Chinese New Year celebrations and festivities will be staged along several roads in the heart of Bangkok’s famous ‘Chinatown’. Designated the ‘Thai-Chinese Friendship Avenue’, the route extends from Traimit Road, past Wat Traimit temple, Chalermphrakiat Arch, Yawaraj Road to Ratchawong intersection.

The Thailand International Kite Festival attracts an ever-growing number of devoted kite fans, participants and spectators, from all over Thailand as well as from countries around the region, and beyond. The colourful kite festival thus presents a golden opportunity for visitors to savour the international flavour of kite culture in a single trip.

Songkran Day has been celebrated as New Year's Day in the Thai solar calendar since ancient times. Across the country, it's a time for laughter and entertainment ... for religious ceremonies and merit-making ... for families and friends. And of course for splashing water — lots of it!

The ceremony, which heralds the start of the new rice-growing season, was undertaken to assure a successful planting season and an abundance of the nation's crops.

The unique geographical landscape of Chaiyaphum Province in the northeast of Thailand gives rise to a range of natural attractions of exceptional beauty.

The Phi Ta Khon festival is unique to the Dan Sai district in Loei Province and reflects the local Isan belief in ghosts and spirits.

Bhumibol Dam in Tak province will be hosting the Bhumibol Dam Invitation International Mountain Bike Championships for the fourth consecutive year on August 30 – 31, 2008. Noted for its scenic landscape, Bhumibol Dam provides an ideal setting for the mountain bike races.

The Thailand International Swan Boat Races and Long Boat Race Championships Thailand will be held on September 13-14, 2008 on the section of the Chao Phraya River at the Bang Sai Royal Folk Arts and Crafts Centre in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province.

As night falls, majestic ‘fire boats’, elaborately-adorned with flowers, incense sticks, candles and lanterns and each bearing an assortment of ritual offerings, are set alight and floated down the Mekong River.

As the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (usually in mid-November) lights up the night sky, throughout the Thai kingdom, hundreds of thousands of ornately-decorated krathong or traditional banana leaf floats are set adrift in rivers and waterways in a spell-binding ritual called "Loi Krathong" - the 'festival of lights".

The Phuket King's Cup Regatta is Asia's biggest and most popular regatta. More than a regatta, the week long event consists of great parties, great sailing and lots of fun.

The Royal Trophy – Europe vs Asia Golf Championship is a unique, emotionally-charged and passionate competition played between the continents of Europe and Asia in a team match-play format.

Chinese New Year celebrations and festivities will be staged along several roads in the heart of Bangkok's famous ‘Chinatown'. Designated the ‘Thai-Chinese Friendship Avenue', the route extends from Traimit Road, past Wat Traimit temple, Chalermphrakiat Arch, Yawaraj Road to Ratchawong intersection.