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BIZARRE: Unfair laws in tourism need overhaul | Mind Blowing Facts

Local officials during the arrest of small hotel operators in Hua Hin for operating without a licence in early 2019. (Photo: Chaiwat Sardyaem)

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to recover but for a majority of small hotels, however, it is already too late -- many of them had their fate sealed by outdated laws regulating hotels that made it near impossible for them to gain an operating licence.

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