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Thai hotels are suffering from severe staff shortages as the hospitality industry struggles to recover from the fallout of Covid-19, according to the Thai Hotel Association (THA).

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A group of 50 owners of boutique and small hotels in Phuket rallied in Patong area on Tuesday, urging help from the government after their bank creditors threatened to seize their hotels.

The government and the private sector should work together to solve problems faced by the tourism sector, a former tourism minister advised.

S Hotels & Resorts Plc (SHR), Singha Estate Pcl’s hospitality arm, expects growth to hit a record-high revenue of THB8.5 billion in 2022, nearly doubling year on year, from THB4.5 billion in 2021.

With more stringent measures in place to prevent fraud, many hotels are complaining about long delays in the payment of subsidies under the Rao Tiew Duay Kan (We Travel Together) scheme. The scheme was launched to boost domestic tourism.

About 45 per cent of hotels that are still running have just about enough funds to last for three months, a recent survey found.

A total of 23 hotels in Thailand worth a cumulative 13.2 billion baht were sold to local and foreign investors in 2021, marking a 550 per cent jump from 2020, global property broker Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) reported recently.

SiteMinder, an open-source hotel reservation software provider, recently published a list of 12 hotel booking websites that earned the most last year.

Hotels in Chiang Mai that fail to strictly adhere to Test & Go regulations will be removed from the province’s “Charming Chiang Mai” programme, deputy governor Worawit Chaisawat said on Tuesday.

Since Thailand opened 17 “blue zone” provinces to vaccinated foreign tourists on November 1, it has been reported that some visitors have blatantly ignored mandatory disease control measures, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Tuesday.

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