Over 3.6 million hotel rooms booked under tourism stimulus campaign

By The Nation

 

 

The number of hotel room bookings under the "Rao Pai Tiew Gun" (Let’s travel together) campaign has reached 3.6 million as of Sunday.

 

Traisuree Taisaranakul, the deputy government spokeswoman, said on Sunday that travellers are still booking hotels in the major tourism cities, most of them in the western and eastern regions.

 

People mostly booked hotels near the seaside for mostly one-night stays. For long-period travel, people mostly booked hotels in the southern provinces, especially Krabi, for an average of two nights.

 

She added that the booking process that opened on Saturday was going well and people would start travelling from July 24 as the long holiday period would be from July 25-29.

 

The Rao Pai Tiew Gun campaign is one of the government's tourism stimulus measures, providing 40 per cent discount per night (but not exceeding five nights) to 5 million travellers.

 

The spokesman warned hotel operators to desist from cheating or inflating the room price. There are government agents scanning and comparing the prices. Any hotel found to be cheating will be disqualified immediately, the spokeswoman said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30391557

 

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35 minutes ago, webfact said:

The spokesman warned hotel operators to desist from cheating or inflating the room price. There are government agents scanning and comparing the prices.

Get the feeling the hotels will be empty but the rooms fully booked

 

How many hotel rooms are in the country?  
 

A study by Krungsri, taking information from the Department of Tourism showed that as of 2016 there were 685,000 rooms nationwide.  Construction over the last 4 years has hotels popping up like mushrooms due to the influx of Chinese tourists.  Could they have hit the million mark by now?

 

https://www.krungsri.com/bank/getmedia/5de62d20-1706-48c1-9573-65359fdbc76c/IO_Hotel_2017_EN.aspx

 

what happens when the stimulus ends?  I suspect that hotels (and many other industries/economic sectors) are going to have to embrace the New Normal... in this case, lower prices.  Much lower.  Pulling demand forward is a nice bandaid but doesn’t address the root of the problem.  
 

Supply...meet demand.

 

 

Hard to believe figures, but we all know how they exaggerate figures to suit themselves,, 

Edited July 19, 20205 yr by Soikhaonoiken
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Over what time period for bookings?  Over what days per week?  What percentage does this represent of all available hotel,resort and guest houses in the country?  

We are already told that these booked rooms are discounted.

If most of this is domestic then although some jobs might be saved the economy will remain roughly the same. Thailand remains dependant upon foreign tourist spending their money not Thai people spending their money...many of which don't have it anyway.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The spokesman warned hotel operators to desist from cheating or inflating the room price.

Good luck with that.

The big question will be what will be the rate of NON-OCCUPANCY and therefore no payment for these booked rooms . 

Say there are a Million hotel rooms in Thailand- operating at 30%  average capacity, this is just two weeks booking during normal times, what happens to the other 14 weeks...

Government agents are watching you price gougers they have a "wealth" of experience???? 

Borrowed money-borrowed time