March 2020 Tourist Arrivals

[ExpatOilWorker]

Immigration have released arrival statistics for March 2020: 898,485 tourist arrivals (down 75.1% from 2019)

 

By number the biggest arrivals are (Change from March 2019):

 

Laos: 152,379 down 34.0%

Russia: 118,583 down 39.3%

Malaysia: 98,575 down 73.6%

China: 55,047 down 94.4%

Germany: 48,774 down 53.6%

Cambodia: 42,208 down 59.1%

UK: 42,100 down 53.4%

France: 39,385 down 49.5%

Japan: 22,468 down 84.0%

Vietnam: 23,683 down 73.8%

USA: 23,054 down 78.8%

Australia: 18,457 down 66.9%

Sweden: 14,181 down 53.5%

Singapore: 14,145 down 83.7%

India: 12,709 down 91.9%

Indonesia: 11,005 down 82.3%

Myanmar: 10,484 down 71.0%

HK: 9,953 down 86.8%

Philippines: 9,792 down 73.7%

Finland: 9,422 down 40.1%

Holland: 9,003 down 47.3%

Denmark: 8,536 down 50.5%

South Korea: 8,019 down 94.7%

Canada: 7,567 down 74.2%

Poland: 6,178 down 57.7%

Norway: 5,035 down 53.4%

 

 

Raw numbers attached.

 

March Arrivals.xlsx

[petermik]

Depressing figures....it will be a long long time before tourist will be returning in numbers 

[worgeordie]

Are these figures from T.A.T, ?, I was expecting the numbers to be up????

regards Worgeordie

[petermik]

7 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Are these figures from T.A.T, ?, I was expecting the numbers to be up????

regards Worgeordie

T.A.T. is lockdown at the moment geordie.....

[Puchaiyank]

My oh my...this tourist statistic is alarming...many folks making a living servicing tourists may need to go to plan-B to survive...

 

[SteveK]

8 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

My oh my...this tourist statistic is alarming...many folks making a living servicing tourists may need to go to plan-B to survive...

 

What's that? Blowing up ATMs?

[Cake Monster]

If you take off the 200 K + " Tourists " from Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and possibly the 23 K from Vietnam, the figure looks even more bleak. Many of these will be Labourers that are working in Thailand

And probably a more realistic figure of around 650 K Pukka Tourists, but included in that number will be " Fi - Fo " people who transited to other destinations. 

75% down ! realistically nearer to 85 / 90 % down

[SteveK]

2 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

 Many of these will be Labourers that are working in Thailand

 

And day trippers coming over just to visit Makro etc......

[ExpatOilWorker]

49 minutes ago, petermik said:

Depressing figures....it will be a long long time before tourist will be returning in numbers 

Still impressive that about 50% of Europeans still arrived as normal.

April should be interesting,  but you might have to find a stronger word.

[dcsw53]

Put things in perspective.
The arrivals from Laos and Cambodia ( over 200k of total ) are not all HISO's coming on private jets. Their contribution to the economy is the graft they provide at slave wages that other nationalities won't touch.

[ExpatOilWorker]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

Are these figures from T.A.T, ?, I was expecting the numbers to be up????

regards Worgeordie

Only arrivals with tourist visas are counted, hence diplomats, UN staff, non-O/A/B, etc are excluded. 

That said, line 187 "Utopia" listed as an arrival nationality surely leaves some wiggle room for a fudge factor.

[phuketrichard]

Some  points, the laos, malays, burmese and khmer numbers are worthless

as they might drive over the border 1-3x+/month for shopping (or in the case of malays F#@king)

i would assume they are counting not just tourist visas BUT visa exempt stamps

NON L-A visa holders (those Burmese, khmers, laos) would not be counted as they have work permits

 

sad numbers with april 50% less