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Thai Cabinet Proposes Extra Holidays for 2025


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This governmental hot air released through the backside means, that the private industry pays for more holidays. The end is, that the industry makes less money due to higher costs for the same output and that means less tax income with then is whined about in connection with the purchase of most essential stuff for the country, i.e. three submarines.

You simply cannot make up such nonsense; it happens here on a daily basis for decades already ...... and everybody is a bystander and watches silently - how pathetic! 

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1 hour ago, Emdog said:

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems most of those who take these holidays are either government employees (I won't use the word "workers") or those at banks.

Silver lining might be if gov workers are off those days, it will be one less day they can put the squeeze on people and/or find other means to screw up working people's lives

Unless you are a bank employee at a shopping mall branch, open 7 days a week.

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5 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

The government is on a different planet.

Rural (poor) farmers cannot take extra holidays.

Businesses are struggling and now people are going to work less or incur extra costs.

Even if folk are having the extra days off, the only people that can afford to go on holidays are the upper middle class.

Yes, they take good care of themselves.

It is truly scandalous

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Thai Government Adds 3 Extra Holidays for 2025 and 2026

 

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The Thai government has decided to add three special public holidays for 2025 and 2026, bringing the total number of official holidays to 21 for next year. These extra days are intended to make existing holiday periods longer.

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai shared this news after a Cabinet meeting today at Government House. The first new holiday will be on Monday, June 2, 2025. This will extend the break from May 31 to June 3, connecting it to the Queen’s Birthday festivities.

 

Another new holiday will be on Monday, August 11, 2025, providing a four-day break from August 9 to August 12 in honor of National Mother’s Day. The last added holiday is on Friday, January 2, 2026. This will create a five-day holiday from December 31, 2025, to January 4, 2026, to celebrate the New Year.

 

“These additional holidays are meant to give people more time to relax and spend with family, while also boosting domestic travel,” Phumtham stated.

 

 

By increasing the number of holidays, the government aims to stimulate the economy by encouraging more local travel during long weekends. This is expected to benefit local businesses and the tourism sector, positively impacting the economy.

 

Public holidays play an important role in promoting domestic tourism in Thailand. With these new holidays, many people are expected to travel more within the country, visiting various places and engaging in cultural and leisure activities.

 

A Ministry of Tourism official commented, “The extra holidays are expected to provide significant economic benefits, as more travel and tourism will increase local business revenues and create jobs.”

 

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Trying to pivot to a consumer-based society I see...

If that's the case, good old Thailand is gone for good.

Time to move to Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam for the cheap life.

This is life. Constantly evolving and transforming.

So be it. I'm grateful for the good times in the early 2010's.

Apparently it was even better in the 90's and 2000's (?)

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Lets have more holidays.... The people on daily wages will be happy, with less money....Only the wealthy will have n advantage and people on a monthly payment... And with rising prices, people will surely spend more and go on holiday as the wages are frozen... Thailand the hub of non thinking.

 

Get rid of daily wages and make everybody on monthly payments at least 15k a month and the number of holidays will be halved... much better for the economy

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11 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

The government is on a different planet.

Rural (poor) farmers cannot take extra holidays.

Businesses are struggling and now people are going to work less or incur extra costs.

Even if folk are having the extra days off, the only people that can afford to go on holidays are the upper middle class.

 What made you think that the Thai government is here for any other than the upper middle class?

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More days that the kids are not educated.

With another 6 or 7 weeks till the end of the year , 

The school across from us for one reason or another has had 50 days off so far this year , not including Sat. or Sun.

 

 

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15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“These additional holidays are meant to give people more time to relax and spend with family, while also boosting domestic travel,” Phumtham stated.

I wonder how you can relax and spend all this extra time with the family while doing all this boosted travelling at the same time.

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