Virus drains Thailand of 8.5 million visitors

[webfact]

Virus drains Thailand of 8.5 million visitors

By THE NATION

 

 

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has revealed that the number of international visitors arriving in Thailand between January and March fell by 8.54 million, or 35.3 per cent, to 15.67 million, compared to the same period last year.

 

The largest decline was in Chinese visitor numbers, which dropped by 59.4 per cent to around 2.4 million compared to 2019. Visitor numbers from Japan fell by 28 per cent to 1.6 million, while visits from Russia declined by 0.6 per cent to 1.19 million passengers.

 

The top 15 sources of travellers to Thailand were China, Japan, Russia, Singapore, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Taiwan, Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia.

 

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30385614

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-04-08

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[BritManToo]

Surprised there are so many foreigners left.

Do the TaT have anything to do with these figures?

[ExpatOilWorker]

6 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Surprised there are so many foreigners left.

Do the TaT have anything to do with these figures?

January was a pretty normal tourist month, just wait until March number are out in about 10 days time.

[Thailand]

And the rest, wait til the April figures are released.

[johng]

Just now, Thailand said:

And the rest,

And the rest are stuck at immigration offices  trying to submit useless bits of paper !!!!

[daveAustin]

This is figures from countries irrespective of nationality by the looks, including transit points. Looks like they've also included workers/border bouncers from Malaysia, Burma and Cambodia. Makes initial figure look higher? 

[ChipButty]

May will be suicidal 

[tifino]

I'm sure the slingshot posse will be happy...

[BobbyL]

Remember when the Sports and Tourism Minister said it'll all be fine by Songkran? I wonder if any journalists could ask him about that prediction now. 

[johng]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

The top 15 sources of travellers to Thailand were China, Japan, Russia, Singapore, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Taiwan, Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia.

See how  not one (dirty) "Farung"  country is mentioned they seem insignificant to Thai tourism now..

China  number 1 ☹️

[johng]

2 minutes ago, BobbyL said:

I wonder if any journalists could ask him about that prediction now. 

I'm sure it was just an innocent "misunderstanding"

[CNXexpat]

10 minutes ago, johng said:

See how  not one (dirty) "Farung"  country is mentioned they seem insignificant to Thai tourism now..

China  number 1 ☹️

Russia is at place 3. Is it not a farang country? China is since a long time number 1.

[CNXexpat]

All tourists they are still in the country can´t spend much money because everything is closed. 

In January were many of tourists in the country. Normal business.

[smedly]

19 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

January was a pretty normal tourist month, just wait until March number are out in about 10 days time.

I suspect the bulk of the numbers are January 

 

March should be pretty much zero and should continue like that for months to come and if westerners have got the message in recent weeks that one could last at zero for considerably longer 

[johng]

2 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

Russia is at place 3. Is it not a farang country?

Well  kinda inbetwennies ????

[jimmjam]

4 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

Russia is at place 3. Is it not a farang country? China is since a long time number 1.

Russia is mostly part of the Asian continent. 77% to be exact.  Russia is considered Eurasian and Asian.

so no its not a farang country.

[bkk6060]

16 minutes ago, johng said:

See how  not one (dirty) "Farung"  country is mentioned they seem insignificant to Thai tourism now..

China  number 1 ☹️

Why wouldn't they be?  Recently, they are 40% of the tourists who come here.

[Mung]

Waiting for the TAT to announce a projected 96.3% growth by the end of April 

[UbonThani]

May/june down 99%. The 1% are just made up.

[UbonThani]

1 minute ago, Mung said:

Waiting for the TAT to announce a projected 96.3% growth by the end of April 

June 2021 up 1000000% on June 2020

[seeyoujimmy]

They will still reach this year's target,the paperwork is already done.

[holy cow cm]

All hail the Chinese tourists. We don't care they brought the virus because we will blame it on the dirty foreigners. 

 

If they don't watch their racist hatred then the numbers are going to stay lower from the western world not coming.

[CNXexpat]

5 minutes ago, jimmjam said:

Russia is mostly part of the Asian continent. 77% to be exact.  Russia is considered Eurasian and Asian.

so no its not a farang country.

Most people they are coming from Russia are from the European part. The majority of the citizens are living there. And most people from the Asian part would called "farang" in Thailand because they look like farangs.

[DrTuner]

TATsters must be awake 24/7 desperately trying to do a positive spin. Maybe they can do an honest cabbie - but where to find the single remaining tourist. Tough times.

[EricTh]

28 minutes ago, johng said:

See how  not one (dirty) "Farung"  country is mentioned they seem insignificant to Thai tourism now..

China  number 1 ☹️

The only farang country which made it into the top 15 is Russia.

[david555]

28 minutes ago, johng said:

See how  not one (dirty) "Farung"  country is mentioned they seem insignificant to Thai tourism now..

China  number 1 ☹️

Anyone still have doubts they don't like us no more …..? No mention besides Russia of westerners ☹️

[johng]

1 minute ago, EricTh said:

The only farang country which made it into the top 15 is Russia.

Well again  I would say they are "inbetweenies"   as @jimmjam  said 

Quote

Russia is considered Eurasian and Asian.

 

[EricTh]

2 minutes ago, johng said:

Well again  I would say they are "inbetweenies"   as @jimmjam  said 

 

Russia proper is considered white. We are not talking about the far east which aren't really natives to Russia.

[rvaviator]

40 minutes ago, BobbyL said:

Remember when the Sports and Tourism Minister said it'll all be fine by Songkran? I wonder if any journalists could ask him about that prediction now. 

Did he say which year ?

[Swimfan]

unlikely to be any tourists for the next 2 quarters