It’s been a dreadful year for arrivals, but not all the tourists are lost (like tears … in rain.)
Three decades after “Blade Runner,” farang sentimentality for dark dystopian science fiction continues to serve tourism in the capital.
That was one of the reasons given by Conde Nast Traveller, whose readers named Bangkok one of the top 25 cities in the world to visit.
The magazine describes the city as a “type of futuristic city” where “soaring, glass-panelled buildings house the world’s economic elite while at street level rickshaws and mopeds weave through snarls of traffic.” Which is pretty much how everyone who’s seen Blade Runner sees the Thai capital.
Bangkok came in 13th place among the 77,000 readers polled, who also voted the cool, northern city of Chiang Mai as No. 21 for being “the culinary capital of Thailand with several excellent cooking schools and a popular market scene whose standout is the night bazaar on Chang Klan Road.”
Image: Steven Changnon and Ilya Nedyal
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