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PHUKET: More than 30 Phuket tour guides who are members of the Professional Tourist Guide Association of Thailand (PGA) protested at Promthep Cape yesterday afternoon (Dec 21), furious at the rapidly increasing numbers of illegal Chinese tour guides on the island. The Chinese-speaking tour guides, led by Wanchai Taweeapiradeepitak, held signs
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BANGKOK, 16 July 2017 (NNT) – The Prime Minister has stressed the government's position to eliminate illegal foreign tour guides, and will work towards the creation of multilingual Thai tour guides to fulfill international tourism demands. Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha had said regarding the issue where the Professional Tourist Guide
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Associations of local tour guide operators nationwide have gathered to oppose the government's plan to allow foreign tour guides to offer services in the country, saying the policy will result in huge unemployment. A total of 22 associations and clubs of tour guide operators met Sunday and resolved to oppose the
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A total 130 illegal tour guides were arrested by police as they were attending a direct sale seminar at a hotel in Bangkok on Sunday. Acting on a tipoff of a direct sale seminar suspected to be a cover-up of a seminar for illegal foreign tour guides at a hotel in
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A joint operation of tourist and highway police is setting up daily roadblocks to crack down on illegal guides working in Pattaya. Several tour buses were stopped en route to the resort yesterday and two arrests were made, initial reports suggest. Full story: Pattaya One Pattaya One / 77Jowo
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PHUKET: A group of local tour guides and a group of local tour bus operators simultaneously submitted letters at Phuket Provincial Hall today demanding that action be taken against illegal tour guides and operations "stealing" their jobs. About 50 members of the Andaman Tour Guide Association (Phuket-Phang Nga-Krabi) led by Mr
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On May 15 Swanya Saema posted an appeal on the ‘We Love Pattaya’ Facebook page after her brother, a Thai Tour Guide, was tricked out of 7000 Baht by an Arab couple in Pratumnak Hill, Pattaya. A clip showed twenty-four year old victim Winai Ploykamol browsing in 7/11 on Soi 5,
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Two men who have been mentioned in the past few days as possible perpetrators of the bombing in central Bangkok on Monday, have handed themselves in to police on Thursday. Thai authorities released a video with grainy images of a CCTV surveillance camera showing a young man in yellow shirt carrying
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