Local residents near Floating Market complain about market flooding into their village to city...
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Residents of a small village on Moo 4 located behind the popular Pattaya tourist attraction The Floating Market have reached out to the city government to complain about consistent flooding and damage done to...
Social media effort to find missing son in Koh Tao discovers him safe in...
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Over the past few days Thai language social media websites shared the news that a father in the Netherlands was looking for his missing son, Mr. Dennis Wielaard, who had vanished with no communication...
Expedia to partner with Thai government to expand legal hotel listings in Thailand to...
Expedia Group has teamed up with the Thai government on a program to expand the country’s tourism market by sending foreign tourists beyond the country’s main tourist attractions.
Since fewer hotels outside Thailand’s major cities...
Chinese tourist arrivals down almost 12% year over year for August, overall foreign tourist...
BANGKOK -- Chinese mainland tourists to Thailand dropped 11.77 percent in August compared with the same month last year, according to Thailand's Ministry of Tourism and Sports statistics.
The ministry said that some 3,228,595 foreign...
Pattaya Ferry to Hua Hin suspended until November 1st, 2018
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Less than two years after it opened with much fanfare, a ferry connecting the resort towns of Hua Hin and Pattaya has been suspended, a tourism official said Thursday.
Citing financial losses, weather delays and...
Backpackers begging for money sparks anger in Phuket
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Local residents of Phuket snapped some photos that were shared to social media this week of Western backpackers, who have not been identified at this time, begging for money to finance their...
Recent Rains cause further erosion to Pattaya Beach, concern for newly replenished North Section
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In the past two months Thai authorities have made the Northern section of Pattaya Beach by the Dusit Hotel much better by importing matching sand from a nearby land and tripling the size of...
Thailand Changes Work Permits: With a work permit, one can now work in a...
Text courtesy of The Phuket News:
Previously, foreigners who needed to obtain a work permit in order to work were prohibited from doing any work, for any employer, anywhere, and under any such conditions if...
Maya Bay, location of the Beach movie, to close to tourists in June
It is one of the world’s most famous beaches, thanks to its starring role in Danny Boyle’s film of Alex Garland’s bestselling novel, and is often referred to simply as “the beach”. However, this...
