{"id":21547,"date":"2012-05-29T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/chiang-mai-death-hotel-is-coming-down-3\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T04:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T04:32:00","slug":"chiang-mai-death-hotel-is-coming-down-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/05\/chiang-mai-death-hotel-is-coming-down-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiang Mai death hotel is coming down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RVdbk1m8cO8\/T8RRVVIvmOI\/AAAAAAAAVQU\/x2NTLV-_gVo\/s1600\/downtown-inn.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-RVdbk1m8cO8\/T8RRVVIvmOI\/AAAAAAAAVQU\/x2NTLV-_gVo\/s1600\/downtown-inn.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> by Ian Jarrett\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelmole.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TravelMole<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chiang Mai hotel at the centre of a mystery after four guests &#8211; three of them tourists &#8211; died at the northern Thailand property, is being demolished to make way for a new hotel. <\/p>\n<p>The Downtown Inn made headlines amid claims that chemicals used there might have caused the deaths. <\/p>\n<p>A British couple, a 23-year-old New Zealander, and a Thai tour guide all died within 16 days in adjoining rooms at the three-star Downtown Inn in February 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Thai health authorities initially blamed &#8220;toxic seaweed&#8221; for one of the deaths, but it later emerged that hotel staff might have been over-zealous with the use of pesticides to remove bed bugs. <\/p>\n<p>The Bangkok Post reported that an official report &#8211; released after a five-month probe into the incidents &#8211; concluded that three of the deaths were probably connected to the use of pesticides. <\/p>\n<p>Chiang Mai authorities have subsequently introduced a series of public health safety measures which they hope will offer greater protection to tourists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ian Jarrett\/ TravelMole The Chiang Mai hotel at the centre of a mystery after four guests &#8211; three of them tourists &#8211; died at the northern Thailand property, is being demolished to make way for a new hotel. The Downtown Inn made headlines amid claims that chemicals used there might have caused the deaths. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anantara","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}