Playground no more: Thais sick of badly behaved tourists hail stricter visas

Key points

• It’s late afternoon at Bangkok’s Khaosan road, the city’s backpacker strip.
• Bar staff are calling after passersby, enticing them inside with drinks promotions.
• The smell of cannabis, widely sold in the city, wafts into the street, where vendors sell anything from fake tattoos, flip-flops and icy fruit shakes.
• This street, and its famously noisy nightlife, has attracted visitors from around the world for decades.
• But increasingly, some in Thailand are growing tired of the country’s party-loving visitors.