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Comment by 美索 布達米亞 on October 11, 2022 at 6:28pm

Thailand’s creative industries showing steady growth

Creative industries are a promising component of Thailand’s economy and national development strategy, while the government expects those industries to expand by 3.5 percent next year and earn over $100 billion.

Recognizing the value of arts and innovation, the Thai government has established the Creative Economy Agency. It counts 15 sectors in its portfolio that contribute roughly 10 percent to Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP). Agency Chief Apisit Laistrooglai said that the growth of the creative economy was higher than that of total GDP during the past year.

Thailand’s 20-year national strategy named Thailand 4.0 relies on fostering creativity, innovation, and research and development to proper the Kingdom’s economy and society to a more advanced level of development.

Economic planners have said that Thailand’s tourism, food and traditional medicine sectors are a source of soft power for the Kingdom. Other creative industries, however, are also making greater contributions to growth. Among them are software design, animation, gaming and entertainment.

With people spending more time at home, the pandemic spurred greater growth in sales of handicrafts, food and software products, including online games and entertainment, according to Apisit.

People working in software and gaming and entertainment had the highest average incomes among creative industries, while handicraft artisans had the lowest.

Apisit added that creative industries could provide an even larger share of growth with more government support.

“The government sector should be the backbone for soft power development, offering attractive tax incentives and strong promotional campaigns to compete with other countries that ramped up their creative industries recently,” he said.

Comment by 美索 布達米亞 on October 11, 2022 at 6:28pm

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Comment by 美索 布達米亞 on March 28, 2021 at 4:47pm

鳥人Robbi：望加錫印象，兼記Bantimurung半日賞鳥 （1）

跟隨華萊士的腳步。

圖 1. 華萊士的“馬來群島”範圍示意，不包括右下方的澳大利亞，婆羅洲在印尼稱作加裏曼丹，另外新幾內亞島印尼一側共分兩個省，除包括“鳥頭半島”和相鄰地區的西巴布亞省而外，還有面積更大的巴布亞省。（地圖引自Google Map）

2016年年中，因為偶然的機會，參與了北京大學出版社《天堂飛鳥：古爾德手繪鳥類圖譜》的工作。關於本書的具體介紹參見薦書 No. 6《天堂之鳥——古爾德手繪鳥類圖鑒》（是的，我知道，這條推送的題目寫錯了...）。在寫作準備的過程中，對以極樂鳥們為代表的新幾內亞島鳥類有了更多的了解。作為一個觀鳥者（俗稱‘鳥人’，birder），對這片神奇土地的向往也更增添了無數分。

2016年年底，由於另一個偶然的機會，有幸參加一對”神雕俠侶“以觀鳥為主的自然向大型蜜月（陸陸續續長達三個多月，你說算不算大型？）行程中西巴布亞部分的前半程。從報名加入，到期間各種準備，再到最終在這個六月初順利成行。如今回到家中，開始在電腦上敲打眼下這些文字時，回想起整個行程感覺依舊很夢幻。作為人生夙願之一的在野外見到極樂鳥，居然真的就這樣夢想成真了。

從今天開始，不定期推送這次行程的遊記和見聞。祝願自己挖的這個大坑，早日填滿！

望加錫（Makassar）

由於機票預訂的原因，往返都在印度尼西亞蘇拉威西島（Sulawesi）的南蘇拉威西省首府望加錫中轉，而且最初的計劃也真就隻是中轉而已。哪知回程中的一段遇到了航班調整，使得在望加錫中轉時肯定趕不上下一航班，導致原計劃在吉隆坡逗留兩天的安排泡湯。後來發現，在印尼航班晚點是相當稀鬆平常的事情，在此也提醒下有計劃前去遊玩的朋友，行程安排上應留有富余。如果涉及到在印尼國內的轉機，前後兩個航班之間的間隔時間最好能保證在3個小時以上。

不管怎麽說，從16日下午抵達，到17日下午離開，這下在望加錫就有了整整一天的時間需要打發了。我的選擇是16日下午進城觀光，17日上午去附近的一個國家公園賞鳥。

                                                                            (http://thetravel.me)

圖 3. 蘇拉威西島的形狀像英文字母K，望加錫就在圖中藍色圓點的位置（地圖引自Google Map）

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