A number of embassies have updated their travel advisories this week to Bangkok and the rest of Thailand. Several are making a point of that the resort areas in the southern part of Thailand are safe and have not been affected by the turmoil in Bangkok.
Mom Tri’s Villa Royale Phuket has launched a new promotion where guests pay for two nights and get the 3rd night free. The offer is valid until the end of June.
Additionally all in-house guest receive 20% off all food at Mom Tri’s Kitchen and Mom Tri’s Oasis and 50% off all spa treatments ending before 13:00.
They are not the only hotel getting their marketing people working overtime. Sri Panwa is preparing special deals.
- Welcome back Thailand. Special Deals coming soon. An offer you should not refuse, teased the marketing department their followers on twitter on Wednesday.
Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort & Spa offers rooms booked before July 15 with up to 30 percent discounts.
Meanwhile, Muslin Sukpatnarakul, Chairman of Thailand Tourist Association unveiled after assessment meeting with Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) that the two-month long rally in Bangkok has caused damage cost of over 50 billion baht to tourist sector, according to INN Thai news agency.
The number of foreign tourists started to decline since March and then dropped sharply after most foreign embassies had warned their nationals against visiting Thailand during the protest which finally turned into confrontation and clashes between the protestors and the troops, who carried out dispersion operation on May 19.
Chinese tourists’ revoking of chartered group tours had resulted in tourist number plunge by 40% in mid May, said the chairman of the tourist association.
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