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Home » News from Thailand » Thailand struggles with Songkran celebrations due to health concerns
The tourism industry welcomes the government's proposed plan to allow the annual Songkran festival. This could help stimulate the economy, but there are concerns about the health risks.
Tomorrow the CCSA will meet to discuss what is and what is not allowed during the New Year's holiday from April 10 to 15, such as throwing water, music performances and foam parties. In the meantime, entrepreneurs in cities such as Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen, Pattaya and Phuket are already making a number of preparations.
An entrepreneur of a restaurant on Khao San Road is happy with the Songkran festivities but opposes the throwing of water and the use of talcum powder because partygoers then have to take off their masks and there is a risk of contamination. He wants to have a Songkran celebrated in a traditional way. So no water fights but traditional rituals such as watering Buddha statues and paying homage to parents and grandparents.
Source: Bangkok Post
Given the aftermath of the New Year's celebration, I think allowing songkran festivities is madness. Very irresponsible.
1 more Songkran be careful. Preventing a third lockdown. Hopefully, the vaccination will provide more protection in the coming months and thus more freedoms.
If a government postpones the vaccination with Astra Zenica, to make sure it is safe for the population, then at least they should also include the Songkran festival, where alcohol is consumed profusely and everyone has the opportunity to transport the virus across the country, urgently need to think about.
First spray vaccination, and spray water again next year.555
The situation is no different from a year ago, so why think differently? Due to a point on the horizon, Songkran will not be canceled like last year, but the result will be the same.
I also understand that 3 extra days off will be added, but if I look at the calendar it would take about 10 days in total.
it starts on Friday, April 9 and will end on Sunday, April 18.
That's going to be something in traffic.
Many Thais currently have many days off, because they no longer have work,
The day before yesterday in the news here in Thailand another 1300 were added, as a BH factory moved its activities to Vietnam.
So days off are already in abundance for many.
Jan Beute
Songkran festivities would boost the economy? How am I supposed to see that?
1. no large crowds of foreign tourists are coming to Thailand for the time being, not even for Songkran;
2. The Thais will return to their native village for Songkran as in other years if they are not already there because of their unemployment. That has very little to do with festivities but with social behavior. Throwing water also has very little to do with it.
So stimulating the economy is almost entirely 'moving money' from urban Thais (who don't spend it at home because they're not at home) to the countryside. And some extra money goes to the gas pump, the airline, local restaurants and the beer and whiskey brewery. And that is at most a day or 10, so temporary. But really encouraging: no.