I’m normally not a huge fan of infographics…perhaps because so many of them are done so poorly. That is not the case with this Thailand Infographic produced by Thomson UK. For such a small image, they packed it with great information and fun facts about Thailand. Check it out below! Rediscover your senses in Thailand [...]
I was stunned, amazed and speechless after reading today that “Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong Area Aims To Emulate Singapore’s Orchard Road”. Where to start with this? First of all, why does anyone feel that emulating Orchard Road is good or necessary? The truth is there is only one Orchard Road and there is no need for another [...]
Over the past few weeks we’ve touched on the perception of Pattaya among foreigners as well as having a discussion about the future direction of the city. Both posts were quite popular and incited many comments and loads of discussion. And now it seems as if we are not the only ones thinking of the [...]
For the last few years the Tourism Authority of Thailand has stopped releasing official tourism numbers. Obviously this makes it very difficult to judge the true state of tourism in Thailand, however TAT themselves have sent a message recently that things are probably pretty dire. Even though anecdotal evidence indicated otherwise TAT has continued to [...]
It’s certainly been a tough few years for anyone in the tourism industry in Thailand. First we had the PAD takeover of Suvarnubhumi airport in December of 2008 which had a severe impact of that years’ high season for tourism and even impacted this years’ high season if anecdotal evidence is to be believed. And [...]
Below is the short story released by the National News Bureau of Thailand yesterday regarding the attempt to bring Americans back to Thailand. Since mid 2008 American tourism to Thailand has dropped by over half and this seems to be TAT’s response to the lack of American tourists in Thailand. TAT Introducing Thai Tourism to [...]
On Monday it was announced by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej that he is considering legalizing gambling in Thailand. He plans on following in the footsteps of Macau, Singapore and Malaysia, but did not give details about what types of gambling would be allowed. He did mention however that this move would mean that there would [...]
