Thai heritage sites could lose Unesco's funding and protection after Thailand withdrew from Unesco

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According to paragraph 244 of the Operational Guidelines for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, International Assistance requests must be transmitted by a State Party National Commission for UNESCO or Permanent Delegation to UNESCO, or an appropriate governmental Department or Ministry. Individuals who do not represent one of these bodies are therefore not entitled to submit requests for International Assistance.

Thailand should study carefully articles 13.1, 13.2 and 19 to 26 of Unesco's International Assistance under the World Heritage Convention, which is an assistance granted to the State Parties to the World Heritage Convention, in order to help them protect the World Cultural or Natural Heritage located on their territories and inscribed on the World Heritage List.

Thailand have tourist sites that are listed by UNESCO and received the funding and protection from UNESCO. Now Thailand has quit UNESCO, it's possible that those listed tourist sites could be delisted from UNESCO's heritage list and they will not be eligible for funding and protection after Thailand had withdrawn its membership from Unesco. Thailand might have to return the title to Unesco and not promote those former sites as UNESCO-listed sites anymore, as only members of UNESCO are allowed to claim the title.