Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan postponed due to Makha Bucha Day

Phangan full moon party postponed

Published: 25 Feb 2013 at 08.42
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The Full Moon Party at Surat Thani's Koh Phangan will be postponed on Monday and Tuesday due to the Buddhist religious festival, Makha Bucha Day.

Tourists dance and party at Koh Phangan last year. (File Photo)

Wannee Thaipanich, president of the Phangan Tourist Promotion Association, said the postponement will enable Buddhists to observe religious practices on Monday.

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ubuntu
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Discussion 12 : 25 Feb 2013 at 16.5612
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D2 one main reason is to allow or encourage tourist to stay longer and that they will spent more money in the place and Thai will have more money hahahah... everything is money. all that comes out from our mouth is profit.. money and money and more money....

You assume a lot. You are implying officials actually had a strategy in advance to do this as to increase revenues. Why not just "standard incompetence", a more likely scenario. Prior to speaking the language it is easy to believe problems are due to a language barrier. Once you become fairly fluent you realize incompetence permeates society except for asmall %. Apologies to those peo
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Discussion 11 : 25 Feb 2013 at 14.4411
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'The delay would have no impact on tourism activities .....she said.' So thousands of tourists trying to get a hotel/resort/guesthouse/ airline/railway to suddenly change bookings made weeks and months ago is not tourism related? This woman is clearly destined for a cabinet post.
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Discussion 10 : 25 Feb 2013 at 14.1810
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so why did the authorities promote this event ,when they knew it fell on a religous day ,just some more small white lies,at the expenses of some young tourists
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Discussion 9 : 25 Feb 2013 at 11.449
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"Hopefully no one will be will be shot this time round." Or drown, or OD on drugs etc.
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Discussion 8 : 25 Feb 2013 at 11.078
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It is the same every night except at Full Moon, X-Mas and New Years there are more people and the prices double.
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Discussion 7 : 25 Feb 2013 at 10.377
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"The delay would have no impact on tourism activities but would encourage travellers to extend their stay in the area, she said."

More likely to piss off tourists.
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Discussion 6 : 25 Feb 2013 at 10.296
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Perhaps this totally non-Thai drunken revilry could be cancelled instead of just postponed.

Such a nice beach, too....
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Discussion 5 : 25 Feb 2013 at 09.325
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"The delay would have no impact on tourism activities but would encourage travellers to extend their stay in the area, she said."

I hope that these adjustments were well advertised ahead of time. Most travellers are on tight schedules and are not necessarily in a position to "extend their stay". Adjusting the party dates to avoid Buddhist holidays, fair enough, but if you have not "put the word out" months ago, you risk having a lot of disgruntled tourists.
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Discussion 4 : 25 Feb 2013 at 09.254
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The delay would have no impact on tourism activities but would encourage travellers to extend their stay in the area, she said.

Yes i can see all the travellers phoning travel agents to change their flights to stay longer so they can get drunk on a beach?????

If it makes to difference to tourism then why have them?
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Discussion 3 : 25 Feb 2013 at 09.253
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Hopefully no one will be will be shot this time round .
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