More than 600 cycling enthusiasts took part in a two-day recreational tour of this Eastern Thai province as part of the efforts to revive domestic tourism and stimulate the economy in the post-COVID-19 era.
The event was organized by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) under the name “Happy Bike Without COVID 2020”. It comprised of two cycling tours on 1 and 2 August through some of this province’s most iconic scenic, culinary and cultural spots.
The tours were held with strict observation of the New Normal preventive measures, including social distancing. The 300 participants in each tour cycled in groups of five or 10, with individual cyclists at least one metre apart and each group at least 500 metres apart.
The Royal Prasae Warship Memorial was chosen as the start and end point for the tours because it is a monument of the HTMS Prasae, one of the Thai battleships that took part in the Korean War in the 1950s. It also has a shrine to pay respect to the widely revered Prince of Chumphon, the father of the Thai Navy.
Rayong is one of the three provinces of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand, which are being developed as a technological, manufacturing, and service hub with strong connectivity to its ASEAN neighbours by land, sea and air.
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