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Looking at tourism where I live in the US, it pretty much dropped off like a rock once the summer holiday season ended; hotels were around 80% before and 20% after. Normal seasonality would be about a 50% drop. I assume things for Thailand will be similar, with the next two months pretty slow and picking up in December.

I doubt it will be cheaper. Really what I want is an LFP based UPS where the battery will last 10 years, but that gets tricky. I think if I can move all my networking and IT equipment to one location I can at least eliminate two units, but the rest of the units are needed mainly for brief interruptions. A centralized UPS likely causes more problems than it solves.

I had a brief (<20s) outage yesterday, and two UPSs that support a total of 150W of computer equipment burned through an extra 80W x 12h to recharge the batteries. Batteries about 14 months old. I need to look into the no-load losses on these things and figure out a better option. I know lead-acid batteries have bad self-discharge and round-trip efficiency, but since I have at least six of the UPSs scattered around the house it might be time to take a look at better options.

In my years of visiting and living in Thailand I have gone to an immigration office once. I plan my trips to avoid it now; no reason for the added hassle. These days I could use a 60 or 90-day visa exemption, because getting a visa is too much of a pain for a vacation.

My perception was that there was about 20% of normal tourist numbers last month. I would be surprised if it doesn't grow to ~30% for peak season. 10MM might be a stretch, but 8MM seems reasonably possible. The problem for Thailand though is that most people are not staying long enough to offset the flight-constrained reality. There were a lot of large groups of young people that were in Thailand for 7-10 days as an example.