Chinese New Year travel up from last year

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CNY travel up from last year

 

   

SONGKLA, 5th February 2019 (NNT) – Chinese New Year celebrations took place nationwide yesterday (February 4).

 

In Hat Yai Municipality in Songkla province, Thais of Chinese descent spent much of the day lighting incense to pray to deities and their ancestors while also setting off firecrackers and burning effigies to ensure merit for themselves and their families. Many gathered as families to mark the holiday.

 

At the Thai-Chinese community along Ruammitr road in Yala province, tables full of offerings including traditional meals and fruits lined the street. Imitations of valuable goods were also burnt as an offering to ancestors.

 

In front of Pung Tao Kong Nan Shrine in Nan province, people of Chinese heritage wearing red clothing gathered to pray. The shrine has stood for Thais of Chinese heritage for 113 years and received an award for excellence in 2010.

 

Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Governor Yuthasak Supasorn expects 1.03 million Thais to have traveled to family reunions during the Chinese New Year period between February 4 and 10, up 8 percent from last year and generating 24 billion baht in revenue for the nation, an increase of 11.5 percent compared to the year before.

 

Meanwhile, Thailand is targeting 40.6 foreign visitors and 2.2 trillion baht in tourism revenue this year, an increase of about 10 percent from last year. A similar increase is expected among domestic tourists with 178 million people likely to travel this year, spending 1.2 trillion baht.

 

-- nnt 2019-02-05

[lipflipper]

Blah, blah, blah more twaddle from the always optimistic Minister of Tourism. And since it's the Chinese of course they have to kiss their ars..es.

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[dcnx]

But just 2 or 3 days ago they said the Chinese were choosing to stay at home this year.

 

Thailand is a perfect example at scale of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. 

 

Rubbish news as usual.

[fullcave]

Welcome to little China.

[madmitch]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

ourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Governor Yuthasak Supasorn expects 1.03 million Thais to have traveled to family reunions during the Chinese New Year

Why the .03? This shows that it's just some clerk working it out on a calculator.

 

20 hours ago, webfact said:

A similar increase is expected among domestic tourists with 178 million people likely to travel this year, spending 1.2 trillion baht

178 million? Blimey! Has Thailand had a population explosion?

[RotBenz8888]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand is targeting 40.6 foreign visitors

Finally they got realistic.

BTW, is that 0.6 person a low quality tourist?