International travellers drive tourism boom in Kingdom’s secondary destinations 

By The Nation

 

Expedia Group, the global travel platform, on Tuesday revealed that international travellers had become the driving force behind the tourism boom in Thailand’s secondary destinations. 

 

The company’s statistics show that nearly 90 per cent of the demand for travel to Chiang Rai, Koh Lipe (in Satun), Mae Hong Son, Trang and Trat had come from international travellers in the 12 months ending on June 30, and that the pace of overall inbound demand to these destinations had grown by 30 per cent, year on year.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/Economy/30351164

 

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Most likely because most Thais don't use Expedia.

The grand hoo ha and TAT have not taken any credit for this foreign analysis.   Possibly because they are not all that familiar with places outside of metro Bangkok. 

22 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

international travellers had become the driving force behind the tourism boom in Thailand’s secondary destinations. 

Not sure the importance of this statistics as domestic tourism activity generates up to half of the total tourist revenues.

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1049167-foreign-tourists-top-20-million-in-first-half-of-year/?utm_source=newsletter-20180720-0635&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

23 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

International travellers drive tourism boom in Kingdom’s secondary destinations 

In the larger picture 9.8 million or more than 27% of all arrivals came from China in 2017.\

In the first 5 months of 2018 about 30% are from China.

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In terms of national security and economic sustainability, the Thai government is placing Thailand further in a precipitous economic position with a regional superpower.