17 hours ago, ICELANDMAN said:

Better not to leave the house now too many tourists around. 

House , Hell, don't  leave the airport. All the Thailand you'd want  is right there. 

They are all in Roiet or Buri ram ....hehe

39 million next week? Gonna be a busy week!

So says man with magic wand and a lucky rabbits foot !! ????????????

Do they ever give up ?? Tolkien and j.k Rowling would have trouble dreaming up such tales on a daily basis !!

Deluded people counting every person using Bkk as a transition to get on their next plane by walking through the airport to next check in !

17 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

why do all the tourist hotspots remain dead ????

Chinese tours do not go to drink in bars, Indians not many.

What Chinese love is gambling.

There are boder casinos, also many venues that are underground.

I have heard many Thai getting into big financial problems at these venues lately.

My friend who has a bar in Koh Samui is going to close it after 15 years ,he says never been so dead there.

Others I know In Hua Hin are shutting down as well.

Pattaya and Phuket numbers are down 30% +.

people are  saying it is dead.

 

If the Chinese Indian numbers are up it will not help LOS, it will only help Chinese Thai venues.

It will help border casinos and underground venues line their pockets.

When I came through Suvanrapom a few weeks back their were thousands of Chinese, all screaming and marching ,holding flags--- so the numbers may be real and the government dos not give a toss about bars closing down and expats leaving.

Edited December 21, 20196 yr by kiwikeith

16 hours ago, Traubert said:

The Chinese always went to Vietnam. They share a 786 mile border. Those in border areas have trade passes for daily crossings. No mention of fiddled figures there of course. Market traders get marked down as entries anyway.

 

Most Chinese by the way means more than 700m. Only 130m hold passports/trade passes.

 

Chinese tourists by destination:

 

The top 10 destinations for Chinese tourists

1. Hong Kong
2. Macau
3. Taiwan
4. Thailand
5. Japan
6. Vietnam
7. South Korea
8. Singapore 
9. USA
10. Italy

You can write off the first three as domestic tourism.

1. Hong Kong  For go money out China

2. Macau        For lost money to Casino

3. Taiwan       For business with families 

4. Thailand     For take mistake fly, everyone will go Vietnam

 

 

Lol this is like the Thai Road count only if your die at the accident doesn’t count if your in the ambulance or hospital get real who believes this TIT

17 hours ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

Maybe TAT can tell us where all of these "tourists" are going. Pattaya is 40% down, Phuket and Chiang Mai 30-35% down, so obviously not there. With the all powerful super TM30 they must be able to tell us where are the new tourist hot spots. 

Koh Samui is also down, which means that all the main Resort destinations are down.  Is TAT stacking them all up at the Airport?

i hope next 2 year not have tourist only zero peoples, and all foreigns end busines 1-2 year in thailand, then immigratino understand how important tourism foreigns and expats money have at thailand, then end idiot monkeyland immigration visa law and make new normal human law and no money fee idiot systems and insurance idiot systems, all other country no have thats idiot monkeyland stupid thai <deleted> system.

30 million of them were just passing through, waiting for connecting flights to somewhere else ????

Yeah it was packed last night, so much so that some bars in Cowboy didn't bother opening untill half past eight........  Packed out ?    My rear end ...........the place is dead........ 

I flew into Bangkok from Saigon earlier this week. There were dozens of empty seats on the Vietnam Airlines noon hour flight. Near the end of the flight, I stood up and tried to count the empties. More than 50 empties on a 195-seat Airbus 321. I did this route quite often the last seven years and have never seen a Vietnam to Thailand flight with so few occupied seats.

 

Whereas my BKK-to-SGN flight was full.

 

Dream on, TAT.

Edited December 21, 20196 yr by Kaoboi Bebobp
Additional info

All your replies seem correct. These numbers seem to be a load of B. S. But what really gets me is how they managed to choose who exactly was the 39 millionth passenger to arrive? With multiple planes always arriving and multiple immigration booths managing visas for entry. This seems impossible to be accurate. 

What probably happened was they chose an Indian because they are trying to promote Thailand more to the Indians because their tourists spend alot. 

Lie and fake news... and more lies... shame on news reporter amd media..

These are the ATTA stats for 2019, even though the link title says otherwise:

 

http://www.atta.or.th/statistics-international-tourists-arriving-in-thailand-as-of-29-february-2016/

13 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

Yeah it was packed last night, so much so that some bars in Cowboy didn't bother opening untill half past eight........  Packed out ?    My rear end ...........the place is dead........

When will some members understand that the huge majority of tourists do not frequent beer bars and may at best just have a look at a Red Zone such as Walking Street ? 

yes one second Numbers are up 

Next Thailand worried numbers are down

No set to hit 39 Million 

what is it really 

1 minute ago, rossco1 said:

yes one second Numbers are up 

Next Thailand worried numbers are down

No set to hit 39 Million 

what is it really 

Ask the fortune teller

This has to be a huge disastrous hit on some of the famous top experts in Thai affairs. Gotta brace oneself for a monstrous backlash, which we could safely predict would extend to more than a couple of thousand posts/pages here on TVF which might go on for months!

19 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

How many of these so called 38 million tourists are from western countries?

Just now, possum1931 said:

How many of these so called 38 million tourists are from western countries?

Would it matter?

3 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

How many of these so called 38 million tourists are from western countries?

Why be confused? It is a simple enough question.

18 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

why do all the tourist hotspots remain dead ????

One mans hotspot might not interest the rest...

'the highest number in many years...'

 

The powers-that-be in the tourism industry are some of the most delusional gits in Thai officialdom.

11 minutes ago, Pattaya46 said:

When will some members understand that the huge majority of tourists do not frequent beer bars and may at best just have a look at a Red Zone such as Walking Street ? 

The majority of members here are expats and not tourists. They equate tourist activities to their own. Next week, I will have 6 adults and 2 kids from a neighbouring Asean country visiting and staying over the New Year. They will be staying in a private villa. They will not be making a single visit to any bars even though most of them drink. Instead they will be chilling at home drinking G&T’s, whiskey, wine and Prosecco at various times of the day. 

They will be pumping a fair amount of money into the economy but they are sadly not westerners. I’m sure there are thousands of such tourists. It’s just that they are not visible to the typical poster on TVF. 

18 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

So each time a person arrives they are counted as a tourist, regardless if it's a layover or an expat returning "home" ?

 

Where are all the tourists, everyone hotel is complaining, bars are empty, please explain, but the figures don't lie.

If they arrive on a tourist visa or visa exempt, why shouldnt they be considered tourists?

31 minutes ago, saengd said:

These are the ATTA stats for 2019, even though the link title says otherwise:

 

http://www.atta.or.th/statistics-international-tourists-arriving-in-thailand-as-of-29-february-2016/

 

these numbers are a hell of a lot lower than 39M (and more believable):

 

Some news say Thailand is empty, some news say many tourists, which one is fake news?

3 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

 

these numbers are a hell of a lot lower than 39M (and more believable):

 

Only two airports though!

18 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

Well Nakorn Backofbeyond must be busting at the seams to accommodate all these folks LOL

 

Somtam and fried bug sales are going through the roof.

 

Milk and honey for all!

They have to Spruik whatever BS to not look foolish & keep their jobs!