{"id":307,"date":"2019-11-12T22:17:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=24097"},"modified":"2019-11-22T01:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T01:25:45","slug":"bangkok-and-sukhothai-designated-new-creative-cities-by-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/bangkok-and-sukhothai-designated-new-creative-cities-by-unesco\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok and Sukhothai Designated New Creative Cities by UNESCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/destinations\/bangkok-and-sukhothai-designated-new-creative-cities-by-unesco\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TAT\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TAT-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bangkok and Sukhothai Designated New Creative Cities by UNESCO\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Paris (France) \u2013 November 13, 2019 (<a class=\"autohyperlink\" href=\"http:\/\/travelindex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">travelindex.com<\/a>) \u2013 The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is delighted that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has designated Bangkok and Sukhothai among 66 new \u2018Creative Cities, thus bringing the total number of UNESCO Creative Cities in Thailand to four.<\/p>\n<p>UNESCO announced on 30 October that Bangkok was designated as a \u2018Creative City of Design\u2019 and Sukhothai as a \u2018Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art\u2019. The UNESCO Creative Cities Network now totals 246 cities, including Phuket which was named a \u2018Creative City of Gastronomy\u2019 in 2015 while Chiang Mai was named a \u2018Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art\u2019 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>TAT Governor Mr. Yuthasak Supasorn said, \u201cWe are very pleased to receive this second round of Creative City designation from UNESCO with Sukhothai and Bangkok joining Chiang Mai and Phuket. We hope that this is only the beginning as TAT continues to highlight emerging destinations around Thailand, as we expand our sustainable tourism development agenda to all four corners of the Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris (France) \u2013 November 13, 2019 (<a href=\"http:\/\/travelindex.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">travelindex.com<\/a>) \u2013 The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is delighted that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has designated Bangkok and Sukhothai among 66 new \u2018Creative Cities, thus bringing the total number of UNESCO Creative Cities in Thailand to four. UNESCO announced on 30 October that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","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\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}