Industries

Thailand and Myanmar to collaborate on cultural promotion worldwide

The government of Myanmar has agreed to cooperate with Thailand on five cultural matters so that both countries can promote their related cultures to the world.Keep reading ...

Itiporn Lakarnchua

Businesses, TAT plan to curb plastic

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) plans to join with businesses in the tourism sector to reduce single-use plastic materials by 50% in three years under its new campaign called “National Cleaning Declaration”.Keep reading. ...

Bangkok Post Reporter

Tourism seen spurring infra, boosting livelihoods

The tourism industry will serve as a key driver for Asean countries to increase their investments in infrastructure and improve the living standards of people within the region, said Wouter Schalken, senior tourism specialist of the World Bank Group.Keep reading ...

Somluck Srimalee

Restoring Maya Bay: Closure not enough

Starting this month, the tiny and stunningly scenic Maya Bay off Thailand’s Andaman coast, made famous by Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2000 film The Beach, is closed to visitors. Two decades of being Thailand’s top tourist attraction has overwhelmed the island’s ecology.Keep reading ...

Pennapa Hongthong

Mekong scorecard highs and lows

The Mekong Region’s tourism scorecards showed positive and stable growth in tourist arrivals over the last four years, but new challenges have emerged for the region.Keep reading ...

Don Ross

Thailand ‘must prepare ground for challenges ahead’

Thailand faces many challenges ahead as it seeks to transition the country to succeed in the era of automation and digitalisation with the 4.0 initiative.The country needs to prepare itself to meet Thailand 4.0’s manufacturing environment as well as respond to the expansion of Chinese ...

Kwanchai Rungfapaisarn

Thailand plans regional infrastructure fund to reduce China dependence

Thailand is taking the lead in creating a regional fund with its neighbors, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, to back infrastructure and other development projects and to lessen reliance on Chinese investment. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is expected to propose the idea to the leaders ...

Yukako Ono

Saving paradise by setting limits

Thailand’s renowned national parks phase in a green path to make tourism sustainable.Maya Bay has finally been closed down. On Thursday (May 31), park rangers at Had Nopparat Tara-Mu Ko Phi Phi marine national park placed buoys demarcating a no-access zone to prevent tourist boats ...

Piyaporn Wongruang

Build it and they will come: How Thailand’s great infrastructure leap is reshaping tourism

Thailand’s great push forward on mega-transportation projects is seeing strong dividends being paid in its tourism industry, reports Bill Barnett, founder and Managing Director of hotel industry expert consultancy C9 Hotelworks.Keep reading ...

Thailand to host World Gastronomy Forum

The fourth annual Forum, organised by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation and the Basque Culinary Centre, is taking place from May 30 to June 1 in Thailand, the first country in Asia to host the event.Keep reading ...

The Nation Reporter

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