Many congratulations are due to everyone involved with the Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes on reaching this your 15th year of the tournament! The long-term association of the Northern TAT Region 1 office with the Sixes, makes me feel very pleased and proud that we share a small part in your success. I hope, going forward, we can continue to build on our partnership.

With thirty teams expected to take part in Sixes's week this year, the tournament has come of age as a significant tourist event, bringing many new and returning visitors to Chiang Mai each year. We welcome the new teams and hope you will find sporting success as well as to experience some of the magic in what we are proud to call "Amazing Thailand". And for our returning Sixes's regulars, a very special 'sawadee kha' we are always so happy when old friends return. It is surely a tribute both to the success of your tournament, and to Chiang Mai's warm hospitality, that so many now treat northern Thailand like a second home!

As always, and on behalf of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, it is with great pleasure that I welcome all of this year's Sixes's participants to Chiang Mai. I hope you enjoy a very special week with us. And if you do, please tell everyone at home, and be sure to come again yourself !

Nattera Kachornserelikitkul
Director,Tourism Authority of Thailand.