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Nearly 40% of Andaman Spa Businesses Struggling to Recover

BANGKOK, Jan 27 (TNA) – A huge number of spa businesses in Thailand's six southern Andaman provinces affected by last month’s tsunamis are still struggling to recover their operations, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

While spas on the resort island of Phuket have got off relatively lightly, with only around 20 percent affected, elsewhere the damage is much higher.

In Krabi Province, over 66 percent of spas have reported damage to their businesses, and in Phang-nga the figure is as high as 73 percent.

Today the Department for Health Service Support, which oversees Thailand’s burgeoning spa industry, said that it would offer assistance to spas which had gained government quality certification, as well as those whose applications for certification were in the pipeline.

The department will also work to restore the confidence of foreign tourists by arranging a series of seminars in hotels in the affected region.