Suvarnabhumi Airport launches "Amazing Smile of AEC campaign"

BANGKOK, 29 July 2014 (NNT) – Suvarnabhumi Airport is inviting passengers to take photos with an interactive photo shooting screen under the theme of ASEAN, while Chinese tourists are exempted from a visa application fee during the next 90 days.

Raweewan Natarakavesana, the Director of Suvarnabhumi Airport, has launched an “Amazing Smile of AEC” campaign by setting up an interactive photo display of 10 ASEAN countries’ national symbols. The campaign is aimed to impress all passengers who are going to be visiting Thailand until November 21st 2014.

Ms. Raweewan added that even though Thailand is at its low season, the number of passengers entering the airport have increased to about 100,000 people per day, most of them being Chinese tourists.

Thailand has expressed its thanks to the Chinese for greatly supporting the Thai tourism industry by exempting visa fees for Chinese tourists during the three months August to October 2014.


-- NNT 2014-07-29

more superficial garbage...can any one tell me who has the smile this week?

Another variation on the arrivals theme and this time it's up again despite being low season. Only last week the Director at Swampy said overall arrivals for the year would be down yet we get up again in low season so what will be said come high season ?

Accuracy isn't this country's strong suit.

"Thailand has expressed its thanks to the Chinese for greatly supporting the Thai tourism industry..."

Not to mention supporting increased emergency room revenue generated by the numerous road crashes they have caused.

Never trust the mental health of someone who forces themselves to smile through every emotion and event.

more superficial garbage...can any one tell me who has the smile this week?

No, but I can tell you of a few million with a cheesy grin!

Could somebody please check my math. They say 100,000 passengers per day. Lets assume there are 24 hrs/day (even in Thai time) which is equivalent to 4,167 people per hour. Now lets assume there are 60 minutes in an hour (even in Thai time) then that comes out to 69 passengers per minute. hmmmmmm my gut check tells me someone is telling "non-truths"

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Could somebody please check my math. They say 100,000 passengers per day. Lets assume there are 24 hrs/day (even in Thai time) which is equivalent to 4,167 people per hour. Now lets assume there are 60 minutes in an hour (even in Thai time) then that comes out to 69 passengers per minute. hmmmmmm my gut check tells me someone is telling "non-truths"

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Well : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic gives a figure of 16,247,477 passengers from Jan 1ST to end April. That makes 137,690 passengers per day, or 95 passengers per minute! ....

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The current Thai smile ought to be renamed to Thai grin. The crocodile "here's lunch" type.

The link in post #7 will not present. Google world's largest airports by passenger count. Suva is 18th. However,on second thoughts... I believe the figure given included both ingoing and outgoing - I'm not sure. So divide the figure in 2, for arguments sake - still offers 48 passengers per minute.

More like the smile of a crocodile or the hyena after they bitten in to you..

what a limited imagination those people has, stuck with this worn out

slogan "amazing" this and amazing that, do we really need to get the junta

on you to change that silly slogan?

Another variation on the arrivals theme and this time it's up again despite being low season. Only last week the Director at Swampy said overall arrivals for the year would be down yet we get up again in low season so what will be said come high season ?

Accuracy isn't this country's strong suit.

and neither is the truth.

This is news?

more superficial garbage...can any one tell me who has the smile this week?

My mate who was on drugs.

They haven't joined the AEC yet so whats this all about, yea, is she on happy pills , and is dreaming, has anyone heard that the junta is approving the merger with the AEC.

Im maybe wrong but this is clutching at straws to redeem in someway this Countrys reputation to the world .

"Thailand has expressed its thanks to the Chinese for greatly supporting the Thai tourism industry by

exempting visa fees for Chinese tourists during the three months August to October 2014."

Hmm.. Isn`t this breaking the international law about discrimination?

(That Thailand have signed).

Article 5 (Positive action)

With a view to ensuring full equality in practice, the principle of equal treatment shall not prevent

any Member State from maintaining or adopting specific measures to prevent or compensate for

advantages linked to racial or ethnic origin.

Does this mean we could get free beer?

Pack the bags Dorothy, the Thais have an amazing smile photo promotion at their airport.

Another plastic announcement by th AoT, totally crap as usual!

Who's the photographer? Sri Lanka Tony?

What has happened to the smiling soldiers and free flowers,thats what i want

An opportunity for photo bombed selfies with GP in the background?

Bread & Games used to keep populations calm centuries ago. Now it is the (censored) media making us all euphoric. Go and look at Suvarnabhumi; it has never been so quiet.

Who's the photographer? Sri Lanka Tony?

That was the duty-free amazing smile promotion at Ratchathewa police station.

"Raweewan Natarakavesana, the Director of Suvarnabhumi Airport, has launched an “Amazing Smile of AEC” campaign"

so she is obviously trying to impress foreigners with her excellence in natural English expressions again....

THey should perhaps devote more time to stamping out the duty free scams that focus on King Power and the police, they have no idea the bad publicity they get from these alone, let alone the taxi scammers, jet ski scammers etc etc. When they can clean up and clear out the scammers then they will move forward on the tourist trade, until then once bitten twice shy, why do so many tourists not want to come back?

............. why do so many tourists not want to come back?

Probably for the same reasons that a lot of tourists don't visit countries twice.............they wish to see other parts of the world.

hmm dealing with Thai immigration there, much more likely a scowl than smile!

Hurrah for ASEAN..... Hurrah Huzzah! That's enough to give you a boner isn't it?

Keep your Passport with you in the pool...on the toilet...in bed naked...24 hours a day or Pay.

Have a nice time. Smile!!!

Another amazing slogan.