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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[ChipButty]

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

[Borzandy]

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..

[SteveB2]

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/

 

[legend49]

Are the 73 operators  farang???

[ChipButty]

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

[fruitman]

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

[ronaldo0]

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

[from the home of CC]

bulldoze em all..

[LivinLOS]

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. 

 

 

[gk10002000]

what are the requirements for permission?

[Chazar]

3 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

what are the requirements for permission?

large larger and largest envelope

[gk10002000]

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.

[mike787]

I say start a Gofund to investigate....