Koh Larn drawing 10,000 tourists a day
published : 15 Mar 2023 at 16:36
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
More than 130,000 tourists have visited Koh Larn, a popular tourist island off Pattaya, so far this month and the number will surge as Chinese tour groups start arriving in Pattaya soon.
Officials had been counting the number of visitors boarding passenger boats at Bali Hai pier in South Pattaya for Koh Larn since March 1.
Over the past two weeks, they counted about 130,000 tourists, or more than 10,000 visitors a day. Of the total, 70% were Thais. The remaining 30% were from Russia, India and European countries.
The arrival of more tourists has been a welcome boost to Pattaya’s economy.
Pattaya City has been looking to improve its infrastructure now that China is allowing tour groups to travel abroad. Facilities at tourist venues such as Na Ban pier and Ta Waen beach pier and roads will be developed.
However, the deputy mayor said that the number of hotel rooms was not enough for the rising number of tourists arriving in the beach town.
Vocabulary
- abroad: in or to a foreign country - ในต่างประเทศ
- board: to get onto a ship, aircraft, train, or bus - ขึ้น(เรือ รถเมล์ รถไฟ เครื่องบิน)
- boost: an action or event that helps something to increase, improve, or become more successful - การส่งเสริม
- develop (verb): to gradually grow and improve something so that it becomes more advanced, stronger and successful - พัฒนา
- draw: to attract or interest somebody - ดึงดูดความสนใจ
- economy: the relationship between production, trade and the supply of money in a particular country or region - เศรษฐกิจ
- facility (noun): a building, equipment, etc., used for a particular purpose - โรงงาน, สถานบริการ, สิ่งก่อสร้าง, สิ่งอำนวยความสะดวก
- infrastructure: a set of systems within a place or organisation that affect how well it operates, e.g., the telephone and transport systems in a country or the system of train tracks that a railway uses - สาธารณูปโภค
- official: someone with an important position in an organisation - เจ้าหน้าที่
