
For the past two years, Thailand's tourism industry has been in a coma due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
To revive the economy, the government has now relaxed Covid-19 control measures to reopen the country. Big hotels now have a chance to recover but for a majority of small hotels, however, it is already too late -- many of them had their fate sealed by outdated laws regulating hotels that made it near impossible for them to gain an operating licence.