Sukjai Thailand Facebook page of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Steals Again.

This is another double steal from the Tourism Authority of Thailand.  They stole text from Wikipedia and a photo from a Thai web site – manage.co.th.

Here is the Facebook post from Sukjai Thailand Tourism Authority of Thailand:

Tourism Authority of Thailand Sukjai Facebook Post

The text in the post comes from Wikipedia here.  About the only thing original in the Facebook post from the Tourism Authority of Thailand are the quotation marks.  Again, proper attribution not given.

Here are the images side by side – left is original from Manage.co.th and the right is stolen by the Tourism Authority of Thailand:

Exact same image down to the exact same pixel count – 350×281.

I guess that the Tourism Authority of Thailand wasn’t paying very good attention at the “Mapping the Future” conference held on 19 May 2011.  You know – the one that cost TAT 20 million baht to bring in some expert professors to explain how to market.  One of the briefings was on Social Media – primarily Facebook and Twitter.

TAT continues to steal intellectual property on an almost daily basis.  I also guess they were sleeping through the presentation on Reputation Management.  The Tourism Authority of Thailand isn’t helping with Thailand’s image at all.

Maybe the Tourism Authority of Thailand is going to wait until Fiscal Year 2012 to implement those strategies that they learned during the brainstorming sessions and just continue to steal other people’s images and text in FY2011!

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