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Illegal tour groups forced to close as crackdown continues
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 21/06/2024
» The Tourism and Sports Ministry has investigated illegal tour companies offering extremely cheap packages, forcing 10 of them to close.
Netizens hit out at pricey Phuket airfares
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 16/02/2024
» Social media was awash with comments this week from local travellers bemoaning the high price of airfares to Phuket.
Chiang Mai hotels facing lukewarm demand
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 19/09/2023
» Hotels in general and the international airport in Chiang Mai still have a large number of rooms available and spare capacity due to the relatively tepid resumption of tourism post-pandemic, while concerns over PM2.5 dust during the high season still remain.
TAT banking on e-visas
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 05/10/2022
» With Malaysian tourists becoming the first source market to reach 1 million and reopening of more countries in sight, Thai tourism could realise an even stronger rebound among the Asian market if e-visas are adopted and international flights resume, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).
TCT unveils rescue plan for unlicensed small hotels
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 13/08/2022
» The Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) has come up with a solution to help cash-strapped unlicensed small hotels whose assets may be confiscated due to excessive banking debts.
Carriers under the cosh
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 20/07/2021
» Thai AirAsia views the forced lockdown as jeopardising its financial status as the aviation industry has been struggling without government support for over a year as it questioned the ability of the government to collect tax when large businesses have been left to die.
Strict rules bar hotels from asset warehousing scheme
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 17/07/2021
» More Thai hotels may opt to sell their properties if the stringent measures set for financial aid schemes, such as asset warehousing, prevent them from accessing soft loans.
Pandemic reveals bitter truth of income gap
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 02/06/2021
» While local residents are feeling anxious over long-awaited vaccinations that the government has promised to roll out from next week, contrasting scenes have been seen in recent weeks as wealthy people have chosen not to wait but fly across the world to the US to get Covid-19 vaccines.
Pandemic stymies travel aspirations
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 05/05/2021
» Thailand and Japan have had a strong bond in tourism exchange for years -- in 2019, 1.3 million Thais travelled to Japan and 1.8 million Japanese tourists visited Thailand -- but due to the volatility generated by the pandemic in both countries, there are good reasons to believe those good old days will not likely return within this year.
Phuket sandbox timeline to be reset
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 17/04/2021
» The Tourism and Sports Ministry needs to reset the timeline for the Phuket sandbox because the province may not have enough vaccine doses following the new nationwide spread of the virus.