Transcript of the above video:

As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the possibility of 24-hour drinking in Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor. For those who are unaware, the Eastern Economic Corridor in Thailand makes up the three provinces of Chachoengsao, Chonburi and Rayong. These are province's which have been designated part of the Eastern Economic Corridor; there are a lot of special concessions now associated with doing business in the Eastern Economic Corridor. I urge those who are watching this video, go to the search function in our channel or go over to the resources section of legal.co.th, that's our website, and go in to the search function there and just type in Eastern Economic Corridor, you can learn a lot more about the Corridor itself.

That said, I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, that is pattayamail.com, the article is titled: Pattaya one tiny step nearer to 24-hours drinking. Quoting directly: "The official news that Thailand's Eastern Aviation City, 60 kilometers from Bangkok, is to have 24-hours booze sales shouldn't set the champagne corks popping just yet. The only part of the "City" that has actually been built is U-tapao Airport so the Interior Ministry's announcement in The Royal Gazette just brings the rules into line with Bangkok’s passenger air hubs. The rest of the multi-billion Baht "City", a flagship initiative of the Eastern Economic Corridor, will take years to complete. Damrongriet Pinitkarn, Secretary of the lobbying group Pattaya Entertainments Association, has been campaigning vigorously to see the cash tills ringing later. The two new Move Forward MPs for Pattaya say they will lobby the new Parliament as well. They all stress that the bars and clubs need to maximize their income to compensate for the ghost town reality during the pandemic." 

Yeah, as discussed on this channel at length, it was really hard to watch the utter decimation of the, especially the tourism oriented sector of the economy here in Thailand and I think that look as of now there are closing times in different areas associated with drinking. Those closing times have, they are not something that, it's not a real popular policy if you will with the folks that are owners and vendors in the food and beverage field. Now if the Eastern Economic Corridor does become sort of an epicenter of global and regional trade and travel, it stands to reason that maybe it should be treated a little bit differently especially in terms of things like drinking times, drinking hours, especially if you are seeing people coming in from all parts of the world. They may come into Thailand at 2 or 3 a.m. and they want to have a drink before getting on with their business, whatever they are doing.

So it remains to be seen how this exact actually plays out. It will be interesting to see if the EEC ultimately ends up having different rules regarding drinking in that location. We will certainly keep you updated on this channel as the situation evolves.