Thailand Nightlife Picture & Photo

Nightlife became a big issue in Thailand about 50 years ago when the first tourists moved in from all over the globe to enjoy the open minded atmosphere on great Thailand nightlife, actually cultivated already since at least 200 years before, somehow similar to Penang Malaysia about 700 km further down in the south.

In recent years, new restaurants, bars and nightlife venues, spurred on by development activity, money poured in from all over Thailand, making the local people nervous since this is creeping into their habitat.

New hotels, condominiums and nightlife entertainment venues created an environment where nightlife can thrive.

A vibrant nightlife, just look at the pictures,  every day of the week, now from 8 pm to about 2 am. Until last year -2007-  it was almost a 24 hour business and its still growing dramatically.

In Thailand if someone opens a bar, nightclub, sushi bar or whatever it immediately turns into a snowball effect, because if one Thai person see a other making that kind of investment, 10 others around the corner just try to do the same, not understanding that if there is enough business for maybe two, doesn't means its enough business for ten, but who cares about tomorrow ?

Upscale restaurants and bars mushroomed serving European and Asian food. Swanky-looking nightlife spots in Thailand open and close continuously.

Nightlife entertainment venues open or being remodeled all the time, its very dynamic and sometimes you ask yourself where this guys have all the money from since to open a veritable nightlife spot needs quite a lot of investment, even into Thailand nightlife where everything is much cheaper than in Europe or similar due to the low wages.

Some new hotel and shopping mal projects like the Young Ceylon complex at Patong have been springing up and have spurred commercial activity and a consistent stream of customers moves from one place to the other within maybe 200 meters, as it is in Patong.

The restaurant, bar and nightlife industry in Thailand doesn't look like reaching any saturation point soon, demand increase exponentially ever year, the latest tourist stream comes from Russia and the other former Soviet republics like Kazakhstan etc.

All grim looking people the Thai don't really know very much what to do with them, since they don't speak Thai, naturally, but mostly also not English, so no conversation in "Thaiglish" and what most of the Thais around find very strange is, they never smile, if you don't believe ask a Thai.

However the position is to look at, more bars, nightclubs, hotels, beach resorts and nightlife venues are better, there are thousands of Thai people without a job somewhere in the north of Thailand they call Isan, who just wait to get a job in Thailand's southern tourism industry and where should all this beautiful Thai ladies go to make some money with the "farang" ?