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Huge tourism revenue loss expected in Thailand's tsunami-affected region.
Byline: Nondhanada I.A. Chuenniran
Jan. 5--Thailand stands to lose four billion baht a month in tourism revenue from the tsunami-struck southern provinces, where it is likely to take at least two to three months to restore facilities, according to Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).
TAT governor Juthamas Siriwan said the country needed to work urgently to fix the damaged property to minimise the impact on the overall economy, adding that the agency had not yet revised its target of international arrivals.
The TAT will ask the government to allocate an additional one billion baht on top of the two-billion-baht marketing budget for local and ...
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