Siege at Bangkok airports cost US$8b
08-01-2009
Anti-government protests that shut down Bangkok's airports for more than a week last year have cost Thailand more than US$8 billion. The country's central bank said the losses were equivalent to three per cent of GDP. It said the losses were more serious than those caused by SARS or the Asian tsunami and it predicted that the number of tourists visiting Thailand would fall by almost nine per cent this year.
