New year revelry returns to Thai streets as tourism rebounds

Revellers walked through a half-kilometer-long span in Bangkok’s’s visitor district of Khaosan Road, many of them drenched to the face, blindly firing water guns and dancing to music blaring from kerbside organizations.

Jared Baumeister, a attorney from New York, who flew into Bangkok this week to attend the holidays, said that the water prevent was” multiple-day, city-wide.”

He said, holding a multicolored water cannon and sipping ale,” I don’t know where else in the world you’d’d get this.”

Thailand’s’s economy, which has recovered from the pandemic more slowly than other Southeast Asian countries, will grow by as much as 4 % this year, the fastest rate in five years, thanks in large part to a strong recovery in the tourism industry.