Friday, October 12, 2012

Amateur Hour at Thailand Tourism Authority

Earlier this year I noted an advertisement at the TAT website for the Sakon Nakhon Wax Castle Festival.  The notice had the wrong dates. They used last year's dates Oct 12-16.

The web page was corrected four days after my second e-mail to the webmaster. But by then the damage had been done. Tourists agents throughout the world had picked up on the wrong dates.

Again there's a few of disappointed tourists in town, two weeks too early.

It's not the first time I've noted wrong dates listed for the festival.  
I've met and heard of disappointed tourists in past years.

The Sakon Nakhon Wax Castle Festival is held each year in conjunction with the end of the Buddhist Lent and generally begins three days before the full moon.  Thus each year it's on different dates.

Wonder if T.A.T. will get this right someday.  Maybe even in my lifetime.

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