A shopkeeper peers out from her stall as people buy clothing at a night market in Chiang Mai on Sunday. "So far numbers have not dropped, that's from the surveys we did and from numbers from overseas offices," he told AFP. Despite the easing of restrictions on entertainment, festivities are likely to remain comparatively muted for the foreseeable future. In Chiang Mai, where the festival usually draws tens of thousands of tourists, locals said they were expecting smaller crowds. "Since he (the king) passed away, business has gone down a little bit," Tik Srirat, a hotel owner in the town told AFP.

Source: Bangkok Post November 14, 2016 09:45 UTC