PUBLISHED: 04: 30 on September 11, 2023.
In order to get ready for the large season, Phuket wants to promote licenses among little hotel users. The state’s ability to receive more than 10,000 tourists per day, or 2.19 million visitors annually, is anticipated to increase as a result of resort license membership.
A seminar was held on September 7 by the Phuket Boutique Accommodation Consortium( BAC ) to promote a ministerial regulation that changed the requirements for obtaining an interior ministry hotel license and was issued by that department of public works and town and country planning in June.
The amendment, according to Phuket deputy governor Danai Sunantarod, gives little hotel owners a great chance to apply for licenses and legitimately register their establishments for common agency inspection.
According to the rule, smaller hotels are free from certain creating requirements that apply to general hotels, such as stairwell diameter or retracted parking space. Security protocols like fire supervision and those relating to building structure, however, continue to be required requirements.
More than 80 % of the hotel island’s smaller hotels lack legal licenses, according to Chinnawat Udomniyom, president of Phuket BAC.
He thinks more small business owners may record their operations now that the regulations permit them to be excluded from some requirements.
By the end of this year, over 25 to 30 million tourists are anticipated to visit Thailand, according to Wirintra Paphakityotphat, head of the Tourism Council of Thailand( TCT ) Region 11. She was citing statistics from the Thailand Tourism Council.
She claimed that there are between 4,000 and 5,000 resorts in Phuket, and just 2,000 of them have the necessary company licenses.
She continued,” I’m hoping that this will help the anticipated 2.19 million visitors annually, generating over 16.2 billion baht in tourism income.”