As coronavirus resurges in Thailand, tourism businesses go on life support Vijitra Duangdee in Pattaya Kampon Tansacha, the owner of Noongnooch Tropical Garden, directs his landscaping crew in making refinements to the park. Photo: Vijitra Duangdee
Helping to push a stone slab with a carving of a Hindu deity into the earth, Kampon Tansacha said he faced a stark choice in deciding what to do with the army of staff that looked after his botanical garden outside the Thai resort city of Pattaya: close the garden and let them go unpaid, or keep it open and soak up the losses with no visitors.