A guide holds up a flag as a marker for her tourist group to gather around Ratchaprasong intersection on Friday. (Photo: Soomchai Poomlard)
Police have arrested one Chinese and one Vietnamese national for illegally working as tour guides near the Ratchaprasong intersection, according to the Department of Employment (DoE).
Pairoj Chotikasathien, the DoE’s director-general, said the Professional Tourist Guide Association of Thailand (PGAT) had lodged complaints earlier that their work has been disrupted by foreign tour guides who lack work permits in the kingdom.
Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin assigned the DoE to investigate. Officials from the DoE, Lumpini Police Station and Bangkok Employment Office 1 then pounced on Thursday…
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