/ Posted on 7 May, 2021 17:58
As a fresh wave of Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand continues to hamper the tourism industry’s rebound, more travel companies and tourist bus operators across the country have ceased operations.
The spate of closures signals that the pandemic has had a far more severe impact on the industry as compared to the financial crisis “Tom Yum Kung” in 1997 and previous episodes of political tensions over the years.
Virus resurgences continue to threaten tourism recovery in Thailand
Earlier this week, the Thai Hotels Association stated that they would only be able to continue retaining their employees for one more month. It also warned that if the dire situation prevails, more hotel closures and staff layoffs are likely to follow.
At the recent ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture's (OCAC) Art Collection in the spacious art hall on Ratchadamnoen Avenue, a group of ageing male artists covered in sanitary masks surrounded the director of OCAC, Vimolluck Chuchart, who gave a self-congratulatory speech. She proudly announced that the public will be able to view for the first time the national collection of the Ministry of Culture's contemporary Thai art. Beside these elderlies stood a white giant fibreglass sculpture by Sutee Kunavichyanont in Thai military uniform wearing a helmet with a rifle erect. Sutee's Equality; Thai Soldier (2016) is inspired by the cultural mandates between 1939 and 1942 during the premiere of Phibul Songkhram that aimed to uplift the national spirit and moral code of the nation and instil progressive tendencies and newness into Thai life.
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