Reply #1: Tourism industry

[sandnsea]

This story isn't being told and it's starting to piss me off.

"Sulamee Prachuab, who heads the department’s Seismological Bureau, said the agency needed to be cautious because the government’s tourism agency deems that such warnings would hurt tourism if a predicted natural disaster didn’t occur.

The department did issue warnings of the impending tidal wave Sunday, but broadcasts beamed to tourist resorts in the country’s south underestimated the threat, and a website caution was not posted until three hours after the first deluge hit southern Thailand’s resorts."
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3934784