Pattaya still waiting for Chinese zero-dollar tours to restart

Pattaya Mail

Pattaya still waiting for Chinese zero-dollar tours to restart

Chinese tourists arrive on large tour buses for the cabaret at the popular 79 Show on Pattaya’s Thepprasit Road. Although around 500,000 Chinese have already visited Thailand this year, there is little sign that the much-debated zero-sum holidays have yet returned. They were especially popular in Pattaya prior to the pandemic. They are essentially all-in tours, paid for in China prior to flying, which essentially benefit Thai-Chinese companies a…