other people, etc. Throughout the day you will see more people arrive. All of the Westerners show up excited to hang by the pool, order lunch, swim in the ocean, etc. The Chinese (and to a lesser extent the Vietnamese) will show up with a bungalow booked for 2 (or 4) with 6-8 people, planning to pack into it for the night. They'll have cases of water and beer, and bags of styrofoam containers. They enter like a hot mess, start eating their own food, and seem to take over the place. But then they disappear to their room, and you hardly see them again (except for lots of posing on the water's edge around the time that the sun is setting). I've seen this routine almost every time I've stayed there. As a hotelier, I imagine it is extremely hard to deal with clients that continually arrive with three times the number of guests the room is designed for, and bringing all of their own food, drinks, etc.
How to attract chinese tourists?
" All of the Westerners show up excited to hang by the pool"Miguelito wrote:I enjoy staying at The One Resort in Koh Rong Samloen. You take the speed ferry out, and then they pick you up on their little boat to bring you and your bags the several hundred meters to the resort. The boat guy phones the resort and they're there waiting for you on the beach, and welcome you.
Once I check in, I like to hang around the pool and drink cold beer, go swimming, chat with other people, etc. Throughout the day you will see more people arrive. All of the Westerners show up excited to hang by the pool, order lunch, swim in the ocean, etc. The Chinese (and to a lesser extent the Vietnamese) will show up with a bungalow booked for 2 (or 4) with 6-8 people, planning to pack into it for the night. They'll have cases of water and beer, and bags of styrofoam containers. They enter like a hot mess, start eating their own food, and seem to take over the place. But then they disappear to their room, and you hardly see them again (except for lots of posing on the water's edge around the time that the sun is setting). I've seen this routine almost every time I've stayed there. As a hotelier, I imagine it is extremely hard to deal with clients that continually arrive with three times the number of guests the room is designed for, and bringing all of their own food, drinks, etc.
sounds real fun
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Well, apparently the way to attract Chinese tourists is to evict local tenants and "development more than 5 square kilometres on Preah Sihanouk province’s Ochheuteal Beach", according to the Post, Evictions sweep away Sihanoukville beach businesses
Funny that "local authorities remain in the dark about what company is behind the development."
They'll be missing the "good old days" of drunken white sexpats and Russian mobsters soon.
Funny that "local authorities remain in the dark about what company is behind the development."
They'll be missing the "good old days" of drunken white sexpats and Russian mobsters soon.
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Go to the costume shop near the monument on Sihanouk blvd and get some monster teeth that stick out and some yellow facepaint. Put these on and stand outside your business.CFSA wrote: My.question: what is an effective cheap way to market your business to such demographic?
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That does seem the logical outcome if the current trend continues.Baconroll wrote:down by the sea for the last one and a half years there have been Chinese package tourists that just went to their bus stop restaurant for a meal and there have been small groups of independent family looking groups who would frequent the low cost Khmer restaurants ( aimed at Westerners ) but as more Chinese owned independent restaurants open the locally owned places have that lost custom. Next to the most popular Khmer/Western place down Occheauteal was a Korean restaurant which after being on the corner plot and massive and empty moved to where it is now. One year ago it was always empty now every night its full of either Koreans (southerners probably) or Chinese _ I can not tell the difference...
the point here is once there is demand for Chinese restaurants selling Chinese versions of Chinese food expect the Chinese Business owners to move it and provide it. They will likely offer the land lord twice or thrice the rent being paid by the current tenant and they will be out regardless of the lease they think will avoid this...
And the same will eventually happen in Kampot & Kep
By paying 2-3x normal rents, they are highly exposed to the Chinese tourist market. If for any reason that dried up, (China debt bubble implodes, Yuan devalues etc), I expect they'd walk away from their rental premises pretty quickly.
Eventually, discontent amongst local small business owners may force the government to tighten up on the types of businesses that can be owned by foreigners, and the types of jobs that qualify for work permits.
Let us look logically at the Chinese invasion: they travel using Chinese airlines, they go from airport to Chinese owned hotels using Chinese owned buses with Chinese drivers, they eat at Chinese restaurants, they buy from Chinese shops, they play in Chinese casinos, they even bang Chinese chicks .... what money they leave in this country? Nada, Zero. So brother you wanna Chinese customers? Get a Chinese wife ...
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Not exactly marketing 101.
give them free shots of baijiu (pretend it has tiger penis in, just lizard or sth)- get them singing Karaoke, watermelon, snaxks etc - they will spend a fortune.
white people speaking chinese not too well is great. asians speaking non-fluent chinese is not appreciated.
karaoke, massage, hookers
perfect
drugs, k, metghs, smack sometimes - just gotta reas the customer and where they r from
give them free shots of baijiu (pretend it has tiger penis in, just lizard or sth)- get them singing Karaoke, watermelon, snaxks etc - they will spend a fortune.
white people speaking chinese not too well is great. asians speaking non-fluent chinese is not appreciated.
karaoke, massage, hookers
perfect
drugs, k, metghs, smack sometimes - just gotta reas the customer and where they r from
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Signs ins Chinese
Free, Free, Free offers. 50c beers
drink 20, get a steak free.
same as west except, crap karaoke, poker room round the back and maseeueses/ hookers, preferably underage ad white-skinned.
jet-ski/jewellry etc for the goldiging wives to spend the johns money on whilst hes 2 stroking the hoor
Free, Free, Free offers. 50c beers
drink 20, get a steak free.
same as west except, crap karaoke, poker room round the back and maseeueses/ hookers, preferably underage ad white-skinned.
jet-ski/jewellry etc for the goldiging wives to spend the johns money on whilst hes 2 stroking the hoor
He was talking Chinese, not Belgians.AnassRamaIV wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:16 pmSigns ins Chinese
Free, Free, Free offers. 50c beers
drink 20, get a steak free.
same as west except, crap karaoke, poker room round the back and maseeueses/ hookers, preferably underage ad white-skinned.
jet-ski/jewellry etc for the goldiging wives to spend the johns money on whilst hes 2 stroking the hoor
If you want to make money on Chinese tourists your best bet is at the top of the market.
There is not a lot of money in tour groups and independent travel mostly consists of family visits atm.
Why earn 10c on a beer when you sell them bottles of whiskey for $200?
And you can just refill the bottle with any cheap stuff, more then half will add coke anyway and almost none of them can tell the difference between a fine malt and JW. Certainly not at the time they start buying bottles of whiskey
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If you really want to make money from the Chinese, then you had best ignore the roaming peasants from Mainland China, and concentrate on the more civilised ones from Singapore, Malaysia, or Hong Kong (1.0)
I was out drinking with a group of SingSing Chinks one evening last week, half dozen bottles of $145 per bottle red wine, followed by a bottle of $500 whiskey - which went great with the 3,000r per kilo salty deep fried pig skins we were snacking on at the time ...
I was out drinking with a group of SingSing Chinks one evening last week, half dozen bottles of $145 per bottle red wine, followed by a bottle of $500 whiskey - which went great with the 3,000r per kilo salty deep fried pig skins we were snacking on at the time ...
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