Tourism

Nine travel routes identified by the Tourism Authority of Thailand will be promoted by Mekong Moments a social media platform run by the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office.The social commerce web platform Mekong Moments, now in its third year, uses social media to promote tourism to ...

Almost 70 hotels on Phuket have pledged to reduce plastic use – the first in a raft of measures to conserve and preserve the Thai islandAs mass tourism becomes an issue across the globe, Phuket hoteliers have united around urgent measures to ensure plastic and ...

The Thai village of Sob Ruak, at the heart of the Golden Triangle region where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet, is no exception. Tour buses routinely disgorge thousands of Chinese tourists to buy trinkets, snap selfies and tour the nearby Hall of Opium Museum. And ...

Thailand has devised a tourism development plan for the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) with a five-year public and private budget of about Bt200 billion.Tourist numbers are expected to surge by 1.5 times within 2021, Kalin Sarasin, chairman of the Board of Trade of Thailand who ...

Leading hotels and tourism groups have signed the “Phuket Pledge” at Phuket Hotels for Islands Sustaining Tourism Forum 2018 (PHIST) establishing a model for the future development of islands throughout Asia that embraces sustainability as a core and sets urgent goals for long-term change.Keep reading ...

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha has ordered the Board of Investment (BoI) to consider measures in support of tourism in the provinces to boost rural economic growth, BOI’s secretary general Duangjai Asawachintachit said. She said after a meeting of the BOI’s board of committee, chaired by ...

The Department of International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, in collaboration with the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (OSMEP) and the Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (DASTA), is co-organising a Brainstorming Workshop towards an APEC Green Road: Promoting Responsible ...

The Thai tourism industry will be a major beneficiary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as the Royal Thai Government moves rapidly to take advantage of the increased investment and trade opportunities it will create, not just within Thailand but across the ASEAN and ...

Five million travellers stayed at Airbnb accommodation in the Greater Mekong region in 2017, generating income of UScopy.67 billion (55 billion baht). The home-sharing service revealed that guests in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam were up 147% year-on-year. Keep reading ...

As technology advances further, people except information to be readily available. E-tourism, which entails digitalising tourism in Thailand, has contributed positively to the Thai economy.Keep reading ...