More public holidays during Coronation, Asalha Puja and Buddhist Lent days

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More public holidays during Coronation, Asalha Puja and Buddhist Lent days



BANGKOK: -- The cabinet has decided to add more days off during the Coronation Day, Asalha Puja and Buddhist Lent days next year in order to boost tourism.

Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanawarangkoon said that the cabinet had declared four public holidays from May 5-8 to mark the Coronation Day on May 5 and five consecutive public holidays from July 16-20 to mark the Asalha Puja and Buddhist Lent days.

She said that 12 more cities would be added to the “must visit” tourist destinations next year to attract foreign and local tourists.

She expected revenues from tourism would grow to about 2.3 trillion baht next year and 2.5 trillion baht in 2017.

Regarding the smoke haze problem in southern provinces, the minister maintained that the problem would not affect the vegetarian festival in Phuket scheduled during October 13-21. She claimed that all hotels in Phuket were fully booked during the festival.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/more-public-holidays-during-coronation-asalha-puja-and-buddhist-lent-days


-- Thai PBS 2015-10-06

[geovalin]

Today, we posted

Cambodia holiday policy hampers competitiveness

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/860861-cambodia-holiday-policy-hampers-competiveness/

and the article is comparing the number of public holidays in the countries around.

Have a look, it's stunning!

2009 Chart of Public Holidays Comparison in the region:

Country Days

Cambodia 25

Vietnam 10

Indonesia 15

Malaysia 15

India 16

Bangladesh 15

China 10

Thailand 36

I hope Asia Sentinel figures are correct. Are they? Anyway, Thailand is # 1 by far! And, as it's not enough, let's add some.

[Wilsonandson]

Great News! The more holiday's the better unless your self employed.

[BobTH]

Great News! The more holiday's the better unless your self employed.

Or retired

[simon43]

She claimed that all hotels in Phuket were fully booked during the festival.

LoL - better tell that to all the hotels and guesthouses going bust in Phuket due to a lack of customers

[JAG]

Great News! The more holiday's the better unless your self employed.

Or retired

Or a tourist - particularly if the no booze enthusiasts get their teeth into it!

[smutcakes]

The only people who seem to benefit from the full amount of public holidays are the civil servants who dont have to worry about budgets/targets (unless spending their budgets), efficienies, customer service etc

Most private companies i know cap the public holidays at about 13-15 per year, and those viewed as the most important are selected.

[Bellacissa]

Well, that's interesting. Kayak is showing 2422 hotels with available rooms in Phuket from 13 October through 21 October. Guess it's not quite "fully booked" huh?

[ratcatcher]

There's going to come a time when all Thais are on holiday and the only ones working are Burmese, Cambodians and Laos

[MESmith]

Great News! The more holiday's the better unless your self employed.

Or retired

Or a tourist - particularly if the no booze enthusiasts get their teeth into it!

Or having paid school fees up front

[trainman34014]

There's going to come a time when all Thais are on holiday and the only ones working are Burmese, Cambodians and Laos

In certain sectors this appears to be the case already !

[This Thing of Darkness]

More days off school for the kids so TAT can manufacture some BS. Annoys me no end the amount of time kids have off school

[CanInBKK]

Today, we posted

Cambodia holiday policy hampers competitiveness

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/860861-cambodia-holiday-policy-hampers-competiveness/

and the article is comparing the number of public holidays in the countries around.

Have a look, it's stunning!

2009 Chart of Public Holidays Comparison in the region:

Country Days

Cambodia 25

Vietnam 10

Indonesia 15

Malaysia 15

India 16

Bangladesh 15

China 10

Thailand 36

I hope Asia Sentinel figures are correct. Are they? Anyway, Thailand is # 1 by far! And, as it's not enough, let's add some.

Somehow I think Thailand's figure is a gross overestimate. 36 days would work out to avg 3 per month. Given that there are months with no holidays at all and many with only one day, there must be multiple months with 4 holidays.....not even Songkran is that long.

[ChrisY1]

Only work on Wednesdays.....once a month!

[Kasset Tak]

If I counted correctly then there are 19 public holidays next year.

Remember that many (maybe most) working Thais only have the public holidays off from work (yea, many works 6-7 days a week) and do not have 30 days holiday like in Germany or 25 days holiday like in Sweden to take off from work in a year!

[whatproblem]

More days that the tourist information centre here will be closed

[emilymat]

So, the logic of this is that if you have 365 days holiday a year tourism will 'explode' to unimaginable levels.

[2008bangkok]

Today, we posted

Cambodia holiday policy hampers competitiveness

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/860861-cambodia-holiday-policy-hampers-competiveness/

and the article is comparing the number of public holidays in the countries around.

Have a look, it's stunning!

2009 Chart of Public Holidays Comparison in the region:

Country Days

Cambodia 25

Vietnam 10

Indonesia 15

Malaysia 15

India 16

Bangladesh 15

China 10

Thailand 36

I hope Asia Sentinel figures are correct. Are they? Anyway, Thailand is # 1 by far! And, as it's not enough, let's add some.

19 public holidays in Thailand 2015, but when you consider that normally thai law only gives either 5 or 10 paid vacation days compared to somewhere like the UK which is 28( without public holidays) its about right.

[jesimps]

More days for the hoards to descend on Pattaya and cause Bangkok type traffic jams. Pats is already bursting at the seams.

[ginjag]

Looking at this soon ,on average there will be 1 day a week.

70% of Thais never see a public holiday as most business shops stay open so the workers have to work------government officials will be screaming with joy.

and school kids elated less learning for them. keep the kids ignorant.......feel sorry for their lack of general knowledge. at 11 years old in the UK, we knew more than the 18 year old Thai school leavers.

[williamw921]

Only work on Wednesdays.....once a month!

what every month ?.

[gandalf12]

How does adding more public holidays attract visitors? It really only affects locals.

[trogers]

Great News! The more holiday's the better unless your self employed.

Or retired

I am retired in Bangkok and welcome long holidays when the streets of Bangkok would also get a holiday...lol