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Article: Deep South hotels seek more help.
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- Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2005
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Byline: Sujintana Hemtasilpa
Dec. 8--While tourism business operators in other parts of Thailand are trying to tell international visitors that they are located far away from the violence-prone southernmost provinces, hoteliers in the Deep South are struggling and appealing for more loan assistance.
There have been almost no tourists in Pattani so far this year, leaving operators in the restive province hanging on to their last straw, said Anusart Suwanmongkol, managing director of the C.S. Pattani Hotel and also president of the Association of Tourism Business of Pattani.
The situation in adjacent Yala and Narathiwat is about the same, except ...