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Thai tourism industry has a very bleak future ahead. With no real end of the conflict in the middle of Bangkok and more and more embassies issues travel warning it looks like a bad year for Thailand tourism.

The Thai government have responded with lifting the visa fee for all tourist visas but this will probably do very little to push up the numbers. The insurance of 10 000 USD is no good either if you are killed by a rubber bullet or a bomb in Bangkok.

As we wrote before the rest of Thailand is still safe even if North Thailand can be the next target after a few Red Shirts have tried to storm city hall. North Thailand is the mother load of all Thaksin supports and can fall after Bangkok. Nobody really travel to Essarn for tourist purposes so any conflict there will not affect tourism.

Most expats do not care what the Embassy says they travel to Thailand anyway and they know how to get the latest real info about the situation in Thailand but first time travelers will probably pick another destination with less violence.

The TAT stands like a rock as usual doing nothing but spend money on mega project nobody understands. Some people have asked if it is a company or a government agency and the truth is I do not know. I know that some people are paying big money to start working there because the money you can get back is even bigger. They scared away all normal tourists with statements they only want rich foreigners in Thailand but you know what, Rich tourist’s wants safety and stability they do not want to land there private jets in a danger zone.

My friends recently visit Laos and they are beaming with poor tourist spending money like crazy in places that really needs it. They welcome any tourist rich or poor because when the shit hits then fan it is no time to be fussy.

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Many readers have asked us about the hotel in Bangkok that is close to the danger zone that many embassies have talked about.
We feel that these hotels below are too close for comfort but this can change anytime and it does we will keep you updated. The Hotels might be a target in some way and avoided because of that. Bangkok Bank and Siam Commercial Bank have been targets in the past and might be in the future.

• Hotel Le Meridian Bangkok‎
• HOLIDAY INN SILOM
• Hotel Pan Pacific Bangkok
• Hotel Dusit Thani
• Centra Grand
• The Anoma
• Intercontinental Hotel
• Golden House
• Aphrodite Hotel Bangkok
• Hotel Krungsri River
• Novotel Siam Square
• Twin Towers Hotel
• Frasers Place
• Four Seasons Hotel
• Centre Point Silom
• Antara Baan Service Hotel
• Saladaeng Colonnade
• Saladang Place Hotel
• Doi Tung Lodge

We cannot guarantee that this is all the hotels but if you search on a map in Google you will see proximity we are talking about. These are also the areas:
Silom, Pratunam, Siam Square, Central World, Sala Daeng, Chit Lom.
We think hotels above Patpong Market on Silom and future then Sala Daeng in the opposite direction should be safe to stay for now.
Please do not visit any of these places for now but the old town near the Grand Palace is safe for now.

We want to stress out that we feel sorry for the hotels but we must think about the safety of our readers. If any hotel feels that, they can provide enough security for their hotels guest they are welcome to contact us and we will take them off the list.

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The flight to Europe from Thailand and other Asian countries have started to come back to normal to most European countries but nobody knows if the Volcano on Iceland will stop the flight again.

I scientist from Iceland said the Volcano might even exploded and then we will have even bigger problem with ashes flying all over sky.

It looks like the Thai immigration will not charge for overstay for people that are late up to the 30 April 2010 but the problem is do all the Immigration officers know about this rule? Another problem, airlines are backlogged so the passengers will not get a flight until a few weeks time.

Hong Kong must have gotten a real turn off greed when they turned up the hotel price in one day from 250 USD to 850 USD leaving stranded passengers broke as well. I think Thailand should have taken the moment and offered stranded passengers in other greedy countries free flights to Thailand.

Last time when the Yellow Shirts made the Bangkok Airport into a karaoke bar for rich people the hotels in Thailand offered many of its guest free stay until the party was over the Chef and Thai PM duly fired.

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Is Thailand still Safe?

This prognosis is for a week forward further than that I do not want to predict.

Many people wonder if they are still safe in Thailand and if they should cancel their holiday to Thailand or not. The more experienced traveler knows that the problems in Thailand almost never spill over to the tourists. The big expositions might be the bombs on New Year a few years ago when a few tourist die and injured.

The unrest are still very much controlled to the center of Bangkok to the big shopping malls but is that really something you want to see as a tourist? Now when the Red Shirts have moved from the area around old town the big destinations like Grand Palace are very safe to visit.

Next week the PAD (Yellow Shirts) will take to the streets and we do not know where they will gather or how many they will be. The risk for a big clash is off course a big risk and it could lead to civil war but the changes are very small. The army said they will move the Red Shirts within a few days and they probably do it before the PAD comes back on the streets.

If you want to avoid the trouble all together, you can just take a connection flight to Phuket or any of the other southern islands. You can also take a bus or taxi directly from Airport in Bangkok and never have to worry about what shirts to look out for.

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