11:58 AM MYT
BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The Thai Hotels Association (THA) will ask for more government measures to soften the impact of Covid-19 on the sector, THA chairperson Marisa Sukusol told the Thansettakij newspaper.
Among them is a measure allowing hotels to suspend their outstanding debt.
Hotels want to halt their principal and interest payments for two years. The THA also wants annual interest on hotel debt to be cut to 2 per cent.
The THA will also ask the government to allocate budget for soft loans of up to Bt60 million per hotel at 2 per cent interest, with principal and interest repayment suspended for two years.
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