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With nine hotels and more than 800 rooms, Aitken Spence Hotels ranks as the nation’s second-largest hotel owner after John Keells Hotels. It plans to build four additional hotels during the next few years that will result in a total 2,132 rooms.
With hotel rates already eroding, Thailand—particularly Bangkok and Phuket—will soon host hundreds of new upscale hotels that won’t match the pocketbooks of the groups flying from Vladivostok and Beijing,
After I saw this startling video of a Thai market ebbing and flowing over the tracks of a train, I had many questions. Where was the market? Can I go there? What is the history of this line? Mystery solved!
Thais take their food, fun, music, drinking, dancing and conviviality very seriously. Nightlife venues run into the thousands. So don't conclude that the following glimpse of three very different neighborhoods is in any way exhaustive. The surface has been barely nicked. What can be said is that these are three long-running neighborhoods that will deliver sanuk (fun) wanderings and meetings with ordinary, chatty Thai ...
By far, most patrons in Thailand are Thai men, yet foreign johns also fuel the demand. They not only come on sex tours from Europe, Japan and Malaysia. There are also conspicuous communities of middle-aged and elderly Western men who live in Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok solely for the availability of cheap sex, child sex and younger wives. Many make a living by teaching in English schools.
Susan J Cunningham 