Hotels
- Economy News
Foreign investors eye business in Thailand as hotels face closure during new outbreak
The new wave of Covid-19 infections this month has led to a drop in occupancy rates at Thailand hotels, some reporting drops of 5% to 30%, battering hoteliers that have already been struggling from a year of little to no foreign tourists. Some hotel operators have been forced to sell their businesses, according to the president of the Arjarnnar Assetโฆ
- Covid-19 News
Thai Hotel Association pushes โhospitelsโ โ hotels as hospitals
With the third wave of Covid-19 ripping through Thailand, hospitals are rapidly filling up and the Thai Hotels Association has proposed โhospitelsโ as a creative solution. The portmanteau of โhospitalโ and โhotelโ is the THAโs brainchild for creating more space for the growing number of Covid-19 infections that require treatment or at least observation as Thailand hits record daily caseโฆ
- Covid-19 News
People and businesses to face legal action for spreading Covid virus
Health officials say those people and entertainment businesses who helped spur a third wave of Covid-19 in Thailand may face legal action against them. A 26 year old woman, who allegedly boarded a plane on April 11 in Bangkokโs Don Mueang airport after testing positive for the virus, has been pointed out by Chraspong Sukree, the chief of Nakhon Siโฆ
- Thailand News
โWe Travel Togetherโ plan to boost domestic tourism expanded
Thai lawmakers are giving the third phase of the governmentโs โWe Travel Togetherโ scheme a green light to continue boosting domestic tourism. PM Prayut Chan-o-cha along with other lawmakers approved the scheme, titled โRao Tiew Duay Kanโ in Thai, which is a programme that subsidises hotel bookings. The schemeโs third phase is set to cover an additional 2 million peopleโฆ
- Songkran News
Pattaya announces plans to hold Songkran Festival
The tourist city of Pattaya is planning to hold Thai New Year, or Songkran Festival, this year as long as they receive the โgo aheadโ from the government. The Pattaya City Mayor, Sonthaya Khunplume, made the announcement today, saying that the water festival will be held with all the traditional activities including those taking place at temples. Songkran is theโฆ
- Tourism News
Is THIS the cheapest five star hotel in the world? Right here in Bangkok | VIDEO
Is THIS the cheapest five star hotel in the world? We think it is! It certainly passes all the legal expectations of a 5-star property and itโs smack bang in the middle of a touristy area of Bangkok. Itโs โof an eraโ and itโs easy to imagine this older style Bangkok hotel in its heyday, probably in the late 80s.โฆ
- Pattaya News
Chon Buri could be removed from โred zoneโ list, tourists expected to flock to Pattaya
After several consecutive days without a local Covid-19 case, Chon Buri might soon be removed from the governmentโs list of โred zonesโ for high risk of Covid-19. Once lockdown restrictions are eased, the coastal province expects to have an influx of tourists to Pattaya. The province has been under strict disease control measures and is classified as one of theโฆ
- Thailand News
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- Tourism News
The case for temporarily closing hotel and restaurant operations
OPINION by Bill Barnett As the final days of disruptive 2020 come screeching to an erratic end, hotel, and restaurant owners are peering into an unpredictable year ahead. Here in Thailand over the past week, the tourism industry has been shaken to its core over an uptick in Covid-19 cases and backroom speculation over fears of another round of lockdowns. (Restrictions,โฆ
- Visa Information
Can I avoid the 14 day quarantine in Thailand if Iโve been vaccinated?
Now that the Covid-19 vaccines are being rolled out in some countries, the next question relevant to Thailand isโฆ if Iโve had a vaccine for Covid-19, can I come back without doing the 14 (or 15 in some cases) days of quarantine? The Public Health Ministry has issued a statement stating that, in the short to medium term, โeveryone enteringโฆ
- Phuket News
Phuketโs Covid High Season Crisis | VIDEO
https://youtu.be/hK_j52xMwnU We visited Phuket 3 months ago and found the west coast tourist towns empty and devoid of people. Businesses had closed, vendors headed back to their home towns, shops shuttered and streets very, very quiet. The islandโs east coast was still busy with the locals and many expats getting on with their daily lives, getting used to the โnewโฆ
- Visa Information
Thai government keeps the borders locked down despite industry demands to re-open
Despite progress in vaccines and the hard lobbying from Thailandโs tourism and hospitality industries, the Kingdom is destined to miss out on the 2019/2021 high season. The Thai Minster for Sports and Tourism, Pipat Ratchakitprakan, says that the government is looking to March/April in 2021 as the earliest date for any return to general tourism. For now travellers still haveโฆ
- Tourism News
What has the pandemic taught hotels about luxury. Is โlessโ more?
by Anthony Lark โLetโs say goodbye to all that stale pretence and manufactured pompโ Until the collective nightmare that was 2020, many of the so-called high-end hotels had a reputation for trying to convince guests to pay for often dingy guestrooms lacking any real views inside an otherwise ornate structure with a storied, celebrated past, where the first impression wasโฆ
- Visa Information
Thailand will remain closed to general tourism until at least the 2nd quarter of 2021 โ Minister
Kiss any resemblance of general tourism to Thailand goodbye, at least until march next year, at the earliest. Thatโs the outlook for Thailandโs beleaguered tourism industry from the usually optimistic Minster for Sports and Tourism, Pipat Ratchakitprakan. So, apart from the STV and the modified 60 day Tourist Visa, and a few other options โ all involving quarantine and aโฆ
- Tourism News
High season? What high season? Thai tourism has a gap year.
OPINION High season. Whatโs happening to Thailandโs traditional tourist high season this year? (Sounds of crickets and tumbleweed rolling down the streets) Just as last yearโs high season was wrapping up, the Covid-19 pandemic became real and much of the world closed its borders in March. Thailand hoteliers, tour operators and airlines had to endure a very quiet low season,โฆ
- World News
Thailand News Today | The RCEP reset, Hotel Talkfest, Protesters to be arrested | November 16
First day of the week with another Thailand News Today, all the latest news from around Thailand and the region. Hoteliers to discuss how to revive Thailandโs crippled hospitality industry The Tourism and Sports Ministry is holding a talkfest with15 hotel operators expected to join to discuss recovery solutions for the battered industry. Some top executives are planned to pitchโฆ
- Tourism News
Krabiโs Ao Nang businesses shut up or sell up
Ao Nang, Krabiโs tourist strip, is struggling under the strain of no customers or tourists. Thai Residents reports that there are now at least 10 hotels up for sale valued at billions of baht. Businesses and hotels along the popular Ao Nang tourist strip have been shutting down because of the prolonged closure of Thailandโs borders to general tourism. Evenโฆ
- Tourism News
Secrets in the covid era โ the future of Thailand hospitality | VIDEO
Banyan Tree founder KP Ho speaks to Bill Barnett. With a sudden lack of tourists and customers, many Thai hotels had to quickly review their business models and come up with new ways to pay their bills and retain staff. Some succeeded, many didnโt. In fact some hotels have thrived in the face of a seismic change to the hospitalityโฆ
- Tourism News
When hoteliers emerge from 2020, the business will be hard
OPINION Is it time re-imagine the guest relationship? Globally, more than a hundred million travel and hospitality jobs will be lost in 2020 due to Covid-19. Here in Phuket, where I moved in 1988 as the opening general manager at Amanpuri, we have seen as many as 60,000 job losses in the hotel sector alone, which accounts for 86,000 registered rooms,โฆ
- Thailand News
Thailand News Today | BKK protest update, Chiang Mai โquietโ, Baby klong crocs | October 14
Daily TV news about whatโs happening in and around Thailand. Check out the daily Thai News, uploaded around 5pm, Thai time, weekdays. โElevated risk of unrestโ after 21 activist arrests, UN department says Things are heating up ahead of this afternoon and this eveningโs protests and planned march to Government House from the Democracy Monument. Even the United Nations Departmentโฆ