Government eyes 3.03 trillion baht revenue from tourism next year

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Government eyes 3.03 trillion baht revenue from tourism next year

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The government has set a target to earn as much as 3.03 trillion baht from tourism industry for 2017 with emphasis on “quality” tourists instead of quantity, said government spokesman Lt-Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd on Sunday.

 

He said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has wanted tourists to spend longer and worthy time in Thailand, especially in Bangkok.

 

Under the slogan of “Amazing Thailand 2018”, he said the government would seek cooperation from private and government sectors, tourism operators, shopping malls and airlines to join in the activities to promote tourism and to attract more tourists into the country with emphasis on tourism to learn the Thai way of life.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/government-eyes-3-03-trillion-baht-revenue-tourism-next-year/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-09-11

[the guest]

Sorry, but Thailand are out of their league in attracting 'quality' tourists. There are many other places in the world where 'quality' tourists visit.

[Dexlowe]

Once again, long on rhetoric, short on detail. Sounds like they might have more success stationing officials at immigration checkpoints and weeding out any arrivals who aren't wearing an Armani suit.

[lamyai3]

Hub of eyeing up

[ezzra]

"Quality tourists".... isn't what every county wants? who want a riff ruff

chap charlie tourists? nobody of course...

in order to get those, issues such immigration, transportation, dubble

charging and language skills should be dealt with to be able to attract

the big spenders and the better quality visitors...

 

[Dave67]

I find it distasteful when the amount of money made from Tourism is constantly referred to, They have nothing else to shout about I suppose 

[Ricardo]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has wanted tourists to spend longer and worthy time in Thailand

 

Oh good, perhaps the government might like to assist the tourist-industry in achieving this, by making  '30-days visa-exempt on-arrival'  into  ' 90-days on-arrival',  like Malaysia ?

 

At the stroke of a pen, and especially with article-44 now available to make these things easy, the PM might actually do something to help ? 

 

And if he still has time before coffee, then abolish 90-day reporting, replacing it with a requirement merely to report one's change-of-permanent-address to Immigration, instead ? 

 

And tell Immigration to forget about TM-28s & TM30s, too ?

 

In summary, the Prime Minister has it well within his powers, to actually make Thailand more-attractive to longer-staying tourists of the type he apparently wants to encourage, so please stop making announcements like this one and just do it ! 

 

 

[Thian]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

with emphasis on tourism to learn the Thai way of life

So they can litter, be selfish, not obey any rules, feed soidogs....well in that case don't go for European tourists....

[thesetat2013]

isn't this like 1 trillion more than this year boasted tourism dollar expectancy?
the only way they will get so much is to raise prices for tourists.. Good luck with this fantasy

[anon789561]

it's unfortunate but many of the kind of 'quality' tourists they refer to are able to read the endless stories that come out of thailand. they can hide things away here but not where these 'quality' tourists are coming from. well to do family holiday makers have plenty of destinations to choose from that they haven't recently seen in the news for things such as, seriously questionable safety standards across the spectrum of activities available, extortion, the harboring of foreign criminals, numerous deaths under highly suspicious circumstances. the authorities need to understand that until it sorts out the deep rooted corruption within the police that allows these things to happen, many of the well to do tourists that they are targeting won't 'risk' coming to a place like thailand

[Get Real]

I can clearly see that they succeeded with the quality tourists gig. Snatching, grouping, fighting and getting mad as usual still rules. Why change a good concept.

[YetAnother]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

with emphasis on tourism to learn the Thai way of life.

very small percentage of the type of tourists coming here today are primarily interested in that; and the tour guides often present a hugely distorted picture; i once was in my local fresh market that i know well and a mini van tour came in , i listened to what the tour guide was saying and i started laughing, amazingly, almost everything he said was wrong

Edited September 11, 2017 by YetAnother

[kunfish]

What about the retirement people who bring tons of cash into the country? Story on that?

[RichardColeman]

Interested to know what the ratio of tourist deaths to baht income from tourism is and how the death toll will rise accordingly

[wgdanson]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

"Quality tourists".... isn't what every county wants? who want a riff ruff

chap charlie tourists? nobody of course...

in order to get those, issues such immigration, transportation, dubble

charging and language skills should be dealt with to be able to attract

the big spenders and the better quality visitors...

 

Language skills????  Riff RAFF, CHEAP Charlie, DOUBLE..., 

[upena]

Why not say 5 trillion or 10 trillion? After all, there is absolutely no way for anyone to know how much revenue tourists generate.

[klauskunkel]

"Amazing Thailand", that slogan is at least 12 years old..., isn't it time to come up with a new one for the quality tourists? Like "Amusing Thailand"?

[yellowboat]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

He said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has wanted tourists to spend longer and worthy time in Thailand, especially in Bangkok.

Why does he want to play favorites to those who live in Bangkok?  Who does that help people in the rest of Thailand?  So if you own a hotel in Samui, the PM is actually working against your interests ?   Government favoritism is wrong.  What a thoughtless, ridicules statement.

[mania]

People do not come to Thailand for Quality they come for cheap

 

It is not likely Thailand will ever attract true quality tourism

Why would it when so many true quality destinations exist?

Remember Quality Tourist are not bothered by higher price nor seek the bottom of the barrel

Edited September 11, 2017 by mania

[mikebell]

29 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

"Amazing Thailand", that slogan is at least 12 years old..., isn't it time to come up with a new one for the quality tourists? Like "Amusing Thailand"?

I had it first!  That's the title of my ebook.

[mikebell]

Why don't they go after long-term retirees?  We have at least 65,000 baht per month to spend.  Sooner or later the penny will drop & they will recognise that Malaysia & Vietnam are cornering this market.

Allow home ownership; easier long-term visas; scrap 90 day reporting & other peripheral nonsense; abolish corrupt police who see tourists as cash cows to be milked.

[madmitch]

This article could have been regurgitated from similar announcements from the past ten years. If anything the quality has gone down during that time and as for getting people to stay longer, well that went out of the window when they started to court the Chinese tour groups, meaning arrival numbers are up but hotel nights are probably down.

 

The feeling among many in Phuket is that the Chinese and, to an extent, the Russians will almost completely replace Western tourists in the not-too-distant future. I don't know about the rest of Thailand, though I really can't see too many quality tourists staying in the arse-end-of-nowhere towns and provinces that the Government are looking to promote.

 

[mania]

10 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Why don't they go after long-term retirees?  We have at least 65,000 baht per month to spend.  Sooner or later the penny will drop & they will recognise that Malaysia & Vietnam are cornering this market.

Allow home ownership; easier long-term visas; scrap 90 day reporting & other peripheral nonsense; abolish corrupt police who see tourists as cash cows to be milked.

This is very true & something that could be a good "realistic" earner for Thailand

[CGW]

Last year there were ~8.5 million Chinese tourists visited Thailand? if they only want "Quality" how are they going to prevent the other 8.4 million entering?

[Ulic]

3 hours ago, Dexlowe said:

Once again, long on rhetoric, short on detail. Sounds like they might have more success stationing officials at immigration checkpoints and weeding out any arrivals who aren't wearing an Armani suit.

Or flying business class

[Ulic]

16 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Why don't they go after long-term retirees?  We have at least 65,000 baht per month to spend.  Sooner or later the penny will drop & they will recognise that Malaysia & Vietnam are cornering this market.

Allow home ownership; easier long-term visas; scrap 90 day reporting & other peripheral nonsense; abolish corrupt police who see tourists as cash cows to be milked.

They wont do it because it makes sense and would be too easy.

[johnnybgood]

2 hours ago, kunfish said:

What about the retirement people who bring tons of cash into the country? Story on that?

 

52 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Why don't they go after long-term retirees?  We have at least 65,000 baht per month to spend.  Sooner or later the penny will drop & they will recognise that Malaysia & Vietnam are cornering this market.

Allow home ownership; easier long-term visas; scrap 90 day reporting & other peripheral nonsense; abolish corrupt police who see tourists as cash cows to be milked.

 

41 minutes ago, mania said:

This is very true & something that could be a good "realistic" earner for Thailand

 

35 minutes ago, Ulic said:

They wont do it because it makes sense and would be too easy.

2 hours ago, kunfish said:

What about the retirement people who bring tons of cash into the country? Story on that?

There ya go..........

Please put that in your survey pipe 'n' smoke it..........

[Godang]

43 minutes ago, mania said:

This is very true & something that could be a good "realistic" earner for Thailand

Not every retiree has 65000 a month.

[Tchooptip]

So answer for any argument with anyone in Thailand:

Do you know who I am?

 

...It would be better for you to know! 

I am a part of the 3.3 trillion฿ earn by the tourism industry, yes 3.3trillion฿, so you'd better beware Pffff

 

[greeneking]

1 hour ago, yellowboat said:

Why does he want to play favorites to those who live in Bangkok?  Who does that help people in the rest of Thailand?  So if you own a hotel in Samui, the PM is actually working against your interests ?   Government favoritism is wrong.  What a thoughtless, ridicules statement.

isn't Bangkok boring very quickly?

After you have ticked off the Grand Palace, realized you do not want to visit another temple, seen the shopping plazas are more expensive, and often the same shops as back home.  When you have tried the river taxis, the skytrain and underground and found them horribly crowded and they don't go many places and discovered the few taxi drivers who do understand you also don't have working meters. And the heat, the pavements, the difficulty crossing a road......