Amazing Thailand is a promotional slogan used by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) to promote tourism to the country. It was originally conceived as a two-year campaign to span the years 1998 and 1999, but was extended for several years and has since become a perennial slogan of the TAT.
The original Amazing Thailand campaign was conceived in response to the 1997 financial crisis which crippled the country's economy, in order to leverage the fall in value of the baht to promote tourism and bring in foreign spending. It featured materials with imagery conveying a striking, sensual aesthetic, and identified "nine facets of travel" in its promotion.
The campaign—which was planned to coincide with two major events: the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, and the 72th birthday anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1999—was well received, and was extended into the following years. Amazing Thailand was used as a primary promotional slogan until 2004, and was revived in 2007. It is now usually expanded upon with several taglines or variants on the wording. These include "Amazing Thailand Always Amazes You", introduced in 2011, "Amazing Thailand: It Begins with the People" in 2014, and "Amazing Thailand, Amazing New Chapters" in 2022.
References
- Redden, Guy (30 November 2017). "The Textuality of Tourism and the Ontology of Resource: An Amazing Thai Case Study". In Dale, Leigh (ed.). Economies of Representation, 1790–2000: Colonialism and Commerce. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-15922-7.
- ปิ่น บุตรี (22 August 2022). ""Amazing Thailand" แคมเปญท่องเที่ยวไทยดังระดับโลก ที่ไม่ถูกใจ "ท๊อป บิทคับ"". Manager (in Thai). Retrieved 29 January 2024.
External links
- Amazing Thailand Logo Manual – TAT material for the original 1998 campaign