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Hua Hin and Cha-am will be promoted as new international destinations for wellness tourism under the Thailand Wellness Sandbox programme.

Koh Samui was ranked the second-best tourist destination in Asia and seventh-best in the world by the Travel+Leisure magazine recently.

Prime Minister Hun Sen met with Vietnamese foreign minister Bui Thanh Son for wide-ranging talks on issues of mutual concern, with both sides committing to facilitating an increase in their trade volume in order to reach more than $10 billion for 2022.

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Environment Office has organized the “Bangkok Flora Festival” from January until July of this year as a New Year gift for Bangkok residents and to promote domestic tourism.

Had the Test & Go scheme not been suspended, the tourism industry could have welcomed 100,000 to 200,000 foreign tourists in January alone, Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC) chairman Sanan Angubolkul said on Wednesday.

The Nation Building Institute (NBI) proposed on Monday that Phrae be turned into a “city in the forest” to draw Thai and foreign retirees.

HÀ NỘI — Although COVID-19 travel restrictions severely hit Việt Nam’s tourism sector last year, the capital city of Hà Nội has remained at the top of global travellers’ wish lists.

Krabi’s beautiful Maya Bay has been opened to tourists from January 1 for the first time since June 1, 2018, Ministry of Tourism and Sports posted on its facebook on Thursday.

HÀ NỘI — Seven countries and territories, including the United States, Japan, Singapore, Cambodia, South Korea and China’s Taiwan, have agreed to resume air routes to Việt Nam, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV).

The economies of remote islands in particular have been hit hard by the decline in tourism due to the spread of Covid-19.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced on Friday that eight destinations will continue being part of the “blue zone” or tourism-pilot area.

Phuket is ready to deal with the Omicron variant and serve as a frontline for the tourism industry, provincial governor Narong Woonciew declared earlier this week.