Tourism
Airports of Thailand rushes second phase of Suvarnabhumi
The Airports of Thailand (AoT) is accelerating the construction of Suvarnabhumi Airport’s second phase in order to accommodate the increased passenger count, which is expected to reach an annual figure of 60 million in 5 years’ time.

The Airports of Thailand (AoT) is accelerating the construction of Suvarnabhumi Airport’s second phase in order to accommodate the increased passenger count, which is expected to reach an annual figure of 60 million in 5 years’ time.
AoT President Anirut Thanomkulbutr has revealed that the first phase of the national airport has the capacity to hold 45 million passengers per year. However, the total passenger count in 2011 has soared to 48 million while it is expected to reach 51 million this year.
The second phase of Suvarnabhumi Airport, worth 62.5 billion baht, is scheduled to be completed by 2017. The expansion is expected to increase the airport’s passenger capacity to 60 million persons per year.
Meanwhile, the AoT has recently signed a contract with EPM Consortium who will be in charge of the management of the Suvarnabhumi Airport’s second phase during 2012-2018.
Tourism
Interprovincial travel in Thailand amid COVID-19 controls
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) is suspending 57 additional train services from 26 January, 2021, as part of the nationwide effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These include ordinary trains, local trains, and suburban trains in the North (13 routes), Northeast (18 routes), South (12 routes), and East (14 routes).

This update includes the latest announcement from the State Railway of Thailand regarding the suspension of 57 additional train services from 26 January, 2021.
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TAT launches virtual tours to 4 top destinations in Thailand
Once inside an attraction, visitors can move around using the cursor, while some of the attractions have information about its historical background or details of items on display in both English and Thai.

Bangkok, 25 January, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a virtual reality tour of top attractions in four of Thailand’s leading tourism destinations comprising Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, and Surat Thani.
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Wish you were here: how the pandemic harmed tourism-dependent economies
Before COVID-19, travel and tourism had become one of the most important sectors in the world economy, accounting for 10 percent of global GDP and more than 320 million jobs worldwide.

In 1950, at the dawn of the jet age, just 25 million people took foreign trips. By 2019, that number had reached 1.5 billion, and the travel and tourism sector had grown to almost too-big-to-fail proportions for many economies.
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