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TAT launches Entry Thailand platform
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/04/2021
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand has unveiled "Entry Thailand", an online platform to facilitate vaccinated international visitors to Thailand.
Learn muay Thai
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 19/09/2019
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched the Awesome Muay Thai guidebook.
Thailand tourism healthy
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 07/09/2017
» Thailand is likely to meet its target of 35 million international visitors this year, according to a study by the Kasikorn Research Centre.
Spreading Thainess
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 14/08/2017
» Many retire at the age of 60, but not Theeratep Promvongsanon, aged 62. After retiring as the consul-general of the Royal Thai Consulate in Sydney, Australia, he became director of the Thailand Foundation.
It's looking sunnier in Songkhla
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 17/12/2015
» Visitors stand in long queues at the Sadao immigration checkpoint in Songkhla, one of Thailand's first five Special Economic Zones (SEZ). Thanks to the good condition of roads and convenient public transportation, it's easy for people to travel by land between Thailand and Malaysia. Visitors from Thailand can continue their journey further south to Langkawi, Penang (see the box), Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, and even to Singapore. On the other hand, there are often car rallies from Malaysia travelling to the northernmost province of Thailand, then across to Laos and China.
Don Mueang showing its age
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 27/10/2015
» When Don Mueang airport reopened eight years ago, the executives of Airports of Thailand (AoT) probably could never have predicted that the airport would become overcrowded so fast. However, they should have come up with a strategic plan a couple of years ago before the airport exceeded its capacity.
Students as guides
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 10/09/2015
» The Tourism Department of the Tourism and Sports Ministry has introduced the "Little Hosts" project to train primary school students to be local guides.
Visitor numbers down
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 15/01/2015
» The total number of international tourists visiting Thailand in 2014 was short of the 25 million target, at 24.7 million visitors.
Museum of magic art
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 12/06/2014
» The Magic Art Museum Bangkok has opened at MBK Centre, on the seventh floor, and is run by Fresh Air Festival, a Bangkok-based creative event organiser.
The power of positive thinking
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 13/03/2014
» Political demonstrations in Bangkok have reached their fifth month and look set to continue, as do the incidents of violence that have occurred at protest sites and during marches. The political turmoil has also affected the tourism industry and scared away a number of international tourists, especially those from the Middle East, some countries in Europe and South Asia. Despite this, 2,319,821 people made the trip to Thailand in January, up 0.06% from the same period of last year.