No audience: Muay Thai fighters performing inside an empty bar in Walking Street, a popular entertainment district in Pattaya. — Reuters
Beaches are deserted, go-go bars stand empty and cabarets have shut their doors in Thailand’s tourist haven of Pattaya, as business has ground to a standstill after worldwide travel restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic.
For one of the world’s most famed – some might say infamous – tourism hotspots, the economic devastation is near-total and business owners say they haven’t seen anything like it for four decades.
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