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Monday, 30 June 2008 03:41 |
The International Wax Sculpture 1 - 31 July 2008
Week 1 : 1 - 6 July 2008 "Visit the Artisan Community"
Activities
- Opening the 3rd International Wax Sculpture
- Visit to candle crafting communities and learn the insights into an ancient artistic
tradition and local culture.
- Gathering of art students from all art institute in Thailand.
- Activity "I-san Tourism Year"
- Start of wax sculptures by International artists.
- Displays of local... |
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 04:11 |
Yasothon Bun Bangfai Rocket Festival
Annual ritual to ensure that the seasonal rains fall at the appropriate time in the planting cycle. In the process, Buddhist merit-making traditions are also observed and reinforced. The festival, which is held over a period of three days, strengthens community spirit. The first day known as “Wan Suk |Dip†features a ritual to play homage to Chao Pu, the spirit of the city pillar. The second day is the rocket procession day. Each is escorted by a colourful dance troupe. The rocket are finally launched on the third day in which various rockets and beauty contests are held. It is also a day for the ordination of novices with festive celebrations following merit-making rituals.
Contact :
TAT Northeastern Office : Region 2
Tel : 0 4524 3770-1
Yasothon Municipality Office
Tel : 0 4571 1397 Ext. : 112
Website : www.tat.or.th/festival
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 10:49 |
Thailand Travel Mart Plus is a unique trade fair that showcases Thailand and the Mekong region to the international travel industry. As part of the buyer and media hosting programme for TTM+, TAT aims to bring more than 400 buyers and media from all over the world to meet and transact business with travel suppliers from the various regions of Thailand and the diverse countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion.
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Friday, 18 April 2008 08:09 |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:58 |
Recommend Book for Thailand Tour
 
Thailand (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)
by Rosalyn Thiro (Editor), Jonathan Cox (Editor), Marcus Hardy (Editor), Tim Hollis (Editor), Lesley McCave... |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 08:30 |
Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year’s celebration, also known as the “Water Festivalâ€, and one of the more light-hearted aspects of the festivities is throwing water at each other. Thai people believe that water, as a symbol of cleansing and renewal, will wash away bad luck.
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Songkran Festival
Date: 13 – 14 April 2008
Venue: Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Historical Park, Wihan Phramongkhon Bophit, and around the island city, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya
Activities : Making merit to the monks,... |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 05:55 |
Chiang Mai Songkran Festival
Date : 13-15 April 2008
Venue : Chiang Mai
Partake in this ancient spectacle in Chiang Mai with merit-making activities, a procession of Buddha images and bathing rituals, the sprinkling of lustral water to seek the blessing of elders, sand-stupa building, folk games, Lanna cultural shows and water throwing.
Contact:
TAT Northern Office : Region 1
Tel : 0 5324 8604, 0 5324 8607, 0 5324 1466
Chiang Mai Municipality Office
Tel : 0 5325 2478
Hat Yai Midnight Songkran Festival
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 13:17 |
NATIONWIDE BAN ON SMOKING IN PUBS, CLUBS, TAKES EFFECT
Thailand has further extended a national ban on smoking in public areas to include pubs, restaurants, discos and market-places, both open-air and air-conditioned.
Previously, the regulations applied only to public buildings and closed air-conditioned areas. The regulations took effect February 11, 2008.
Individual violators can be fined as much as 2,000 baht (US$65). If any public places violate the rules, they will be warned but after May 31, 2008, they will be fined 20,000 baht.
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 02:55 |
Packages & Promotions
72 Hours Amazing Thailand
The Tourism Authority of Thailand together with MasterCard has launched “72 Hours Amazing Thailand†– a dedicated campaign presenting a host of exciting activities and special privileges exclusively for MasterCard cardholders visiting Thailand.
Mrs. Juthaporn Rerngronasa, Deputy Governor for International Marketing, Tourism Authority of Thailand, said, “72 Hours Amazing Thailand offers a new way for tourists to explore the beauty of Thailand within 72 hours. The campaign introduces customized travel routes and activities for MasterCard cardholders, as well as showcases a collection of Thailand’s newest and most stylish resorts and hotels, hip shopping destinations, luxurious pampering hideaways, chic dining outlets and top golf courses.â€
“We are targeting the 72 Hours Amazing Thailand campaign at the mass affluent consumer, aged over 25 years old, who enjoys traveling and... |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 02:45 |
TAT ADOPTS E-MARKETING STRATEGY FOR ‘AMAZING THAILAND’
With an ever-increasing number of individual travellers worldwide planning and purchasing their trips online, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is preparing to launch a multi-sectoral e-marketing campaign targeted at a number of key customer segments worldwide. The intention is to significantly increase Thailand’s online presence and the country’s share of tourism revenue generated online.
TAT recently hosted an exclusive trade launch to unveil “e-Marketing for Amazing Thailand 2008†— Thailand’s latest destination marketing initiative which incorporates the use of the e-marketing channels to promote ‘Amazing Thailand’ online. Members of the Thai travel and tourism industry were briefed on the campaign and invited to provide appropriate product information, package deals and updates of their rates, services and special offers for inclusion in the... |
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 07:36 |
The Most Popular Sightseeing Combinations: Recommended Itinerary :Welcome to Bang Pa-In Palace
The Royal Palace at Bang Pa-In has a history dating back to the 17 th century. According to a chronicle of Ayutthaya, King Prasat Thong (1629-1656) had a palace constructed on Bang Pa-In Island in the Chao Phraya River. A contemporary Dutch merchant, Jeremias van Vliet, reported that King Prasat Thong was an illegitimate son of King Ekathotsarot (1605-1610/11), who in his youth was shipwrecked on that island and had son by a woman who befriended him. The boy grew up to... |
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Friday, 08 February 2008 14:26 |
A stupa (from the PÄli) is a type of Buddhist mound-like structure found across the Indian subcontinent, other parts of Asia, and increasingly in the Western World.
Stupas are known in many Southeast Asian countries as chedi, for example Thai เจดีย์ (from a PÄli synonym of stupa: Chaitya); in some countries (particularly Sri Lanka) as dagoba (from Sanskrit dhatu, an element, component, or relic; and garbha, a storehouse or repository); or as tope (from Hindi top, derived from Sanskrit stÅ«pa, a heap).
Stupas are an ancient form of mandalas.
Description and history
The stupa is the latest Buddhist religious monument and was originally only a simple mound of mud or clay to cover supposed relics of the Buddha. After the "passing away" of the Buddha, his remains were cremated and the ashes divided and buried under eight stupas with two further stupas encasing the urn and the embers. Little is known about... |
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Friday, 08 February 2008 14:17 |
Thailand’s reputation as a safe and peaceful destination is attracting thousands of foreigners from all over the world to learn more about the 2,547-year-old Buddhist faith and one of its most famous practices, the art of meditation. At Wat Mahathat, the primary centre of meditation studies in Bangkok, nearly 4,000 foreigners have taken courses between 1998 and 2003, and monks are predicting steady growth in the years ahead.
Although Buddhism is the dominant religion in Sri Lanka, Bhutan, throughout the Mekong region, China and Northeast Asia, Thailand has gained an influential position as a centre of learning and knowledge. Major institutions like the World Fellowship of Buddhists and the Mahachulalongkorn-rajavidyalaya Buddhist University are located in Bangkok. Visits to prominent temples accompanied by laymen’s explanations of the faith are standard features of tours taken by the 10 million visitors who travel to Thailand each year.
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Friday, 08 February 2008 14:07 |
The Thai New Year (Thai: สงà¸à¸£à¸²à¸™à¸•à¹Œ Songkran) is celebrated every year on 13 April to 15 April. It is also celebrated in Laos (called pi mai lao or 'Lao New Year' in Lao), Cambodia, Myanmar (where it is called Thingyan), and by the Dai people in Yunnan, China. Sri Lanka also celebrates a similar festival called Sinhalese and Tamil New Year on the same dates. The same date is celebrated widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, albeit based on the astrological event of the sun beginning its northward journey.
The date of the festival was originally set by astrological calculation, but it is now fixed. If these days fall on a weekend, the missed days off are taken on the weekdays immediately following. Songkran falls in the hottest time of the year in Thailand, at the end of the dry season. Until 1888 the Thai New Year was the beginning of the year in Thailand; thereafter 1 April was used until 1940. 1 January is now the beginning of the year. The traditional... |
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