An Irish tourist reportedly fell from a five-star hotel in Pattaya, Thailand, and died.

The 67-year-old man is said to have fallen from the 31st floor of the Grande Centre Point Pattaya Hotel in the early hours of Monday morning.

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Police Captain Chanan Kesornbua said police received a report at 5:06 a.m.

When officers arrived at the scene, hotel security guards had cordoned off the area with iron tarpaulins.

The guest reportedly hit the edge of a window before landing on the floor.

The police have now launched an investigation into the death.

The official cause of the fall has not yet been determined as officials will review video surveillance footage.

Police Captain Chanan said: “We took photographs of the crime scene as evidence.

“As for the cause of the fall, we still have to determine whether it was an accident or not.

“We will review the video footage.”

The tourist’s body was taken to Bang Lamung Hospital to be handed over to his family.

Only five days earlier, a German survived a fall from the balcony on the third floor of a hotel, also in Pattaya.

The 21-year-old reportedly fell from the third-floor balcony and then through the awning roof of a luxury hotel on Pattaya Sai Song Road in the early morning of August 14.

He was found alive and taken to hospital with serious injuries.

The former fishing village of Pattaya was very popular with American troops in the 1960s when they had bases in Thailand and came there for rest and relaxation.

In the following years, the coastal town developed into a semi-barbaric hellscape of sex tourism.

Authorities have made progress in gentrifying the region with family tourism projects, but excessive nightlife and a corrupt police force are hampering their efforts. Undesirables from all over the world continue to flock to the run-down city.