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The Tourism Authority of Thailand is planning to launch many promotions to revive tourists' self esteem in Hat Yai immediately after several bookings were cancelled subsequent final Saturday's bomb assault. On the Songkran dance defeat: Adult females police officers conduct a dance at Bangkok's Ratchaprasong intersection to raise awareness about safe and sound driving in the course of the approaching Songkran festival as component of a wider campaign by police to scale back fatalities and accidents from street mishaps during the getaway period of time. (Photograph by Somchai Poomlard) новости из таиланда Sansern Ngaorungsi, TAT deputy governor for Asia along with the South Pacific,. stated the bombing had led into the cancellation of about 50% of bookings to the Songkran festival. Tour operators also cancelled all journeys to Hat Yai. вся правда о таиланде It really is predicted that tourism income in Hat Yai in Songkhla province will drop to twelve billion baht this 12 months from sixteen billion baht very last year, even though the amount of visitors is expected to plunge by half to a hundred,000. правдивая информация о таиланде TAT governor Surapol Svetaseni led tourism enterprise operators from Bangkok to Hat Yai yesterday to satisfy local operators in order that they could go over solutions to restore the confidence of tourists following the bomb assault. Surapol: Self-confident visitors will return вся правда о таиланде Approximately noon last Saturday, a bomb exploded in a car or truck parked from the basement of Lee Gardens Plaza Lodge and killed a few individuals, which include 1 Malaysian vacationer. Hundreds have been wounded. Two suspects are arrested.

The assault took place concurrently as three other bombings inside the downtown location of Yala province that killed eleven men and women.

Mr Surapol said TAT has setup strategic options to rebuild the tourism business in Hat Yai. The authority will organise excursions to convey tourism company operators and organizations from vital vacationer markets, particularly Malaysia and Singapore, to go to Hat Yai throughout Songkran. Hat Yai is among the prime locations for Songkran festivities. New sights in Hat Yai and Songkhla will probably be advertised each internationally and domestically.

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"I'm confident the effect is not going to final prolonged. Hat Yai is going to be one of places for the Thailand Grand Sale celebration for being held in July that is certainly anticipated to bring in a lot more than 500,000 site visitors," Mr Surapol said.

Somchart Pimthanapoonporn, president of Songkhla Tourism Company Council plus the Hat Yai-Songkhla Hoteliers Association, claimed if Hat Yai obtained the complete assist of a promotion campaign, it could recover within a few months. Grisada Boonrach, the governor of Songkhla province, reported the province would adopt a "Five Deductions" campaign to appeal to travellers back again to Hat Yai and Songkhla.

The deductions is going to be created within the price ranges of foodstuff, accommodation, transport, items and products and services.