Street art event held to lure tourists back to Bangkok's Ratchaprasong

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Street art event held to lure tourists back to Ratchaprasong
By English News



BANGKOK, April 22 -- Business operators in Bangkok's world-class Ratchaprasong shopping district have launched a “Living Arts Festival 2014” to draw both local and foreign tourists to the formerly protest-plagued zone.

"Living Arts Festival 2014@Ratchaprasong" runs from May 2 through June 8, in hopes of restoring confidence among tourists.

The event is a cooperation between the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the private sector, and is being promoted as Ratchaprasong’s trademark event.

TAT executive Noppadol Phakphod said today the event features outdoor 3D and 4D street-art creations by world-class street artists. The event is expected to draw as many ten million visitors, with Bt6.5 billion forecast in circulation during the period.

Ratchaprasong Square Trade Association (RSTA) marketing communications director Korakot Srivikorn said that last year’s event received positive feedback from visitors.

She said the event is expected to welcome about 250,000-270,000 visitors a day after the government lifted the emergency decree but the sales have not risen due to slow economic recovery and high household debt.

Ms Korakot said that Ratchaprasong has so far been unable to lure tourists back, and hotel occupancy rates fell to only 70 per cent from 80 per cent in the same period last year. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-04-22

[DoctorG]

"Lure" is such an ugly word, donchathink?

"Entice" sounds so much nicer.

[JoeThePoster]

10 million visitors. Wow!

The scam artists at Erawan shrine will be happy to show their talent.

[Morakot]

"Lure" is such an ugly word, donchathink?

"Entice" sounds so much nicer.

The allure of commenting on ill deployed language...

[Globeman]

And it would be an excellent prank, to show that the TAT has a sense of humour, if they displayed exploding paintings.

Film the results, and use it in TAT television commercials: "Amusing Thailand: Big Laughs at Your Expense"

[tonytigerbkk]

And how are they going to advertise this event to tourists?

[Eliot Rosewater]

I would love to see Banksy do something cool in Bkk, not sure the Thais could handle it though....

[ricklev]

When I read articles like that all I think of is giant speakers playing loud bad music that make me want to get as far away as I can as fast as I can.

[Mencken]

Much of Asia gets the touring Warhol exhibit, the big mango gets street art.

Sigh...

[Bkungbank]

Lucky for tourist about the medical charges 500 Baht per person when enter to Thailand nearly forget to impose due to politic uncertainties and now trying to promote street art but first some taxi and tuk-tuk scam should be heal first before the image on tourism getting worst.

[Genericnic]

Much of Asia gets the touring Warhol exhibit, the big mango gets street art.

Sigh...

Having seen a good portion of the Warhol exhibit, I think BKK comes out ahead on this one. A good portion of his work didn't even rise to the level of good street art that you see in some places today.

David

[dave2]

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good street art that you see in some places today.

i dont know or care if street art or graffiti is thes same but we have some good stuff up here in chiang mai

i love the pic of this lovely woman in a hat just off soi 6 but this pig or dog face or whatever its supposed to be on wing 41 road unnerves me coz you can almost feel those evil looking eyes seeing you and watching you ... its scary man

i might fly down to see this show but is the start of the rainy season the best time for this ?

water , paint , chalk ... yukky mess

enjoy .. dave2

[celso]

3d street art is amazing, when it is actually painted, and by an artist who has figured out all the dimensions himself.

But the stuff along Ratchaprasong isn't painted... and it isn't even stencilled, its just a giant sticker printed off a computer. Literally just involves taking an image into photoshop, progressively stretching it out, printing and sticking it on the floor. Is that street art?

[dave2]

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3d street art is amazing, when it is actually painted, and by an artist who has figured out all the dimensions himself.

we had a few of those chalk on the ground pics done by the three kings monument in april 12 but were nowhere near as good as ive seen in pics on the internet

re

But the stuff along Ratchaprasong isn't painted... and it isn't even stencilled, its just a giant sticker printed off a computer. Literally just involves taking an image into photoshop, progressively stretching it out, printing and sticking it on the floor. Is that street art?

im assuming this Ratchaprasong is in bangkok and has anyone got any pics or examples of these sticker things coz ive never seen one of those !

just interested ... dave2

[Rumblecat]

They had a street art festival their last year. I think the stuff is painted- judging by pictures on internet of last year (just google image - "street art" ratchaprasong 2013) it seems to be anyway... unless it's a sticker which is then painted over, which is possible I guess...

[dave2]

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just google image - "street art" ratchaprasong 2013) it seems to be anyway... unless it's a sticker which is then painted over, which is possible I guess

ok .. thanks for the info !

ahhh a plain sticker that you paint like painting with numbers .... im with it now

i really should get my bum down there for this show coz ive not been out of chiang mai since april 11

dave2

[MMarlow]

"Lure" is such an ugly word, donchathink?

"Entice" sounds so much nicer.

Perfectly appropriate word to be used, and it's a real word. "Donchathink"?