I have been searching the web for a site that can give me statistics as to which Thailand destinations visitors/tourists head for. It would be even better if that could be broken down by nationality.

That information might be available on one of the Tourist Authority of Thailand's web sites, but if so it must be deeply embedded. I have spent several hours unsuccessfully trying to uncover that information.

Does anyone know where I can access this information? Your wisdom will be appreciated.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/tourism2003/year.html

http://www.bangkokpost.net/tourismreview2005/index.html

http://www.bangkokpost.com/tourismreview2006/

http://www.tatnews.org/tat_release/detail.asp?id=3301

Interesting statistics there Iamatopo. One thing which struck me from this link was the downward spike for the months of April and May. I can understand people flocking to Thailand during the Northern Hemisphere winter / Christmas holiday period (December and January), but I would have though Songkran would be another peak. Obviously ToT needs to put more work promoting Thailand during this festival.

Peter

Interesting statistics there Iamatopo. One thing which struck me from this link was the downward spike for the months of April and May. I can understand people flocking to Thailand during the Northern Hemisphere winter / Christmas holiday period (December and January), but I would have though Songkran would be another peak. Obviously ToT needs to put more work promoting Thailand during this festival.

Peter

That's driven in large part by school schedules and the availability of children to travel with their parents. Other social and economic factors pertain as well.

Interesting statistics there Iamatopo. One thing which struck me from this link was the downward spike for the months of April and May. I can understand people flocking to Thailand during the Northern Hemisphere winter / Christmas holiday period (December and January), but I would have though Songkran would be another peak. Obviously ToT needs to put more work promoting Thailand during this festival.

Peter

That's driven in large part by school schedules and the availability of children to travel with their parents. Other social and economic factors pertain as well.

In 2003. that was driven by SARS.

On April 4th 2003. I was 1 of 7 passengers (and 17 crew) on a 747-400 from Singapore to Bangkok.

Since this is from memory I may be in error but I recall a Phuket paper discovering that the Tourist Authority figures equated to some 4 million+ but the airport statistics evaluated to 2 million+ for the same period. Even allowing for boats, ships etc. the difference was surprising.

Sorry I don't have a citation for this, maybe another member can provide more data.

Regards

Thanks, everyone for your input.

I really didn't look at the stats, just wanted help the OP out. I only had a couple of minutes to look and this is what I found. I am certain you could find a lot more detail.

A tourist goes to thailand six times in one year does this equal six persons?

A tourist passport no.xxxxxxxxx visits six times in a year is this only one person?

How are these statistics collected?