Hotel owners in Pattaya are complaining about the governments rough stands against the PAD. The mass tourist from China and Korea has canceled the normal tours and the economic down turn have halted tourist from the EU and USA.
Some Pattaya hotels are down on its knees and some have to cut of people. But that’s really not anything new. All the southern destinations in Thailand do that every year and hire staff in November again.
So why can we not take this down turn as something positive? Stop building more hotels in Pattaya and the other Islands down south. We do not need anymore hotels that are totally empty during low season and then overprices in the high season.
Is it not better to plant threes and make parks? Soon Pattaya will be one big Hotel and Phuket is already a sad mistake formed by greed. Stop building on Phuket and the other Island and keep the “paradise” look or loose it forever to bars and hookers.
Because seriously no tourist come to Pattaya to swim or see the temples there is only one tourist attraction in Pattaya and we all know it.
Pattaya is basically mutton dressed as lamb, it is a giant brothel masquerading as a city. Personally I think that if Pattaya contained the sex industry to one area, say for example Walking Street then the remainder of Pattaya could be developed into an outstanding all year round holiday destination. Unfortunately if you take away the sex industry from Thailand then you may as well bolt the front door, turn off the lights and hang on the door knocker “Gone into recession, back in a few years”.