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I have a tours business ,100% of our customers are foreign tourists.
The business Works great for a  number of years,

right now, the busnies not work allmost 6 month,And it does not look like tourism will return in the coming months,
probably before the end of the year,

At first we tried to somehow keep a number of employees
But it became impossible,no income, no possibility of paying salaries

The 1 year visa should be renewed for another year soon
To get a visa you have to rent an office for a year in advance,And obviously the office is going to be closed for most of the time
You need to have four employees,While there is no work, no tourists, and is not going to be soon

any reliefs for a tours business ( with foreign owners) ?!
How can you hire four employees whose business is closed?
And yes, I know very well that things can be done only "on paper"

The question is if anyone knows if there are official facilities for tourism business, in these two issues, office + four employees
There are several hundred tourism businesses in Thailand that belong to foreigners, 
is there any official information regarding the facilitation on the subject?

10 minutes ago, gal29 said:

I have a tours business ,100% of our customers are foreign tourists.
The business Works great for a  number of years,

right now, the busnies not work allmost 6 month,And it does not look like tourism will return in the coming months,
probably before the end of the year,

Hi

i feel really sorry for your loss

you are right. the foreign tourists will not be allowed

to come back in Thailand before 2021 or maybe even later.

 

As your business is virtualy ''dead'' it seems difficult to keep

the visa going with it. 

 

But as it was successful since years you have probably enough saving

to keep yourself ''afloat'' and turn to another visa, depending of your personal

situation (Depend if you are under the age of 50 = elite visa or over the age of

50 = ''retirment visa''. it can also be different if you are married to a thai or if

you have thai child)

 

You still can start again a new business if in the future the situation improve

 

Goodluck anyway

You could have try to apply for Force majeure clause if you can prove that all your revenue was from foreign visitors. If you are able to do it your company won't need pay salaries and your employees will be getting  62% of the salary monthly for the period applied. Another option is to freeze operation but then however you need to pay 75% of salaries. 

For visas and work permits there are no reliefs. 

Miscellaneous and the unknown are the big X factors in business...

 

This is the difficult part - for no reasons of your own doing, your business is not viable in the moment and nobody knows when it will be again.. do the math and decide if you want to stay with it - I would not expect help from outside... 

 

It is really a shame - but happening to so many these days... best of luck to you. 

On 8/12/2020 at 11:26 AM, gal29 said:

How can you hire four employees whose business is closed?
And yes, I know very well that things can be done only "on paper"

What's wrong with doing it "only on paper?"  

 

You are a businessman, and the "paper" method is a viable option for you in these circumstances.