On February 10, according to Thai media news, during the Spring Festival in 2024, Thailand's Chinatown will be full of tourists, and the atmosphere will be lively, and many Thai-Chinese and foreign tourists will gather here to celebrate the Spring Festival together, which is expected to bring a new high in 11 years.
It is reported that tourists who go to Chinatown to experience the New Year atmosphere, in addition to going to Longlian Temple to pray for blessings, many Thai and foreign tourists flock to taste street food. Among them, a group of Chinese tourists said that this was their first time in Thailand for the Spring Festival, and after going to Longlian Temple to pray for blessings, they also went to Chinatown to eat, and their favorite was stir-fried water spinach and tom yum fish soup. It is understood that during the Spring Festival, the sales of mango sticky rice increased significantly, becoming a popular delicacy in Chinatown.
In addition, on February 9, Phuket Province held a Chinese New Year event (February 8-16), which welcomed more than 70,000 Thai and foreign tourists to celebrate the Spring Festival. In this Spring Festival event, the Phuket government not only used dragons and lanterns to decorate the road for tourists to check in, but also filled the fountain with vases with flowers and butterflies, bringing a different and novel experience to tourists.
In this regard, Mr. Lakcha, head of the Phuket office of the National Tourism Administration of Thailand, said that among the foreign tourists who visit Phuket, the number of Chinese tourists ranks first, about 4,000-5,000 per day. In addition, during the Chinese New Year period from February 8 to 16, room bookings accounted for about 81% of the total number of rooms open for use at each hotel (111,000 rooms in total), and the revenue is expected to exceed 6.8 billion baht.