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Koh Samui: Dozens of beachside hotels operating without permission in Chaweng

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Koh Samui: Dozens of beachside hotels operating without permission in Chaweng

 

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The operators of 73 beachside bungalow and hotels on one of Koh Samui's principal beaches have not had their permission to operate renewed. 

 

The Chaweng operators were at a meeting at the weekend to complain about how they are being treated. 

 

They are involved in a dispute about land use and access. 

 

They think that they should be given permission to operate while the dispute is resolved. 

 

Source: New TV

 

 

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Probably dozens all over Thailand soon half them will have to close after April is not looking good

2 hours ago, webfact said:

They think that they should be given permission to operate while the dispute is resolved

The brown envelope was not thick enough..

For many years, the regulations governing the operation and registration of Hotels in Thailand were largely ignored.

 

However, there is a lot of money to be made by local officials enforcing the law (for example 10,000 Baht/ day fine for every day the hotel remains open without a proper license) so many tourist areas have seen sporadic but ocasionally fierce enforcement of the Hotel registration acts.

 

Pattaya got a massive shakedown about a year ago, with dozens of operators either closed down, fined or imprisonned. 

 

Registration is fairly straighforward, but a massive paper chase. check out this link for more info https://pugnatorius.com/hotel-license/

 

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4 minutes ago, legend49 said:

Are the 73 operators  farang???

Not normally Farangs are the one who do things by the book, it's usually Thai's just ignoring the law

Is there a list of those hotels/resorts or can we still book them on Agoda ?

And if they only had enough people to check the whole island and businesses etc their little heads would explode !!

On 3/2/2020 at 8:39 AM, SteveB2 said:

Registration is fairly straighforward, but a massive paper chase. check out this link for more info https://pugnatorius.com/hotel-license/

 

Its not only the paper chase.. Many of the buildings are not built to code / hotel spec. 

 

 

3 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

what are the requirements for permission?

large larger and largest envelope

1 hour ago, Chazar said:

large larger and largest envelope

lots of BIB personnel are going to feel quite a pinch in the wallet if tourism stays down.  Of course they may continue shaking down their locals and bleed them dry until they fold up and go out of business.

I say start a Gofund to investigate....

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