“For Sell” signs are spring up like mushroom in Chiang Mai, with many businesses closing down shockingly.

Chiang Mai is a city where every brand wants to open a store or branch at least once in their life.

Chiang Mai is an attractive city for tourists, a city that “looks like it can sell”. But do you know that it can only sell during the winter, festivals, and holidays? Because after Songkran, you have to face the reality that sales will be gone until October. This is the real life of a tourist city.

Chiang Mai is considered by many to be the “hardest city” for doing business. The cost of living is constantly rising [1], the minimum wage is less than 400 baht, there are no enough essential public utilities, public toilets, public transportation, and the smog season that occurs every year etc.

Travelers in Chiang Mai from 2018 to 2024.

 
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