Me ka maʻi maʻi maʻi, he 19 mau mahina mai kaʻu pint hope loa i loko o kahi pā hale ʻo Bangkok a i koʻu noho ʻana ma laila ua like nā mea maʻamau, maoli maoli me he mea lā ʻaʻohe mea i hala. Me he mea lā ʻaʻohe mea ʻokoʻa.

Akā ʻokoʻa loa ia, ʻo ka hōʻea ʻana mai o Covid-19 he hanana nui loa ʻaʻole i mālama ʻia kekahi. I koʻu noho ʻana i ka inu ʻana i kaʻu pint, huli koʻu manaʻo i ka wā e hiki mai ana. He aha ka mea i waiho ʻia no ka ʻoihana aʻu i komo ai ma mua o 4 mau makahiki. I ka makahiki 2019 i kahi honua i hoʻopilikia ʻole ʻia e ka coronavirus, ua hoʻokipa ʻo Thailand i 39.9 miliona mau mākaʻikaʻi mai ka honua holoʻokoʻa. I kēia makahiki ua wānana ka ʻoihana e paʻakikī ke hiki i 6 miliona no 2021. ʻO kahi hāʻule o 85%.

ʻO ka mākaʻikaʻi kahi mea hoʻokele waiwai nui i ke Aupuni. ʻO ka manaʻo o ka loaʻa kālā o ka mākaʻikaʻi e hāʻawi pololei ana i ka GDP, e like me Wikipedia, mai hoʻokahi trillion baht (2013) a 2.53 trillion baht (2016), ka like me 9% a 17.7% o GDP. A e like me ka National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) i ka makahiki 2019, ua manaʻo ʻia ka ulu ʻana o ka ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi a i nā makahiki he ʻumi e hiki mai ana he 30% o GDP e 2030, mai 20% i 2019.

Ua hoʻopilikia ʻia kēia mau wānana e ka maʻi maʻi maʻi, ua hōʻoia ʻo NESDC i nā helu maoli no ka GDP o Thailand i hoʻopaʻa ʻia he 6.1% i 2020 ma muli o Covid-19.

NA LANA AINA

Ua kāpae ʻia nā ʻaelike hoʻolimalima a me ka hoʻolimalima kūʻai ʻana ma nā mokulele 16 a ua kūʻai ʻia he 42 mau mokulele maikaʻi ʻole, 38 mau mokulele hana i koe, ʻehā ma mua o ʻeiwa mau ʻano. Ke hoʻomau nei nā 20 A320s e hana ma lalo o ka hui mokulele haʻahaʻa haʻahaʻa, Thai Smile, e hāʻawi ana i ka hui 58 mokulele. Photo: He A350 hou i ka makahiki 2016 /AJWood

I ka mahina i hala aku nei ua hoʻolaha ʻo Thai Airways e kūʻai aku lākou i nā mokulele 42 a hoʻemi i kāna mau limahana hana ma kahi kokoke i hoʻokahi hapakolu ke hoʻomau nei ʻo ia i ka hoʻoponopono hou ʻana i ka ʻoihana. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Piyasvasti Amranand, ke poʻo o ka hoʻoponopono hou ʻana, ʻo nā mokulele i kūʻai ʻia he mau hiʻohiʻona kahiko ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi a e hoʻihoʻi ia i 16 mau mokulele i nā mea liʻiliʻi.

E haʻalele kēlā iā Thai Airways me nā ʻauwaʻa he 58 mau mokulele. E ʻoki ʻia ka poʻe hana mai ka 21,300 a i ka 14,500 e Dekemaba 2022. Ke kamaʻilio pū nei ka mokulele me ke aupuni no kahi hōʻaiʻē hou he 25 biliona baht.

He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:

And according to the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) in 2019, the tourism sector was projected to grow and in the next ten years would account for 30% of GDP by 2030, up from 20% in 2019.
With the pandemic, it had been 19 months since my last pint in a Bangkok pub and as I sat there it all seemed so normal, so real as though nothing had passed.
What lay in store for the industry I had been involved in for more than 4 decades.