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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) on Wednesday approved Chiang Mai’s Doi Chiang Dao as a new biosphere reserve – the fifth site in Thailand to receive the prestigious listing.
Here's something to rattle your brain: we're now past the halfway point of 2021. It's hard to count days when we find ourselves stuck indoors on an endless loop of never-ending Covid cases, a government that denies reality and protests from people who are fed up and tired of all the crap happening around them.
Samui ferry promotion Koh Samui in Surat Thani. Photo © Tourism Authority of Thailand Raja Ferry has launched a one price promotion ticket for visitors to travel to both Koh Samui and Koh Phangan in Surat Thani. It aims to support the government's policy to promote tourism on Koh Samui, known as the Samui Plus project, which launched in the middle of July. The round-trip promotion price is 1,990 baht, reduced from 4,920 baht. The fare includes a ferry fee for one car with a driver and up to three passengers to travel from Don Sak pier at the Surat Thani mainland...
New five-star hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand, first since pandemic began, to be opened by Spanish chain Melia A room at the Melia Chiang Mai, which will open in the city centre of Chiang Mai, Thailand, in the fourth quarter of this year. Photo: Handout Like many cities in Southeast Asia that rely heavily on tourism, Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. With no international tourists having arrived for 18 months, most small tourism-related companies have simply gone out of business. Occupancy in 40 Chiang Mai hotels surveyed by the Northern Chapter o...
Two piers in South get upgrade published : 3 Jun 2021 at 04:00 The Marine Department is upgrading two piers in Trang and Krabi. The total budget is almost 200 million baht of which 140 million baht has been allocated to refurbish Pak Meng Pier in Trang province and 59.6 million baht to expand the Sala Dan Pier in Koh Lanta in Krabi. Both projects are more than 70% complete. The Pak Meng Pier in Trang was built over 20 years ago and needs to be expanded as the facility is too small to handle the increasing number of tourists. The new facility will have a building to accommodate additional...