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  • Siam Paragon celebrating the school break with “Kids Carnival: Little Nemo in Slumberland”

    Siam Paragon celebrating the school break with “Kids Carnival: Little Nemo in Slumberland”

    Siam Paragon celebrating the school break organizes “Kids Carnival: Little Nemo in Slumberland”, the spectacular Balloon Festival imported directly from France to be held in the South East Asia for the first time during 17-21 October at Parc Paragon, Siam Paragon

    Siam Paragon together with Siam Commercial Credit Card and Origin Property organize “Kids Carnival: Little Nemo in Slumberland”, fantastic balloon carnival imported directly from France. Opening the world of imagination with over 20 inflatable characters, the carnival will debut for the first time in South East Asia from 17-21 October at Parc Paragon, Siam Paragon.

    On the opening day (17 October 2018), Mayuree Chaipromprasith, Executive of Siam Paragon, Pochana Ittisukanant from SCB, Aphisit Soonthronchukiet from Origin Property, and many celebrities such as MR Chantaraladda Yugala Ubondejpracharak, Pol.Lt.Col.Nopparat-Pornpat Boontanom, Wantita Lewchalermwong, Visarat Chunhavat, Sopitnapa Chumpanee, Parinya Roonpraphan, and their children also joined the event.

    Mayuree Chaipromprasith, Senior Executive Vice President – Marketing at Siam Paragon, said “As one of the world’s shopping destinations, Siam Paragon always keep customer satisfaction as top priority and always provide new experience to our customer. In the upcoming school break, Siam Paragon joins hands with Plasticiens Volants from France come up with a unique and fascinating balloon show entitled “Little Nemo in Slumberland”. Performed by world-renowned French street theater, Plasticiens Volants, the show presents a spectacular giant inflated puppets fly over Parc Paragon combining with stunning light, music, and special technique. The five-day event will bring the New York Herald Tribune’s legendary cartoon to life. We guarantee to bring an exclusive experience to our local and international customers, while will definitely create a wonderful moment for the family”

    Little Nemo in Slumberland is about a character named Nemo, who has a fantastic dream but awoke in bed in the final part. His adventure will be told through over 20 colorful floating inflatables where Parc Paragon will turn to be a fantasy dreamland in Slumberland and surrounded by imaginary light, sound and music. Audiences will be thrilled with Nemo’s adventurous dream from a flying magical bed, which its legs can enlarge to nine meters height. While also enjoy with a journey through a dreamlike floating castle, fanciful wild lives and gigantic raspberry fields. Much more characters will also entertain audiences during the carnival.

    Created by American cartoonist  Winsor McCay, Nemo is a fictional character originally the comic strip published in New York Herald Tribune from 1905-1914. The fantasy adventure story plus a wonderful performance of Plasticiens Volants has brought joyful and incredible experience to children and every people around the global

    View the gallery of the event below (8 images) :

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  • For Thailand, a ‘Go Local’ move to spread tourism benefits

    For Thailand, a ‘Go Local’ move to spread tourism benefits

    The Thai government has approved a series of tax deduction measures to promote seminars, leisure travel and MICE events in 55 second-tier tourist provinces nationwide all through 2018.

    These will support the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)’s latest Go Local campaign, a landmark project to promote the kingdom’s secondary destinations, spread tourists between urban and rural areas, and even out traffic between peak and non-peak periods.

    Go Local targets to improve the ratio of visitors – both domestic and foreign – to main cities vs secondary cities from 64:36 to 60:40. The aim is also to bring 10 million tourist arrivals into secondary cities and communities, generating an estimated 10 billion baht (US$312 million) in tourism revenue in 2018.

    As part of the campaign, TAT will cooperate with domestic tour operators and travel agents to offer incentives such as discounted meals when buying local tour packages covering secondary destinations. Travellers will also be exempt from personal income tax for the amount paid out to tour operators, hotel operators or homestay operators for domestic tours to the 55 provinces, but not in excess of 15,000 baht.

    Moreover, TAT will target Stock Exchange of Thailand-listed companies with a corporate tax exemption on income equal to 100 per cent of expenses for seminars and accommodation rooms, transport and other expenses incurred for conducting staff training seminars in the 55 provinces.

    TAT will also introduce the TAT Plus discount card, which can be used in participating retail and dining merchants in secondary destinations as well as domestic airlines.

    Other efforts include cooperating the Thai Restaurants Association, chefs, credit card companies and provincial authorities to promote the consumption of local food and purchase of local raw materials; as well as partnering attractions such as museums and theme parks to organise activities that celebrate the local culture.

    Yuthasak Supasorn, TAT governor, said: “When local communities grow, the country grows. With travel and tourism now widely recognised as a major contributor to grassroots economies, job creation and income distribution, we are now taking specific measures to ensure that the benefits are better distributed across the breadth and depth of the entire kingdom.”

    A Go Local Directory will be launched to provide specific information on dining, travelling and accommodation for getting tax deductions.

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