Chiang Mai the city of culture
Chiang Mai has been nominated as Thailand's representatives of cities under a UNESCO scheme to promote local and creative cultures, a senior Culture Ministry official said yesterday.
Speaking at a ceremony yesterday in which the Chiang Mai provincial authorities signed a deal with the ministry to promote this northern province, Prissana Phongthadsirikul said Chiang Mai was the first province chosen because it was full of history, cultural diversity in addition to social foundation and community unity.
Under the scheme titled "Chiang Mai Culture Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art", the province will be nominated to join in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which now recognises 27 cities across the globe under seven categories, which include literature, culinary, music and design, for instance.
Pattaya and Phuket are set to be nominated in future step of this scheme, which she said Chiang Mai residents fully agreed and are planning to call for the government to set it as a national agenda.
