The 24.70 Baht Competitor
On 31 August, five million Thai citizens get free access to the world’s best AI tools. Here is what that changes for your business in Chiang Mai. At half past one in the afternoon on Wednesday 19 August, 307,425 people…
CMBN Staff
The Verification Gap
What AI actually says about Chiang Mai businesses, why the schema fix does not work, and where local authority is really built Ask any assistant for the opening hours of a small business in Chiang Mai and the answer arrives…
กระท่อม Kratom: Thailand’s Quiet Economic Crop
Walk through the herb section of Warorot Market on any weekday morning and something has changed. On several of the older stalls, tucked between the dried galangal, the bundles of lemongrass, and the jars of tamarind paste, there are small…
Google has published the rules for AI search. Most Chiang Mai businesses have not read them.
A search for “best boutique hotel Chiang Mai” now returns a paragraph before it returns a hotel. The paragraph names two or three properties, explains in a sentence each why they are worth booking, and places small citation links beside…
Trapped Behind the Scam: Why Chiang Mai Businesses Are Closer to This Than They Think
30 July is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This year the United Nations has pointed the day directly at a crime that runs through job adverts, bank accounts and border towns a few hours from here. Most business owners…
The 36.8 Microgram Problem: What Burning Season Actually Costs Chiang Mai Tourism
From a rooftop bar on Nimmanhaemin in the second week of March, Doi Suthep is not there. The mountain rises to the west of the old city, more than a kilometre above it. For roughly 10 weeks each year it…
Thailand’s coding pipeline just produced a gold medallist in Rome
In a competition hall in Rome during the first week of July, a 12-year-old Year 7 student from Thailand sat down at a keyboard alongside 713 other finalists from 54 countries. When the International STEM Olympiad Grand Final closed on…
Chiang Mai Is About to Introduce Itself to the World
The footpaths around the moat have fresh paint. Cables that sagged across shopfronts for years have been bundled and reclipped. Billboards near the old gates are coming down. The city is getting ready, and this time the preparation is not…
Chiang Mai ranks third best city in the world in Travel + Leisure 2026 World’s Best Awards
From most rooftops in Chiang Mai you can see the Doi Suthep range to the west and temple spires in every other direction. That geography and that cultural density just placed the city third in the world in Travel +…
Thailand’s Quiet Chocolate Revolution
In a converted farm building in the Mae On valley, 40 minutes east of Chiang Mai Old City, a single-origin cacao bean is fermented, roasted and pressed into a finished bar without leaving the property. The output at the Skugga…