Urban environmental and community destruction is rife, so it’s good to see people confronting those who cause it and enable it. “[The protest] is designed to reflect the people’s utter disgust at the criminal levels of corruption and non-transparency” and the corporate silence of many years. Gradually, the worldwide media will be invited to play a part, along with travel associations and the CEOs of other hospitality groups, to name but a few. In this case, the choices are simple: profit or people first, transparency and corporate communication or death-by-hunger strike? The humanitarian credentials of the apparently ungoverned hospitality industry are to be tested to the limit.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 11, 2016 18:05 UTC