A leading Pattaya hotelier called on the government to increase the number of alien workers to solve the hospitality industry’s labor shortage.
Sopin Thappajug, managing director of the Diana Group, said Jan. 30 that the government’s “We Travel Together” subsidy program increased the number of Thai tourists and the reopening of the country has spurred international arrivals. But there have not been enough workers to handle the tourism resurgence.
She said the new year’s period was particularly difficult and some of her staff worked two months without taking holidays.
Although the Covid-19 crisis that shut down hotels is over, hotel staff that worked prior to the pandemic…
