{"id":20139,"date":"2014-03-25T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/tat-praises-the-eat-pray-shop-at-ratchaprasong-campaign-to-lure-back-tourists\/"},"modified":"2014-03-25T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T09:41:00","slug":"tat-praises-the-eat-pray-shop-at-ratchaprasong-campaign-to-lure-back-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/03\/tat-praises-the-eat-pray-shop-at-ratchaprasong-campaign-to-lure-back-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"TAT praises the Eat Pray Shop at Ratchaprasong campaign to lure back tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has praised the Ratchaprasong Square Trade Association (RSTA) for its recent launch of the \u201cEat, Pray, Shop @ Ratchaprasong\u201d campaign, saying it will help tell the world that Bangkok\u2019s most popular shopping and entertainment district is well and truly open for business, not only commercially but spiritually.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Mr. Thawatchai Arunyik, TAT Governor said, \u201cThe campaign sums up the unique character of Ratchaprasong as the place to eat a range of cultural delicacies, to worship the highly-revered Hindu Gods and to shop \u2019til you drop. In addition, this area also boasts a wide range of accommodation, and is well-connected to other parts of Bangkok via the Skytrain and road systems.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Launched by RSTA in cooperation with the area\u2019s five major department stores, five hotels and more than 3,000 retail shops, the Eat, Pray, Shop @ Ratchaprasong campaign offers promotional activities in three areas.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The&nbsp;<strong><em>Eat<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;campaign has been launched in cooperation with the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok, Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotel, Novotel Bangkok Siam Square, InterContinental Bangkok Hotel and Centara Grand at CentralWorld. These hotels are&nbsp;<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"unnamed (4)\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-464552\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/unnamed-416-300x180.jpg\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/unnamed-416-300x180.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px; cursor: default; float: right;\" width=\"300\" \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">offering discounts of 20-50% or come-3\/pay-2 promotions in their dining outlets. Also included in the offer are free cooling drinks and numerous exclusive gifts for diners.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The&nbsp;<strong><em>Pray<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;campaign showcases Ratchaprasong as the place for worshipping the most highly-revered of Hindu deities. There are seven major shrines in this area \u2013 the famous Erawan Shrine of&nbsp;<em>Thao Maha Brahma<\/em>&nbsp;at the corner of the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok Hotel, the Amarindradhiraja Shrine in front of Amarin Plaza, Narayana God or Vishnu Shrine in front of the InterContinental Bangkok Hotel, the Lakshmi shrine on the 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;floor of Gaysorn Plaza, the Trimurti and Ganesh Shrines in front of CentralWorld Shopping Complex and the Uma Devi shrine in front of Big C Supercenter Ratchadamri.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The<strong>&nbsp;<em>Shop<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;theme helps bring together some of Bangkok\u2019s best malls with the area\u2019s five major department stores including CentralWorld, Platinum Fashion Mall, Gaysorn Plaza, Amarin Plaza and Erawan Bangkok offering up to 70% discounts on high-fashion items, lifestyle products and accessories.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The \u2018Eat, Pray, Shop @ Ratchaprasong campaign\u2019 runs from today until&nbsp;31 March, 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Roads at Ratchaprasong intersection&nbsp;have been re-opened to normal traffic as of 3 March, 2014.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has praised the Ratchaprasong Square Trade Association (RSTA) for its recent launch of the \u201cEat, Pray, Shop @ Ratchaprasong\u201d campaign, saying it will help tell the world that Bangkok\u2019s most popular shopping and entertainment district is well and truly open for business, not only commercially but spiritually. Mr. Thawatchai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}