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Thai Tourism Plans Revival After Recent Violence

by Thilaka Ravi on May 27, 2010 at 3:34 PM Lifestyle News

The Thai capital has been almost scrubbed clean, but it will take awhile before images of two months of deadly anti-government street protests disappear from the minds of potential visitors.

Thai Tourism Plans Revival After Recent Violence

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Thailand's lucrative tourism industry has been gutted by last week's scenes, televised worldwide, of Bangkok reduced to a battle zone in an army crackdown on a "Red Shirt" encampment in the city's ritzy commercial district.

Thailand's National Economic and Social Development board said Monday the Bangkok violence had turned away millions of potential tourists, cutting revenues by 113 billion baht (3.47 billion dollars).

"There will only be about 13 million tourist arrivals this year, a three million drop from our original target of 16 million," the think-tank said in a statement, noting tourist arrivals from within Asia had particularly declined.

Many fear that Thailand's image as the "Land of Smiles" has been shattered by the violence that left 88 dead and 1,900 injured since April 10 and saw 36 major buildings torched last week.

"There's no question that there has been a serious effect on tourism," said Bill Heinecke, chief executive of the Minor Group, which owns hotels, resorts and fast food franchises, including a Four Seasons hotel in the protest zone.

He said the industry had been badly dented by media coverage of the unrest as well as travel warnings issued by 47 countries during the protests, some of which advised against visits to all of Thailand, not just Bangkok.

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