Tourist lift tipped for Pattaya

CHON BURI: Tourists are expected to soon start flocking back to Pattaya amid a far brighter Covid-19 outlook and with the mandatory 14-day quarantine no longer being enforced.

The president of the Thai Hotels Association Eastern Chapter, Phisut Sae-khu, said Chon Buri might be removed from the government’s list of “red zones” after it reported zero new infections several days in a row.

Mr Phisut called for the loosening of restrictions, saying business people were facing a serious liquidity problem and many small- to medium-sized hotels had already gone out of business.

Nor could anyone yet predict how long it would take surviving businesses in the province to fully recover, he said.

The association president added that the province’s lifting of the mandatory 14-day quarantine period for visitors to Pattaya offered some hope to the tourism sector.

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