Thailand Travel Alerts Intensify

CANADIANS and New Zealanders have been advised to avoid all travel to Thailand and New Zealanders who are in Thailand are now being advised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to consider leaving.

The upgraded advisories add to a welter of travel alerts that threaten the future of tourism in Thailand and imperil investment and jobs throughout the country.

Resort managements contacted by Phuketwan today said that cancellations are also coming at a greater rate. The low season from May to November now shapes as a time when hundreds of jobs in Phuket's tourism industry are likely to have to be sacrificed.

The travel alerts fail to differentiate between destinations within Thailand, so the safe and secure holiday destination of Phuket will suffer unjustly as a result of the unruly red protests hundreds of kilometres away in Bangkok.

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