Lasting damage? Protesters stand behind a barricade of burning tires in Bangkok this week. Photographs: Jerry Lampen/Reuters and Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
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Many foreign governments still have travel warnings, and the images of horror on the streets of Bangkok will linger beyond the news cycle, particularly when people are trying to decide where to take their next exotic holiday. There is fear among hotel workers, taxi drivers and others reliant on tourist money in the city that this could be a difficult one to recover from. The Land of Smiles has lost a lot of goodwill during the past few months of protracted unrest. People don’t want to gamble the success of their honeymoon on whether or not the airport in Bangkok is open.
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Thais are bewildered about what happened to their Land of Smiles. But with typical pragmatism, they take their bulldozers and remove the hulking, scorched barricades surrounding Bangkok’s heart.
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