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The town of Luang Prabang, which is renowned for Unesco’s listing of its old quarter as a world heritage site, has seen 90 per cent of room reservations made by Thai visitors since Laos lifted all entry restrictions in May.

The Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (DASTA) is promoting Pattaya as a film production centre under the Unesco Creative Cities Network (UCCN) to generate revenue for the community.

Inspired by Thai rapper Danupha "Milli" Khanatheerakul's mouth-watering performance, the Department of Cultural Promotion says it will push for mango sticky rice to be listed as Unesco intangible cultural heritage.

A road map is being implemented to ensure Phetchaburi province will remain in the Unesco’s Creative Cities Network of Gastronomy, the Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (Public Organisation) said.

Thailands Andaman Sea Nature Reserves were recently included in the Unesco World Heritage Centre’s tentative list after their names were submitted on December 18 last year.

The Culture Ministry aims to ask Unesco to list Thai cannabis as an "intangible cultural heritage" as people from all regions use it like a herb while the Thai breed has become popular abroad, Dr Kwanchai Wisitthanon, deputy director-general of the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine, said on Thursday.

Songket, known as "Ratu Kain" in Malay weaving, once again has made history when it was listed under Unescos (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 16th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Nora – a form of traditional, folk performing art popular in southern Thailand – is expected to win Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage for Humanity honour on Thursday, the Department of Cultural Promotion announced on its Facebook page.

Nora, a form of traditional, folk performing art popular in the South of Thailand, is expected to win Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage for Humanity honour on December 16, the Department of Cultural Promotion said.

The Baan Khun Phithak Raya house in Pattani province won the 2021 Unesco Award of Merit for Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Conservation on December 1.

A Cabinet meeting on Tuesday has approved the move to propose six national parks and one mangrove forest along the Andaman Sea as world heritage sites to the World Heritage Centre of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), said deputy government spokeswoman Traisulee Traisoranakul on Tuesday.

Thailand’s Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (Dasta) has started working on a five-year roadmap to turn Phetchaburi province into a tourism destination after it was included in the Unesco Creative Cities Network this year.