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2.69 Million Tourist Arrivals Expected for Songkran Festival As many expats and long-term tourists are preparing to leave Pattaya and Thailand specially for Songkran, MCOT reports that "at least 2.69 million tourists will arrive Thailand on 16,000 flights from next week to celebrate the water-splashing Songkran festival, according to the Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT)." More than 22 million foreign tourists visited the country throughout 2012, so an anticipated number of 2.69 million tourist arrivals only for the upcoming Thai new year festival is, to say the least, obviously massive. On the o