News Forum - 4 million Thais to travel during 5-day ‘long weekend’ – TAT

[Thaiger]

The main factors affecting Thais travelling during this long holiday period between July 13 and July 17 continue to be the local high inflation and expensive petrol prices (also affecting airline prices). During the holidays, it’s predicted that there will be nearly 4 million Thais travelling around the country, spending an estimated 14 billion baht. With the current spike in costs, Thais are cutting back on their vacation costs and deciding to spend less on souvenirs, and travelling closer to home, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand governor, Yuthasak Supasorn. “Domestic tourism for the upcoming weekend is quite strong, mostly […]

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[JJJ]

What long weekend? Only the government gave itself 3 days off. The only work holiday was yesterday. So every time there’s a holiday on a Wednesday should we expect the government to call it week? 

[palooka]

9 minutes ago, JJJ said:

What long weekend? Only the government gave itself 3 days off. The only work holiday was yesterday. So every time there’s a holiday on a Wednesday should we expect the government to call it week? 

Seems that way. I've never known a country to have so many holidays for Govt workers.