{"id":21239,"date":"2013-04-15T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/tourist-police-songkran-festival-activation-2013-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-15T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T12:40:00","slug":"tourist-police-songkran-festival-activation-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/04\/tourist-police-songkran-festival-activation-2013-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Police Songkran Festival Activation 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

 The Tourist Police Division\u2019s 35 branches around Thailand have joined forces with Thailand\u2019s Immigration Bureau to ensure the safety of tourists during this year\u2019s Songkran celebrations.<\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

The Tourist Police have mobilized all regional branches to serve tourists during the busy holiday and to ensure traveller confidence in Thailand.<\/div>\n
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For more than 20 years the Tourist Police Division has been serving and taking care of the safety of tourists who travel to Thailand, including domestic travellers. This objective remains as strong today.<\/div>\n
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Pol.Maj.Gen.Roy Inkapairoj, Commander of Thai Tourist Police Division, said this year Songkran has attracted scores of international visitors as well as Thai to provinces throughout the country.<\/div>\n
\u201cI have therefore ordered all branches to be on call this year to be ready to serve in every way possible, 24 hours a day\u201d he says.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis includes translators who speak English, Chinese, Japanese, French and other languages at key branches. It\u2019s our policy to protect and help prevent accidents with foreign and Thai tourists. The Immigration Bureau will assist in this endeavour.\u201d<\/div>\n
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He says that this message will add to foreign tourist\u2019s confidence in travelling within Thailand. The <\/div>\n
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Department of Tourism under Ministry of Tourism and Sports and other organisations are also assisting his team with the “TOURIST POLICE SONGKRAN FESTIVAL ACTIVATION 2013” on Khao San Road.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis special activity is to reach out to tourists directly and assist them with beneficial information about Songkran customs, how to stay safe and alert regarding crime and provide some guidelines on travel or the safe use of vehicles during the water festival\u201d, he added. \u201cThis will include information on how to contact Tourist Police utilising the new Tourist Buddy Application and the Tourist Police hotline 1155.\u201d<\/div>\n
To get into spirit of the Water Festival event, Pol.Maj.Gen.Roy Inkapairoj, will play Songkran with tourists in the popular Khao San Road on Friday, 12th April 2013 at 20:00pm. – 21:30pm.<\/div>\n
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Besides representing a great deal of cool fun during the hot season, the throwing of water is believed to bring good luck and prosperity for the Thai New Year. It is a time for cleansing, renewal and making merit. It\u2019s also a time to visit family and celebrate a new beginning.<\/div>\n
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 The Tourist Police Division\u2019s 35 branches around Thailand have joined forces with Thailand\u2019s Immigration Bureau to ensure the safety of tourists during this year\u2019s Songkran celebrations. The Tourist Police have mobilized all regional branches to serve tourists during the busy holiday and to ensure traveller confidence in Thailand. For more than 20 years the Tourist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anantara","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21239","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=21239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}