ExpatOilWorker Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermik Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Depressing figures....it will be a long long time before tourist will be returning in numbers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Are these figures from T.A.T, ?, I was expecting the numbers to be up???? regards Worgeordie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermik Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 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..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puchaiyank Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 My oh my...this tourist statistic is alarming...many folks making a living servicing tourists may need to go to plan-B to survive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cake Monster Posted April 15, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 15, 2020 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 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 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...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpatOilWorker Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcsw53 Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpatOilWorker Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketrichard Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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