Tourist numbers well on track statistics show

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Tourist numbers well on track statistics show

By The Nation

 

 

A total of 29,465,732 people visited Thailand between January and September this year generating revenue of Bt1.42 trillion, according to data released this week by the Tourism and Sports Ministry. This was up 3.51 per cent over the same period year with the revenue showing a similar increase at 3.45 per cent.

 

The highest numbers of visitors were from China, making up 8,518,031 people, up 1.71 per cent, and generating revenue of Bt426.88 billion. They were followed by Malaysia with 2,960,896, an increase of 5.56 per cent, spending Bt75.62 billion, up 6.69 per cent; India with 1,471,218, up 25.60 per cent, generating Bt62.03 billion, up 31.14 per cent; South Korea with 1,399,440, up 4.87 per cent, generating Bt55.61 billion, up 5.23 per cent and Laos with 1,383,410, up 12.16 per cent, generating Bt39.61 billion, up 12.70 per cent.

 

Tourist numbers from Europe dropped to 4,698,239 people, down 1.83 per cent, generating revenue of Bt324.75 billion, down 2.03 per cent, of which 970,696 people were from Russia, down 2.95 per cent, generating Bt66.37 billion, down 3.94 per cent, the United Kingdom with 719,599, up 0.84 per cent, generating Bt55.66 billion, up 2.20 per cent and Germany, 601,916 people, down 3.69 per cent, generating Bt37.70 billion, down 3.10 per cent.

 

Overall tourists from the Americas rose to 1,159,116 people, up 2.20 per cent, generating revenue of Bt81.91 billion, up 1.84 per cent, with most coming from the US (828,864 people, up 4.72 per cent, generating revenue of Bt58.84 billion, up 5.37 per cent), while tourists from the Middle East region decreased to 541,399 people, down 9.11 per cent, generating revenue of Bt43.31 billon, down 7.83 per cent.

 

In September alone, the number of tourists visiting stood at 2,902,731 people, up 10.11 per cent, generating revenue of Bt139.62 billion, up 8.73 per cent, with China again topping the list with 852,130 people, up 31.56 per cent, generating revenue of Bt45.01 billion, up 31.63 per cent, followed by Malaysia (331,643 people, down 7.56 per cent, revenue Bt8.59 billion, down 8.68 per cent), Laos (161,295 people, up 16.80 per cent, revenue Bt4.91 billion, up 12.64 per cent), India (155,998 people, up 26.90 per cent, revenue Bt7.03 billion, up 30.86 per cent) and Japan (154,514 people, up 9.01 per cent, revenue Bt7.51 billion, up 9.47 per cent).

 

Yuthasak Supasorn, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), expressed satisfaction at the numbers and said he expects the number of tourists by the end of this year to meet the target of 39.8 million people, up approximately 5 per cent from 3.82 million people in the previous year.

 

Meanwhile, TAT Deputy Governor for International Marketing Asia and South Pacific Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya added that TAT is still targeting 11 million visitors from China for 2019 and will continue promoting Thailand to Indian tourists to achieve its target of 2 million.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377735

 

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[stigar]

Another bs from TAT.

[wgdanson]

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

A total of 29,465,732 people

Almost 50% of the Thai population! 

[Cadbury]

 

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

Tourist numbers well on track statistics show

That's a load off. The economy of Thailand has been saved again by the statistics of the Ministry of Tourism and TAT.

Nothing more than fools fooling themselves. 

[KhunKenAP]

On Walking Street last night many Chinese tours. Even one Muslim tour. Nary a Farang face.

[SteveK]

I reckon at least 96.7% of those statistics are made up.

[RichardColeman]

[Saint Nick]

...but of course it is!

The mighty TAT teld me so!

????

[Ventenio]

We ONLY know about farangs.........only.

 

We know the farangs are not coming as much.  we know.  done.

 

the rest....well, we guess, but we have no idea.  we are farang.  we know farang.  lol

[elviajero]

All the entry stats are available on the Immigration website. They come directly from the entries entered into the database every time someone passes through passport control. TAT use these numbers.

[PatOngo]

Since the baht has become one of those expensive, must have items, of course people are flocking here to buy them!

[Just Weird]

47 minutes ago, stigar said:

Another bs from TAT.

What do you base that gem on?

[Just Weird]

33 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

 

That's a load off. The economy of Thailand has been saved again by the statistics of the Ministry of Tourism and TAT.

Nothing more than fools fooling themselves. 

So what statistics do you have to contradict the official figures?

[Just Weird]

30 minutes ago, KhunKenAP said:

On Walking Street last night many Chinese tours. Even one Muslim tour. Nary a Farang face.

"Nary a Farang face".

Yeah, right.

[Just Weird]

32 minutes ago, SteveK said:

I reckon at least 96.7% of those statistics are made up.

Based on what, what makes you "reckon" that?

[PatOngo]

1 minute ago, Just Weird said:

So what statistics do you have to contradict the official figures?

 

58 minutes ago, webfact said:

Yuthasak Supasorn, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), expressed satisfaction at the numbers and said he expects the number of tourists by the end of this year to meet the target of 39.8 million people, up approximately 5 per cent from 3.82 million people in the previous year.

 

You are quite right JW, above is verbatim from the Gov!

[Fex Bluse]

Their FACE is relentless. 

 

Full marks for bravery.

[DrTuner]

Easy to get the figures up, just subsidize low cost flights from DMK to outside Thailand. Every one that comes in from swampy and continues from DMK is counted as a "tourist". Does sod all for revenue but hey, it's the headcount that matters.

[Angry Dragon]

4 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Based on what, what makes you "reckon" that?

I reckon you understand their reasons for hoping that these stats are wrong.  Here's a gross oversimplification of their simple thinking:

 

Weak tourism stats = weak economy = weaker Baht around the corner (yay!)

Strong tourism stats = strong economy = strong Baht (boo!)

[DrTuner]

17 minutes ago, elviajero said:

All the entry stats are available on the Immigration website. They come directly from the entries entered into the database every time someone passes through passport control. TAT use these numbers.

Yes, from here: https://www.immigration.go.th/immigration_stats . They filter out the entry classes to TR and others.

 

The revenue per head - unknown source but I've previously guessed the only place where they know the nationality is at King Power. Multiply by heads. Obviously, nada to do with actual expenditure, but hey, stats.

[elviajero]

3 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Yes, from here: https://www.immigration.go.th/immigration_stats . They filter out the entry classes to TR and others.

Correct. You can download reports that breakdown all visa types/classes.

 

3 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

The revenue per head - unknown source but I've previously guessed the only place where they know the nationality is at King Power. Multiply by heads. Obviously, nada to do with actual expenditure, but hey, stats.

I agree. All countries quote revenue based on the numbers of visitors, but I've no idea how they determine the revenue per head. 

[Just Weird]

19 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

We ONLY know about farangs.........only.

 

We know the farangs are not coming as much.  we know.  done.

 

the rest....well, we guess, but we have no idea.  we are farang.  we know farang.  lol

"We ONLY know about farangs.........only.""

Really? How about the content of the OP?  Now you know about China, Malaysia, Laos, India, South Korea and Japan.... 

"The highest numbers of visitors were from China, making up 8,518,031 people, up 1.71 per cent, and generating revenue of Bt426.88 billion. They were followed by Malaysia with 2,960,896, an increase of 5.56 per cent, spending Bt75.62 billion, up 6.69 per cent; India with 1,471,218, up 25.60 per cent, generating Bt62.03 billion, up 31.14 per cent; South Korea with 1,399,440, up 4.87 per cent, generating Bt55.61 billion, up 5.23 per cent and Laos with 1,383,410, up 12.16 per cent, generating Bt39.61 billion, up 12.70 per cent and Japan (154,514 people, up 9.01 per cent, revenue Bt7.51 billion, up 9.47 per cent)." 

 

"We know the farangs are not coming as much.  we know.  done".

The OP didn't dispute that, it said those figures were down around (a massive!) 2%.

 

"the rest....well, we guess, but we have no idea".

Well, in the absence of any other statistics that are not imagined in Thaivisa posters' minds and then ranted out here, now you do have an idea.

 

[Just Weird]

25 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

The revenue per head - unknown source but I've previously guessed the only place where they know the nationality is at King Power. Multiply by heads. Obviously, nada to do with actual expenditure, but hey, stats.

"Obviously, nada to do with actual expenditure, but hey, stats".

Obviously just uninformed guesswork by you, so, hey, "nada" to do with actual stats.

[DrTuner]

12 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

"Obviously, nada to do with actual expenditure, but hey, stats".

Obviously just uninformed guesswork by you, so, hey, "nada" to do with actual stats.

Ah great, finally a source of authoritive data, you must know how they get the extediture per head. So where does it come from?

[SmartyMarty]

but if the hotels are all just half full, where are all these tourists staying?

[CHdiver]

Clearly fake news, at least readers of TVF know that they send most Tourists back home, before they can enter the LOS.

[Yinn]

1 hour ago, elviajero said:

All the entry stats are available on the Immigration website. They come directly from the entries entered into the database every time someone passes through passport control. TAT use these numbers.

Yes, correct. Tourism up again. Good news for Thailand, people around world love come thailand, the thai smile, thai food, good weather, shopping, tour,  love it. 

Up,up,up! 

 

But, lot of TVF members disagree. They have someone at the airport count. They know, sure. 

They never give there number. But down, down, down. 

[Just Weird]

12 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

25 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

"Obviously, nada to do with actual expenditure, but hey, stats".

Obviously just uninformed guesswork by you, so, hey, "nada" to do with actual stats.

Ah great, finally a source of authoritive data, you must know how they get the extediture per head. So where does it come from?

Why "must I know that", did I say that I knew?   Could I guess if I wanted to just like you did?   You're the one who seemed to be suggesting that your guesswork had some credibility.

[Yinn]

1 hour ago, Cadbury said:

 

That's a load off. The economy of Thailand has been saved again by the statistics of the Ministry of Tourism and TAT.

Nothing more than fools fooling themselves. 

What you statistic? 

How many? 

 

Ps. How you know? 

[Just Weird]

7 minutes ago, CHdiver said:

Clearly fake news, at least readers of TVF know that they send most Tourists back home, before they can enter the LOS.

"...readers of TVF know that they send most Tourists back home..."

Yes, six confirmed cases, or thereabouts, this year, so far!