Immigration police update hotels on rules and regulations

Must report all new arrivals within 24 hours

PATTAYA: -- Pattaya immigration police conducted their annual training seminar on April 11 for local business operators on the rules and regulations concerning foreign visitors. Held at the Green Park Hotel, the seminar had an attendance of over 100 hotel, apartment and guesthouse owners.

Pattaya Immigration superintendent Pol Col Itthipol Ithisarnronachai and Mayor Niran Wattanasartsathorn chaired the meeting.

According to current immigration laws, business owners must keep a ledger of all foreigners staying on the premises. Details of how to check passports and procedures were relayed, including the point that all new arrivals must be reported within 24 hours in accordance with 1989 legislation. A ledger must be available for inspection should police or immigration officials ask for it.

Business owners were informed of the penalties that may be incurred should they fail to follow the rules, with fines ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 baht.

Immigration officers also touched on security issues to protect lives and property in the wake of the recent bombings in the nation’s south. They urged owners and staff to report any suspicious documents or visitors to police in order to maintain a high level of precaution in Pattaya, due to the high profile of the city and the large numbers of foreign tourists visiting each year.

They were also told that information can now be transmitted electronically via emailing: [email protected]

--Pattaya Mail 2005-04-22

Tsunami measures or smth more ominous?

OK that is Pattaya.

No more than a reminder of the rules, possibly triggered by the Guardian allegations

about all the gangsters who live there?

What about all the little flee pits up country that do not even ask for your passport?