BANGKOK, Aug 8 (TNA) – A group of over 300 victims, collectively defrauded of more than 24 million baht, are pleading for justice after a fraudulent tour company left them empty-handed and facing threats. Board members of firm deny role in Japan travel ‘scam’ According to one of the victims, a motorcycle parts manufacturer, the […]
PHUKET, Feb 8 (TNA) – Phuket governor, officials and representatives from tourism sector met Li Chenglong, counselor director of China’s Phuket consular office to apologize for a tour agent’s attack on a Chinese tourist. Both sides discussed the Feb 1 incident when a woman at a Thai tour company in Karon sub-district kicked a Chinese […]
A tour company in Phuket has had its operating license suspended for six months after one of its employees allegedly attacked a Chinese customer. The female employee was summoned to Karon district police station on Monday, to acknowledge charges of assault and carrying a knife in a public place, after the victim posted on her […]
A Chinese tour agent fell to his death at a Pattaya hotel last night, January 16th, and although there was no immediate sign of another person present at the time, Pattaya police are investigating odd behavior by the victim prior to the incident. Pattaya police were notified of the incident at 11:46 PM and traveled […]
SONGKHLA: Nine tour guides based in Hat Yai have taken their own lives since the pandemic shut down the tourist sector, while others have descended to theft to stay alive, according to an industry spokesman. Witthaya Sae Lim, former chairman of the Songkhla professional guides association, said about 600 local guides had been without work […]
Tour operators are urging the government to help 15,000 tour operators at risk of collapse due to stagnant cash flow. Vichit Prakobgosol, president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents (Atta), said at least 11 troubled sectors still cannot access the government’s aid measures for businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Full story: Bangkok Post […]
A tour operator has been arrested in Bangkok seven years after he allegedly swindled 41 holidaymakers out of almost one million baht in total for a trip to South Korea that did not materialise. Theeraphon Phongwet, 49, wanted on an arrest warrant issued by the Lop Buri provincial court in January 2011 for public fraud, […]
BANGKOK, 1 May 2017 (NNT) – The Department of Tourism is set to launch an operation to crack down on illegal tour agencies in an effort to improve the Thai tourism image. Department of Tourism Director-General Wannasiri Morakul said members of the Board of Division of Tourism Business and Guide Registration instructed her department to […]
