Thailand welcomes 39th million tourist

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - At Suvarnabhumi Airport in Samut Prakan province, the Tourism and Sports Minister, Pipat Ratchakitprakan, welcomed the 39th million tourist for 2019. The person is Anna Pavlovskaya, a 44-year-old Russian who has visited Thailand twice. Mrs. Pavlovskaya said she plans to take a vacation with her family in Phuket province. She was rewarded with the "Luckiest Visitor" shirt, a certificate, a five-night voucher at eligible four to five-star hotels in Thailand and two round-trip tickets for flights with Thai Airways International (THAI).

 

The Tourism and Sports Minister said his ministry and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) look forward to welcoming more tourists. Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, instructed all sectors to be good hosts to foreign visitors and create a positive impression, so that they will return to Thailand again.

 

The Tourism and Sports Minister said the total number of international tourists is likely to hit 39.8 million by the end of this year because Thailand welcomes 140,000 visitors per day.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2019-12-27

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Philippines anyone?

1 minute ago, cyril sneer said:

Philippines anyone?

i'm in...or anywhere else....

Strange, these milestone tourists are invariably women, and never, ever middle aged or elderly white men.

25 minutes ago, vadid said:

Strange, these milestone tourists are invariably women, and never, ever middle aged or elderly white men.

Every time.

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

She was rewarded with the "Luckiest Visitor" shirt, a certificate, a five-night voucher at eligible four to five-star hotels in Thailand and two round-trip tickets for flights with Thai Airways International (THAI).

Plus a visit to Immigration Detention Center and deportation for having visited twice.

 

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, instructed all sectors to be good hosts to foreign visitors and create a positive impression, so that they will return to Thailand again.

Really? It sure does not look like that to me.

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Edited December 27, 20196 yr by SEAsia Traveler

Why suddenly make it a round figure? Just a week ago it seemed perfectly fine to make a lot of fanfare about the 38.26 millionth arrival.

Besides, only on December 11 it was reported that arrivals had reached 32.5 million. Provided that both total arrival figures are correct, that would mean an increase of a whopping 6.5 million new arrivals over the past 16 days, or an average of 382,352 PER DAY. How on earth does Thailand's woefully understaffed immigration department have the capacity to even process half of that? They already seem to struggle when two Boeing-747 land back to back. I just continue to believe that all these figures are deliberately doctored.

 

Edited December 27, 20196 yr by Misterwhisper

She was rewarded with the "Luckiest Visitor" shirt, a certificate, a five-night voucher at eligible four to five-star hotels in Thailand and two round-trip tickets for flights with Thai Airways International (THAI).
 

Pretty good prizes. Wouldn’t mind that at all although I would just burn the flights portion. 

4 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Why suddenly make it a round figure? Just a week ago it seemed perfectly fine to make a lot of fanfare about the 38.26 millionth arrival.

Besides, only on December 11 it was reported that arrivals had reached 32.5 million. Provided that both total arrival figures are correct, that would mean an increase of a whopping 6.5 million new arrivals over the past 16 days, or an average of 382,352 PER DAY. How on earth does Thailand's woefully understaffed immigration department have the capacity to even process half of that? They already seem to struggle when two Boeing-747 land back to back. I just continue to believe that all these figures are deliberately doctored.

 

I wasn’t going to bother but what the heck. The Dec 11 report (32.51 mio) was arrivals till 31st Oct. 

Are they still counting the In Transit passengers?

 

9 hours ago, vadid said:

Strange, these milestone tourists are invariably women, and never, ever middle aged or elderly white men.

Thats a  woman?

Well this will make all the empty shops, business owners with no customers, empty hotels absolutely ecstatic as the economy booms back to the good old days. LOL. 

Did she get the price before or after the airport interrogation about for what purpose she came again to Thailand?

I remember del boy winning the  supermarket one in  only fools and horses.all about the robbery and set up.he come out smelling of roses.maybe this is the same I don,t know

They are going to have her stuffed and put in a glass vitrine to hang up at the airport.

11 hours ago, vadid said:

Strange, these milestone tourists are invariably women, and never, ever middle aged or elderly white men.

Exactly. I also wonder why the milestone visitor is always at Swampy. Why not someone crossing at say, Trat, Klong Yai, or Hat Lek......????

Amazing that these big numbers always happen at the airport (to targeted countries) and not  some Cambodian or Myanmar crossing in

It would look good like a lesbian Thais, certainly not a Russian one

Edited December 28, 20196 yr by ICELANDMAN

One more “babuska”

6 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

I wasn’t going to bother but what the heck. The Dec 11 report (32.51 mio) was arrivals till 31st Oct. 

 

11 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Why suddenly make it a round figure? Just a week ago it seemed perfectly fine to make a lot of fanfare about the 38.26 millionth arrival.

Besides, only on December 11 it was reported that arrivals had reached 32.5 million. Provided that both total arrival figures are correct, that would mean an increase of a whopping 6.5 million new arrivals over the past 16 days, or an average of 382,352 PER DAY. How on earth does Thailand's woefully understaffed immigration department have the capacity to even process half of that? They already seem to struggle when two Boeing-747 land back to back. I just continue to believe that all these figures are deliberately doctored.

 

 

Even if it is from Oct 31st to now it still means a tourist arrival figure of around 114.035 people per day or 4,750 people per hour (24 hours per day) - that seems a tad high to me ????

15 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

Philippines anyone?

Im on my way..

WOW!!! Exciting news - Personally Ive been out of Thailand for the last 8 months - I cant WAIT to get back mid January and see the new happy throng of excited tourists at the world class resorts in Pattaya, Hua Hin and Bangkoks special atmosphere that Ive been reading about on TV, all enjoying the safety and fun of their holiday destination - the streets, bars, shopping centres and tourist spots must be packed - it WILL be fun to be back!!????????

Edited December 28, 20196 yr by bizboi

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 who has visited Thailand twice.

The Minister obviously didn't realise she had been let in by mistake.

Edited December 28, 20196 yr by mokwit

also strange but week before that it was target well down from expected forecaster 

7 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

I wasn’t going to bother but what the heck. The Dec 11 report (32.51 mio) was arrivals till 31st Oct. 

You're right. I missed that. My mistake. So that makes 47 days, or 138,299 average arrivals per day. I still think it's an impossible number. It would be equivalent to 307 FULLY LOADED Boeing-747's having touched down every single day since October 31 -- and mind you, the vast majority of arriving passenger planes is a lot smaller. In my opinion, TAT (and immigration) count pretty much every foreign person crossing the border as a tourist: grocery shoppers from Laos; Malaysian blokes coming to Betong for a quick <deleted>; illegally working expats returning from their regular "visa hops" every 30 days; and even me (having been on 12 business trips abroad this year, I am quite sure I was registered as "12 new arrivals"). The sheer fact that they proudly announced the 38.26 millionth arrival (which is a really odd number) tells me that something isn't kosher.   

13 hours ago, vadid said:

Strange, these milestone tourists are invariably women, and never, ever middle aged or elderly white men.

 

Middle aged or elderly white men no longer come to Thailand, do they? ????

they have to be counting people in transit, because it's a ghost town here. When I went to Sukothai the other day it was a ghost town there and when I was in Chiang Mai last week it sure felt dead as well.

 

 

13 hours ago, vadid said:

Strange, these milestone tourists are invariably women, and never, ever middle aged or elderly white men.

So what?

59 minutes ago, racket said:

Im on my way..

not far behind!