From Pattaya Mail

Large swathes of Pattaya’s main districts are being demolished by bulldozers and replaced by high screens and metal walls. New condos, hotels and entertainment parks await only the go ahead from the civic authorities. Runway 88 on Second Road will specialize in street food from various continents. There is already a Pakistani Airlines 747 parked as the main attraction and enough space for 200 eateries, market stalls and kids’ play areas. If you don’t believe that Pattaya is changing fast and preparing for a very different future, here’s the evidence.

Will it be called "Second Road International Airport", airport standard  abbreviation will be SEX to distinguish it from BKK or PTY

Will this business take off ?

If that's a recent photo, there has been no progress in the last 6 months, making it another abandoned construction site.

I wonder when one of this old planes will be converted to a bar, gay or straight lol. The cockpit will finally be true to its name.

1 hour ago, z909 said:

Will this business take off ?

 

Based on business in Pattaya just now it looks like it might be in more for a hard landing than a smooth take off ! 😞

3 hours ago, z909 said:

Will this business take off ?

If that's a recent photo, there has been no progress in the last 6 months, making it another abandoned construction site.

I remember in winter you  showed us  that mysterious photo and tormented us to guess  what it is

There are scores of reasons why Pattaya's plans to reopen can go awry. Who, what, when where and how? But at least efforts are being made by the private sector to innovate despite a seemingly conflicted public sector.

Today's Pattaya Mail detailed all the possible roadblocks, all of which we've been discussing on the forums for more than a year. It was overwhelmingly depressing--but only if you took to heart everything it said.

Nevertheless I continue to believe that Thailand has no other reasonable alternative to reopening to the fully vaccinated. If vaccination remains the single metric that the country applies to its own population, then it needs to be the same, single metric that applies to tourists.

All of the other issues will gradually fall away if the powers that be acknowledge the realities of jump startling the economy.

1 hour ago, reader said:

 

Nevertheless I continue to believe that Thailand has no other reasonable alternative to reopening to the fully vaccinated.

specially now when they managed to vaccinate 1  million in one day

1 hour ago, vinapu said:

specially now when they managed to vaccinate 1  million in one day

One special named day (and given the name, how could it possibly fail?) It's not the daily vaccination rate

As for Runway 88, what differentiates it from Terminal 21 except for having a larger aircraft outside? Oh, and one of them is open for business.

17 minutes ago, thaiophilus said:

One special named day (and given the name, how could it possibly fail?) It's not the daily vaccination rate

As for Runway 88, what differentiates it from Terminal 21 except for having a larger aircraft outside? Oh, and one of them is open for business.

yes but million is million even if it means just 913 483

Even if Pattaya reopen lots of business related to tourists already went bankrupt for example in walking street most of the business are in fact dead , the same in Phuket ,Krabi and so on nothing much left to be open right away once the Government permit it , Sadly it will take years for fully recovery of the tourism industry in Thailand.

I think it'll be just weeks

Gay locations - in Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket - have been slowly but surely declining even before the covid. Be that as it may, now the main driver for growth is the quantity and quality of special services.