Tourists generate 2.1 trillion baht during first 10 months

 

BANGKOK, 21 November 2017 (NNT) - The Permanent Secretary for Tourism and Sports, Pongpanu Svetarundra, said arrivals to Thailand generated tourism revenue of more than 2.1 trillion baht during the first 10 months of 2017. 

Mr. Pongpanu said international tourist arrivals stood at over two million in October, up 20.92 percent from a year ago. 

Last month, most foreign tourist arrivals were from East Asia, followed by visitors from Europe, South Asia, and North and South Americas respectively. 

The Chinese remained the largest group, followed by the Malaysians and the Laotians, while the largest spenders were the Chinese, Russians and Malaysians, respectively. 

From January to September this year , local tourists generated revenue of 695.2 billion baht, up 7.34 percent from the same period of 2016.

 

-- nnt 2017-11-21

 

Is this how they come up with their tourist expenditure figures so quickly?

 

Billion and Trillion it's all different in this world and what does it mean in Thailand? keep on dreaming?

The snouts will be happy, the trough is full!

Spend the windfall wisely  for the people  and not on military hardware and benefits for generals and ex-generals  

1 hour ago, RotMahKid said:

Billion and Trillion it's all different in this world and what does it mean in Thailand? keep on dreaming?

It's about 54 billion euro's they could be right i guess .... or not?

Yet Phuket has no infrastructure.
All that money and none gets put back into improving the place.


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Must be a sado/masochistic sort of thing going on here.  

But surely the greatest amount is spent under the radar for nocturnal activities and therefore unaccountable ?

And they still treat tourists like banks/atm, easily to scam and hope they do not complain

 

Can't be true. Tourist numbers were supposed to drop when the Junta took over..According to some..

The   generation  of  expenditure is  somewhat  different  to   the   generation  of  additional  foreign  income.

But  either  way  I  guess  the  VAT  extracted   has been  welcome.

 

9 hours ago, sebastion said:

Yet Phuket has no infrastructure.
All that money and none gets put back into improving the place.


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Thats is why I left.....

How can they possibly know! Do they ask everyone for their passport each time a tourist makes a purchase? This is all supposition and guesswork. Presumably they ask a handful of tourists how much they spend on their holiday and multiply that by the number of foreigners arriving in the country! Utter hogwash!


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Do tourists just send the money over and not bother coming?

19 hours ago, sebastion said:

Yet Phuket has no infrastructure.
All that money and none gets put back into improving the place.


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Same in Chiang Mai, a great deal of which depends on tourists to survive.

All the public infrastructure looks as if it's about 30 or 40 years old and nothing gets repaired or renovated eg the pavements are broken and uneven, but never fixed.

Some of the big roads are apparently never cleaned.

TAT uses sampling to arrive at these figures, it's the same process that's used the world over to determine a variety of factors include populations, unemployment rates, expenditure patterns etc, the UK and the US both use sampling extensively. The way it works is, for example, TAT (or their agents)  identifies some three hundred hotels, six hundred restaurants,  one thousand tour agent etc etc and each is required to supply data on a regular basis regarding number of customers, nationality, length of stay, expenditure per person etc etc. The data is then extrapolated to cover the number of business in the country and a figure is arrived at. As long as there is consistency in the sources of sampling data from year to year, the derived answers will be consistent. Margin of error on these things is typically very low.

48 minutes ago, simoh1490 said:

TAT uses sampling to arrive at these figures, it's the same process that's used the world over to determine a variety of factors include populations, unemployment rates, expenditure patterns etc, the UK and the US both use sampling extensively. The way it works is, for example, TAT (or their agents)  identifies some three hundred hotels, six hundred restaurants,  one thousand tour agent etc etc and each is required to supply data on a regular basis regarding number of customers, nationality, length of stay, expenditure per person etc etc. The data is then extrapolated to cover the number of business in the country and a figure is arrived at. As long as there is consistency in the sources of sampling data from year to year, the derived answers will be consistent. Margin of error on these things is typically very low.

Are you saying that when we fill out the form on arrival saying if we are here on business, tourism etc it ISN'T used to determine how many are here for touristic purposes, coupled, of course, with the TM 30 from every hotel and guest house in the country? In other words, it's just a miniscule sampling extrapolated to a wild guess .

 

Expenditure per person

Right 5555555555555555

I'm sure every guy that visited a soapy or used a S T room reported that expenditure to their hotel receptionist, NOT.

 

Edited November 22, 20178 yr by thaibeachlovers

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Are you saying that when we fill out the form on arrival saying if we are here on business, tourism etc it ISN'T used to determine how many are here for touristic purposes, coupled, of course, with the TM 30 from every hotel and guest house in the country? In other words, it's just a miniscule sampling extrapolated to a wild guess .

I'm saying that TAT uses sampling to determine statistics, what role the Immigration forms may or may not play in that process is anyones guess but I do know that is not the primary source of their statistical data. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the two departments don't even talk to each other on this subject..

Just now, simoh1490 said:

I'm saying that TAT uses sampling to determine statistics, what role the Immigration forms may or may not play in that process is anyones guess but I do know that is not the primary source of their statistical data. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the two departments don't even talk to each other on this subject..

I am not surprised if you are right, but it does make a mockery of the statistics.

Just now, thaibeachlovers said:

I am not surprised if you are right, but it does make a mockery of the statistics.

I think the Immigration forms are simply legacy forms that have become redundant for TAT purposes and they've simply not stopped using them, I can't ever recall having completed one of them and being pulled up for not doing so, not in 20 years - the landing card part yes, the TAT part never.

21 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Are you saying that when we fill out the form on arrival saying if we are here on business, tourism etc it ISN'T used to determine how many are here for touristic purposes, coupled, of course, with the TM 30 from every hotel and guest house in the country? In other words, it's just a miniscule sampling extrapolated to a wild guess .

 

Expenditure per person

Right 5555555555555555

I'm sure every guy that visited a soapy or used a S T room reported that expenditure to their hotel receptionist, NOT.

 

Interestingly, the US government uses the same technique to determine unemployment levels, amongst other things: https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/data_collection/developing_sampling_techniques.html

20 hours ago, sebastion said:

Yet Phuket has no infrastructure.
All that money and none gets put back into improving the place.
 

Pattaya is the same, very poor infrastructure given the income from tourism....

How do they know what groups spend how much?  How do they track cash spending?  And, what about all of the unregistered shops, bungalows and hotels?

As we all know, Thailand is much more heavily dependant of tourist money than they sometimes make out. This makes it more surprising that they seem to want to make policies that would put tourists off coming to the country. Thai logic

Don't concern yourself a billion or a trillion, they cannot count that high so its all just a number plucked from a brain damage idiot.

 All the more reason then to treat the guests of Thailand properly, hospitably and soften visa issues for the farangs/expats !!!

Edited November 22, 20178 yr by observer90210