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Bangkok Hotel closures provoke more worry for beleaguered Thai tourism industry

The downtick of Thailand’s tourism business that started with the yellow-shirted People’s Alliance for Democracy’s (PAD) closing of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport in 2008 has continued unabated with the red-shirted United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship’s (UDD) protest at Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong intersection in 2010. The Bangkok Post reported on April 21 that the InterContinental Bangkok and […]

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