Advertise Here Thailand’s government has pencilled in a budget of 6.34 billion baht (US$200 million) for its new tourism campaign for 2012. One of the Thai government’s plan is to lengthen cultural events, such as Loy Krathong (Pictured) to engage more foreign tourists. ‘Miracle Thailand Year 2012’ is due to start in late March or [...]
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Thailand’s Tourism and Sports Minister Chumpol Silpa-archa said that flooding that has affected nearly one-third of the country is having no impact on the country’s significant tourism sector. The minister referred to a discussion about the situation with a number of tourism operators who said that foreign tourists normally travel by plane, and were not [...]
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Thailand’s Minister for Tourism and Sports and Deputy Prime Minister Chumpol Silpa-archa has announced that the Kingdom will aim for the ambitious target of 30 million tourists by 2015. The target figure would bring in roughly 1.4 trillion baht worth of revenue. While speaking at a meeting of senior officials yesterday, Mr Chumpol said that [...]
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You would think after being judged by a top US travel magazine as the ‘World’s Best City,’ and being voted as the ‘Best Value City’ by one of the web’s leading travel websites that Thailand’s new tourism minister would have his work cut out for him. Apparently, that is not the case for Chart Thai [...]
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