Travel lovers can look forward to 4,500 daily bus trips during Thailand’s Songkran holidays.
The Transport Company has announced that it will be operating 4,500 daily trips on state-owned and private buses and vans during the Songkran holidays. The company will carry people from Bangkok back to other provinces.
The Songkran festival, which takes place from April 10 to 15, is the Thai New Year and is one of the busiest times for travel in the country. This year, the Transport Company is expecting a 10% increase in passengers during the April 10-12 period, NNT reported.
After the five-day holiday period, the company expects around 53,000 people to return to Bangkok each day from April 16 to 18. To accommodate this, the Transport Company and its private concessionaires will provide 3,300 trips to Bangkok.
The managing director of the Transport Company, Sanyalak…
