{"id":21504,"date":"2025-12-20T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21504"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:06:39","slug":"rivals-rain-and-rising-costs-thailands-tourism-crown-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21504","title":{"rendered":"Rivals, rain and rising costs: Thailand\u2019s tourism crown slips"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As the windows rattled from distant explosions, British tourist Brian* sat sleepless in a dim hotel room in Thailand<\/span>\u2019s Trat province, waiting out a curfew he had not known existed.<\/div>\n
With artillery ringing out from across the border with Cambodia<\/span>, his dreams of reaching the island of Koh Kood seemed to dissolve into the darkness.<\/div>\n

\u201cThe police said the road was closed and I\u2019d have to find accommodation overnight,\u201d Brian told This Week in Asia, offering only his first name. \u201cI heard explosions all through the night, but I got out first thing in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

By dawn, he had escaped by speedboat towards Koh Kood, one of Thailand\u2019s easternmost islands roughly 40km (25 miles) from the Cambodian mainland \u2013 his earlier worries quickly forgotten in the postcard calm of its powdery white sand and turquoise waters.<\/p>\n

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Koh Chang in Thailand\u2019s Trat province, part of the same archipelago as Koh Kood near the Cambodia border. Photo: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Thai authorities have since lifted the nighttime curfew that trapped him, hoping to contain both the border skirmish and its reputational aftershocks.<\/p>\n

Yet the fighting with Cambodia, revived again this month at the height of tourist season<\/span> after first flaring up this summer, is another bruise on the image of a country where tourism makes up almost one-eighth of the economy and sustains millions of livelihoods.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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