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Bangkok, Thailand, feb 2014. Red light disctrict close to a square occupied by protesters.Protesters take over the city camping.Mobility remains the biggest issue facing visitors to the capital, with protesters regularly cutting off major Bangkok intersections in a self-styled shutdown. The political crisis in Thailand is afecting tourims as well.Thailand’s Minister of Tourism and Sports Somsak Phurisisak recently predicted that february arrivals would fall by half to 1 million, with some hotels in the capital, Pattaya and elsewhere experiencing occupancy rates of just 30 percent. Much of that decline is thought to have come from the Chinese market after the nation warned its citizens to avoid protest sites and reconsider nonessential travel to Thailand over the popular Lunar New Year travel period.
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