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Thai locals brace for bleak future while awaiting turn of the tide.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Byline: Woranuj Maneerungsee

Jan. 7--PHUKET, Thailand -- Paveena Siritaweerat counts herself as one of the lucky ones. Her friends and family are safe. Her employer, the Club Bamboo Boutique Resort, located on a slight incline just behind Patong beach, escaped the waves that washed away many of the beachside establishments. But the 30-year-old Phuket native fears her decade-long career in the hotel business might be in jeopardy all the same.

Tourist arrivals to the island have plunged, with some authorities warning of a 50 percent decline in tourists over the next six months.

At the red-brick Club Bamboo, some 80 percent of the Bali-style ...

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