Thailand welcomed the New Year with a spectacular 25,000 eco-friendly fireworks display running along 1.4 kilometres of Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River – which has become a key Bangkok tourist attraction and a global countdown destination.
The celebration played a key role in supporting hundreds of tourism businesses along the Chao Phraya River during these trying times, as well as the people whose livelihoods and families depend on those businesses
For Thais, who have recorded among the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the world during 2020, the annual display serves as Thailand’s 2021 national countdown event and is estimated to have been viewed by millions of people in Thailand alone, both on the ground and through streaming platforms as the clock chimed midnight on the evening of 31st December 2020.
Yuthasak Supasorn, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, whose…
