Packaged tours down, Europeans up for Pattaya high season

[Rimmer]

Packaged tours down, Europeans up for Pattaya high season

PATTAYA:--Pattaya tourism officials say high season is off to a good start, with visitors increasingly shunning package tours.

 

Pattaya Business & Tourism Association President Ekasit Ngampichet said Dec. 8 that while Chinese tourists remain the city’s biggest visitor bloc, he is encouraging by the rebound in European arrivals, which is up 10 percent over last year.

 

The biggest improvement, however, is the growth in the independent traveler segment. The so-called “FIT” tourists – which alternately stands for either “free”, “frequent” or “foreign” independent traveler – are ones who books their own travel and don’t arrive on packaged tours.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/packaged-tours-europeans-pattaya-high-season-194507

 

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[champers]

There are quite a few young FIT Chinese women around.

[pattayadon]

Must Read:   555!

[TKDfella]

Oh, don't they they love these big round stats! I think someone made a typo with the zero.

[Redvic]

The usual BS Pattaya now is a ghost town. Hotels empty bars empty retraunts empty. The man is an idiot 

[thaibeachlovers]

That photo is not of Pattaya beach so meaningless.