ABSTRACT
Motorbike transport is currently one of the main public transportation in many urban areas of the well-known tourist cities in Thailand due to income generation for low income families. However, nowadays there are pyramid scheme issues happening among public motorbike workers in the community of the motorbike transportation businesses. This research was, thus, conducted to understand the ecosystem of the informal economy in motorbike transportation businesses in Pattaya City, Thailand. Our study approach consists of doing research from the published journals and doing face-to-face survey interviews with the local motorbike workers in Pattaya City. The findings indicated that urbanization of the Pattaya City and undeveloped plan for preparing local public transportation from the city transportation department have a significant impact on the community of the informal motorbike transport workers and the local influential people cause the pyramid scheme issues among the informal motorbike workers. Lastly, the pyramid issues will be solved if the department of city transportation legislates a new law to protect the local informal motorbike workers from the local influential people.
KEYWORDS
Motorbike Taxi, Informal Economy, Economic Rent, Tribute