Projection: 23m tourist arrivals in 2013

Published: 10 Dec 2012 at 14.13
Online news: Tourism

Thailand's tourism industry is likely to grow by more than 10% next year and about 23 million foreigners are expected to visit the country in 2013, Association of Thai Travel Agents (Atta) president Sisdivachr Cheewarattanporn said on Monday.

This article is older than 60 days, which we reserve for our premium members only.You can subscribe to our premium member subscription, here.

Forum

Your comments

Asterix
Post : 77
Send message

Discussion 11 : 13 Dec 2012 at 11.1811
Post this to my Facebook
More tourists does mean more revenue especially for local people.
TAT squizz large hotels, low-cost airlines and mass-tourism tour companies to ffer in special packages low prices to attract as much as tourists they can but at the end excepted TAT who have artificially increase the number of tourists none tourism-related players make money and even less local people. It is time TAT changes its strategy of mass-tourism in favour of tourists spending more money with local businesses.
Like dislike 22 people liked / 2 people disliked this comment
mrexpat
Post : 127
Send message

Discussion 10 : 11 Dec 2012 at 07.5810
Post this to my Facebook
bkposter
pattaya is quiet too, people are posting photos on facebook of quiet bars and beaches, phangan the same as is krabi. You only got to look at the half empty planes coming in. Oh chaing mai is quiet too for tourist, the numbers are down and they dont spend money. You are right i have spoke to chinese and indian tourist, even here on samui but not many and they dont spend much!Some bars are selling only few beers a week if that its that bad! Please tell me where they are all hiding please
Like dislike 26 people liked / 2 people disliked this comment
nitnoi
Post : 574
Send message

Discussion 9 : 10 Dec 2012 at 22.169
Post this to my Facebook
Well, enter Thailand at your own risk, good luck and enjoy with cautions.
Like dislike 24 people liked / 2 people disliked this comment
borrocks
Post : 229
Send message

Discussion 8 : 10 Dec 2012 at 19.298
Post this to my Facebook
i think Thailand needs to take care of the tourist it has now ...how about training the police to actually take crime against foreigners seriously whether a scam, assault or murder...police should also as a MINIMUM have official legal papers translated into English (as was shown to be a massive problem for the boyfriend of the lady who died on from the motorcycle accident on Samui)
Like dislike 28 people liked / 1 people disliked this comment
bkposter
Post : 1,322
Send message

Discussion 7 : 10 Dec 2012 at 19.077
Post this to my Facebook
Re: D3 Most of the added tourists are from Asia, and are able to afford Sumui. Sumui was a destination for well healed individual Europeans and that market is very weak at the moment. The tourists now are Asian and Russian and both groups are on cheap package tours, and both groups spend little outside those tours. The Psttaya market and the east coast is much cheaper for them and I hear that it is very busy there now in the low end package hotels and bus tours.
Like dislike 24 people liked / 1 people disliked this comment
pointoffew
Post : 1,269
Send message

Discussion 6 : 10 Dec 2012 at 18.526
Post this to my Facebook
Why not introduce some sort of minimum holiday for all labour, say 2 weeks per year. Support domestic tourism and the well-being of the people. Give them a chance to see a bit more of their country. Reducing their annual days and hours of work should benefit public health, the well-being of the people, employment and the overall economy. Or are employees 'only employees'?
Like dislike 26 people liked / 0 people disliked this comment
pointoffew
Post : 1,269
Send message

Discussion 5 : 10 Dec 2012 at 18.475
Post this to my Facebook
The arrival numbers are close to irrelevant. Not only do they include a very substantial - and likely increasing - number of visa runs, what counts for the tourism industry is how many real tourists arrive, how much time they spend in Thailand - tourists from China, South Korea and Japan, on average spend considerably less time in Thailand than western tourists - and, of course most important of all: how much they spend, on services and Thai products. Purchases of imported luxury goods barely support the Thai economy.
Like dislike 26 people liked / 2 people disliked this comment
upena
Post : 1,393
Send message

Discussion 4 : 10 Dec 2012 at 18.134
Post this to my Facebook
ATTA must be going to the same school of make-believe numbers that TAT goes to.
Like dislike 25 people liked / 3 people disliked this comment
mrexpat
Post : 127
Send message

Discussion 3 : 10 Dec 2012 at 16.093
Post this to my Facebook
TAT should come to samui now in high season and see how empty it is, all locals moaning its the quietest year since tourism begun. The high season seems to be for 2 wks over christmas and a week over songkran, Go tell your fairy tales somewhere else please
Alot of hotels and restaurants have more staff than customers
Like dislike 53 people liked / 3 people disliked this comment
bkk-farang
Post : 2,310
Send message

Discussion 2 : 10 Dec 2012 at 15.452
Post this to my Facebook
“The projection is based on an assumption that there will be no political violence, he said.”
Now why would they base anything on that ambiguous assumption?
Like dislike 45 people liked / 5 people disliked this comment