{"id":1517,"date":"2020-09-14T07:27:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26284"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:22:57","slug":"tat-highlights-travel-promotions-for-expats-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/tat-highlights-travel-promotions-for-expats-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"TAT Highlights Travel Promotions for Expats in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bangkok, Thailand, September 11, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is organising the \u2018Expat Travel Deal 2020\u2019 to offer domestic tourism promotions for expatriate residents to encourage them to travel more domestically, and enjoy Thailand\u2019s many attractions.<\/p>\n

The event will take place from 11 to 13 September, 2020, from 10.00 to 22.00 Hrs. at the Quartier Gallery, EmQuartier shopping mall in Bangkok. The event is free for interested persons.<\/p>\n

Mr. Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, TAT Deputy Governor for International Marketing (Asia and South Pacific) said, \u201cThailand has a large expatriate population many of whom have strong links with the kingdom and who express great love for Thailand and its people. TAT and our strategic partners would like to encourage expats to travel further afield and to discover some of the Amazing Thailand experiences that can be enjoyed in every corner of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of June, 2020, there are a total of 2,459,785 foreigners with permission to work in Thailand, according to the Department of Employment, Ministry of Labour. The total includes 155,193 skilled employees (investors, experts, skilled craftsman, and BOI) and 25,110 foreign students.<\/p>\n

The Expat Travel Deal 2020 will showcase travel products and services from all five regions (North, Central, South, East and Northeast), demonstrations of local arts and crafts making skills, such as, ceramic bead bracelets and Thai reed mats, as well as tourism-related talk sessions. Some of the topics include \u2018Thailand still good\u2019 by Mr. Roger Wu, Hong Kong travel blogger, \u2018The Thailand we never knew we never knew\u2019 by Mr. Daniel Fraser, from\u00a0 documentary travel show \u201cLong Ruk Yim\u201d and Smiling Albino Travel Agent and \u2018The New Era of Elephant Care Tourism\u2019 by Mr. Theerapat Trungprakan from Thai Elephant Alliance Association.<\/p>\n

Travel agencies from each region will be on hand with customised travel packages at discounted rates. Expat attendees will be asked to present their passports to be eligible for special deals at the event.<\/p>\n

TAT will also be rolling out a number of other promotional activities, including joint promotions with Alipay, Thailand-based travel companies, and the airlines.<\/p>\n

Moreover, these will be promoted alongside publicity events, including familiarisation trips for members of the foreign media and representatives of foreign travel companies in Thailand. Other forms of publicity include content marketing with online and offline publications for expats in Thailand, focussing on businesses that are certified with the Amazing Thailand Safety and Health Administration (SHA) standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bangkok, Thailand, September 11, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is organising the \u2018Expat Travel Deal 2020\u2019 to offer domestic tourism promotions for expatriate residents to encourage them to travel more domestically, and enjoy Thailand\u2019s many attractions. The event will take place from 11 to 13 September, 2020, from 10.00 to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}