Samui's airport is the island's real constraint — and its biggest opportunity
Samui airport handled roughly three million passengers in 2025 and is being rebuilt for six. Here is what more seats mean for anyone running rooms on the island.
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Insights
Notes on hospitality, property and the practical side of doing business in Koh Samui.
Nightly villa rentals and the Hotel Act: what owners keep getting wrong
Letting a Thai property for stays under 30 days generally requires a hotel licence. Enforcement has tightened, and the workarounds owners rely on are the ones being tested.
Read ↗Three million visitors, half the water: Samui's quiet operating risk
The island's pipeline supplies well under half of what it needs. For hospitality operators, water and waste are no longer facilities issues — they are commercial ones.
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