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Index Creative Village enjoyed a 38-per-cent surge in revenue in the first three quarters to Bt2 billion from Bt1.98 billion in the same period last year, mainly driven by stage-exhibition design and productions for local museums.
Kriangkrai Kanjanapokin, co-chief executive officer of the event organiser, said it had four museum projects, worth Bt500 million. These are a medical museum at Siriraj Hospital, Gems Gallery Phuket, Sunny Bangchak Project at Bang Pa-in in Ayutthaya, and the Museum of National Treasure inside the Grand Palace, Bangkok.
The company expects to realise its revenue target of Bt3 billion by end of the year.

Priciest property revealed
The Agency for Real Estate Affairs yesterday revealed its latest survey of property prices in Bangkok.
It found that property near Siam Paragon, Siam Square, and Chidlom and Ploenchit Skytrain stations had the highest prices at about Bt1.4 million per square wah or Bt560 million per rai (Bt3.5 billion per hectare) on average last year, an increase of 17 per cent over the Bt1.2 million per square wah estimated for 2010. Prices in these areas are expected to increase to about Bt1.5 million per square wah (Bt375,000 per square metre) this year.
Wireless Road, Silom, and the vicinity of the Skytrain station on Rajdamri Road showed estimated property prices of about Bt1.1 million per square wah, while Bt1 million per square wah was the price for property areas near the Times Square Building on Sukhumvit Road as well as along Sathorn Road.

Higher airport traffic forecast
Airports of Thailand is optimistic about the number of travellers using the Kingdom’s international airports from this month through March, thanks to the growing number of Chinese and Indian tourists.
Flying Officer Anirut Thanomkulbutra, AOT president, said initial information supplied by airlines showed that Suvarnabhumi would be the busiest of the international airports his agency oversees, averaging 142,000 passengers per day during the October-March period, a 19.32-per-cent increase from 119,000 currently. Of the total, 110,000 would be international passengers and 32,000 domestic travellers.
There will be an average of 802 flights per day at Suvarnabhumi during the period, up from 715 at present. Of these, 626 will be international flights, largely to and from China or India, and 176 domestic flights.
Phuket International Airport is the country’s second-busiest. Approximately, there will be 178 flights per day with an average of 31,000 passengers, up from 163 flights at present with 25,030 passengers.
Third is Chiang Mai International Airport. There will be 124 flights per day with an average of 15,000 passengers in the period through March, up from 97 flights per day with 11,840 passengers currently. – The Nation