webfact Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 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 -- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-07-20 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted July 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 19, 2020 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 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airalee Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soikhaonoiken Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) Hard to believe figures, but we all know how they exaggerate figures to suit themselves,, Edited July 19, 2020 by Soikhaonoiken Spelling mistake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
american2 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TKDfella Posted July 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 20, 2020 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. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 6 hours ago, webfact said: The spokesman warned hotel operators to desist from cheating or inflating the room price. Good luck with that. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun Paul Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 The big question will be what will be the rate of NON-OCCUPANCY and therefore no payment for these booked rooms . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashkale Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Government agents are watching you price gougers they have a "wealth" of experience???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Borrowed money-borrowed time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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