Amazing Thailand Festivals & Events
Festival Of June 2009
1st Asian Martial Arts Games 2009
Date(s): 6 - 14 June 2009
Venue: Thailand

1st Asian Martial Arts Games 2009
The 1st Asian Martial Arts Games 2009 will be hosted by Thailand from 25 April to 3 May 2009 in Bangkok as well as Suphan Buri province of Thailand.

Featured games including compulsory Martial Arts, namely Karatedo, Kickboxing, Wushu, Muay, Kungfu and Kurash, as well as optional Martial Arts namely, Jujitsu & Beltwrestling, Pencat Silat and Kaliripattu.

This event will see the participation from 45 countries with expecting more than 2,500 competitors around the world.
8th Koh Samui regatta
Date(s): 1 - 6 June 2009
Venue: Koh Samui

Now in its seventh year, the Koh Samui Regatta is set to maintain its strong reputation as one of the highlights of the Asian sailing circuit. The week long sailing extravaganza, now officially recognized by the International Sailing Federation, brings together many of the world’s top sailors guaranteeing a week of fun filled racing action and passionate partying.

The Regatta is organized under the auspices of the Yacht Racing Association of Thailand. Racing takes place over five days comprising of a mixture of coastal passages and around the cans.
The event culminates in a VIP gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Central Samui Beach Resort. Evening cocktail parties are held at various locations throughout the Regatta.
Phuket Film Festival 2009
Date(s): 4 - 11 June 2009
Venue: Phuket Film Festival to Turn the Spotlight on Taiwanese Film

Phuket Film Festival 2009
The Phuket Film Festival is proud to announce a Spotlight on Taiwanese Film will take place during the second edition of the festival which will run June 4 - 11 2009 at the Coliseum Theaters in Phuket Town, on the beautiful international resort destination of Phuket, Thailand. The 2009 edition of the Festival will screen over 40 award winning movies from 17 countries.

Supporting the Academy Award nominated and other award winning Taiwanese films will be directors, producers, actors and actresses traveling to the Festival from Taiwan. They will join other Festival VIPs on a special tour of the island to raise awareness of Phuket as a world-class film location providing a comprehensive range of international class production services.

Thailand Tourism Festival 2009
Date(s): 4 - 7 June 2009
Venue: At Challenger Hall 1-2, Impact Muang Thong Thani Exhibition Centre Pakkred District, Nonthaburi

Admission is free.

At 40,000 square metres, the Thailand Tourism Festival (TTF) is billed as the country’s largest travel and tourism showcase event that includes a vast range of activities to promote the preservation of Thai culture, traditions and local way of life.

Spectacular stage performances and live demonstrations of local arts and crafts add a colorful festive feel to the event as hundreds of professional travel and tourism operators and service providers from all regions of Thailand offer quality tourism products and services and travel specialists help individual travelers and families to plan their trips.

Amazing Thailand Grand Sale 2009
Date(s): 1 June - 31 August 2009
Venue: stores, hotels, restaurants, and tourist attraction nationwide

Thailand’s annual "Amazing Thailand Grand Sale" got underway this month and continues to offer visitors great bargains right through to 31 August. This year, as fuel prices escalate, both visitors and residents are looking for more value and bigger discounts when they are shopping.

Thailand never disappoints. Most mega stores and shopping malls are offering discounts of between 10 to 70%, so there are bargains galore for the shopper prepared to browse around the stores. Fortunately, most of Bangkok’s major shopping malls and stores are located close to the city’s skytrain or metro transport systems, making it very convenient to hop from one store to the next.

Both the Skytrain and the Metro, offer day use stored-value cards for visitors to make it even more convenient to use the two systems. Bangkok’s main shopping districts and streets are to be found along Ploenchit and Sukhumvit roads.

Hua Hin Jazz Festival
Date(s): 12 - 14 June 2009
Venue: Hua Hin Beach, Prachuap Khiri Khan

Hua Hin Jazz Festival
Jazz lovers know exactly where they should be come mid-June. They are catching an invigorating sea breeze and dining on fresh sea food at Hua Hin’s famous beachside restaurants. But only when they are not soaking up the serious stuff - musical concerts delivering the very best in jazz, compliments of a variety of local and international bands.

Hua Hin shakes off its low season blues, 12 to 14 June, every year for its international jazz festival at sites on the beach and in the centre of this laid back resort town that graces Thailand’s western coast of the Gulf of Thailand.

Hua Hin is approximately 220 km from Bangkok and is noted for being the country’s first beach resort discovered by royalty and nobility in the post war years when the only feasible way to reach its golden beaches was by steam train.
Laguna Phuket International Marathon
Date(s): 14 June 2009
Venue: Laguna Beach Resort, Phuket

Laguna Phuket International Marathon
A scenic route along some of Phuket’s most spectacular west coast bays makes this an event that attracts runners ready to achieve a personal best. Some marathons shine brighter than others in this highly competitive field of events.

The Laguna Phuket International Marathon is one of them, due its incredibly scenic route along some of the island’s best beaches and on roads that wind through shady rubber plantations.

The date for the next Laguna Phuket International Marathon has now been confirmed for 14th June 2009.

The event will again feature a Marathon, Half Marathon, 10 Km Run, 5 Km Walk and a 2 Km Kids Run. Registration will open on 1st October 2008 with an early bird discount fee until 31 March 2008. Accommodation packages at Laguna Phuket will also be available for booking from 1st October.
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