Venues in Phuket selling alcohol must apply for new permit

First, they shut all the bars and entertainment venues selling alcohol in Thailand. Then they said those venues could reopen, but not as a boozy bar, rather as restaurants, who eventually were allowed to sell a bit of alcohol again, now until 11 pm. But now in Phuket, entertainment venues that were originally licenced to sell alcohol but then got licenced to serve food (so they could sell alcohol) must now get a new license to sell alcohol in their bar turned restaurant turned bar again.

In a new twist for the saga of entertainment venues in Thailand during Covid-19, Phuket Vice Governor Pichet Panapong announced that bars that reopened as restaurants must now register to get a new permit to sell and allow consumption of alcohol on their premises.

At a Phuket Provincial Hall meeting yesterday, the new regulation signed by Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew was announced that would…