Thailand targets 3 million foreign tourists this year under phased reopening

[Laughing Gravy]

The TAT are really good for one thing only. My daily medicine for laughing.  I guess those 6 million Brits coming this year are out of the equation. 

 

The only way they could reach 3 million is if they remove any quarantine and then they may have a chance. A big may.

[Blumpie]

You go girlfriend!  

Good luck buddy!

[actonion]

Surely one day the locals will see through this "false hope" they keep being given

[clivebaxter]

The way we sometimes get treated here, eg current vaccination, I hope they get no tourists at all, it's what they so richly deserve.

[Daithi85]

1 minute ago, clivebaxter said:

The way we sometimes get treated here, eg current vaccination, I hope they get no tourists at all, it's what they so richly deserve.

Ohh get over your self.another one who feels like he's a victim...

[bikerlou47]

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

If all I have to do is flash my fully vaccinated card at the airport coming, the plane and immigration, I'll come tomorrow.

 

Anything else - me and  nobody else will come

That is all you should have to do with the results of a negative test and just wear a mask where appropriate!

[Paul Henry]

129,000 visitors in third quarter, 28,701 arrivals in Jan- April. No tourists mentioned in these numbers. Are airline crews counted as arrivals?. How many Thais returning from overseas in these numbers?

Typical Thai meaningless data!

[krobert6]

"Thailand targets 3 million foreign tourists"  going to shoot them with all the spare ammo they have purchaces and steal their cash

[richthai]

Interesting calculation.  40M in 2019 spent 1.9 Trillion = B 47,500 per person
20M predicted in 2022 will spend 1.3 Trillion = B 65,000 per person.

Prices are down from 2019 and will take a while to recover.  So, are they expecting tourists to take extra long vacations?

[Dialemco]

Where will these tourists come from?

 

Best to expedite vaccine roll out over entire country. Big problem will be border with Burma which country understand has nil vaccines but many enter Thailand as refugees or for work. Don't believe any significant foreign tourism until entry restrictions lifted except for negative PCR test 72 hours prior to arrival.

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, richthai said:

Interesting calculation.  40M in 2019 spent 1.9 Trillion = B 47,500 per person
20M predicted in 2022 will spend 1.3 Trillion = B 65,000 per person.

Prices are down from 2019 and will take a while to recover.  So, are they expecting tourists to take extra long vacations?

Nah, thats just the new prices including the 14 day mandatory stays in an approved hotel factored in per day

[dlclark97]

Many Thais are being vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine that reportedly is just over 50% effective for COVID 18 and far less effective for some of the new variants.  If 70% of the population is vaccinated with this vaccine that is just over 50% effective you might conclude this amounts to just over 35% of the population being fully vaccinated.  Why would any tourist come under these conditions?  When the whole population is vaccinated with the several more effective vaccines then maybe the tourists will begin to arrive but not anywhere in the numbers of recent past years.  Get rid of the ridiculous 40,000/400,000 nearly useless insurance requirement for some and raise that new arrival fee from 300 baht to 500 baht to cover the expenses of those sick or injured here who are unable or unwilling to pay their bills.  For expats in country add that fee to their annual extensions the same as those arriving.  Announced forecast of the income expected from this new fee would cover all unpaid medical expenses and still allow for the stated maintenance for tourist and other destinations.   

[tandor]

...isn't it nice to have some light-hearted humour thrown in amid all the confusion and gloom that's about.

[jaiyen]

As usual they fail to mention how any tourists can get to Thailand !  Definitely won't be by plane.

 

[MasterBaker]

we can see all bar girls from isaan getting on the buses, motorbikes and heading to Phuket now... quarantine? what quarantine.

[tandor]

3 minutes ago, dlclark97 said:

Many Thais are being vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine that reportedly is just over 50% effective for COVID 18 and far less effective for some of the new variants.  If 70% of the population is vaccinated with this vaccine that is just over 50% effective you might conclude this amounts to just over 35% of the population being fully vaccinated.  Why would any tourist come under these conditions?  When the whole population is vaccinated with the several more effective vaccines then maybe the tourists will begin to arrive but not anywhere in the numbers of recent past years.  Get rid of the ridiculous 40,000/400,000 nearly useless insurance requirement for some and raise that new arrival fee from 300 baht to 500 baht to cover the expenses of those sick or injured here who are unable or unwilling to pay their bills.  For expats in country add that fee to their annual extensions the same as those arriving.  Announced forecast of the income expected from this new fee would cover all unpaid medical expenses and still allow for the stated maintenance for tourist and other destinations.   

...some of your numbers are incorrect!..it is 96% Efficacy, and its CoViD-19.

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Most of the three million arrivals are expected in the final quarter, with spending estimated at between 240 billion baht to 300 billion baht ($7.7 billion to $9.6 billion), Siripakorn Cheawsamoot, deputy governor of the TAT, told Reuters

Here we go... get ready for the constant drivel.

[hotchilli]

7 minutes ago, jaiyen said:

As usual they fail to mention how any tourists can get to Thailand !  Definitely won't be by plane.

 

Or when some attempt to go home they have quarantine regulations because of dirty Thailand.

[Desmondo69]

Visitors from UK need to be aware that Thailand is on there Amber list. And gov has said to not travel. This being the case then insurance companies will not pay out  I'm sure everyone is aware how these companies operate.. They will take your premium all day long,  but when it comes to a claim..... Well!! 

[bkk6060]

Vaccine cert.

Test before you come.

Test here maybe 2 or 3 day quarantine max. until results.

 

What else should they need? 

 

 

[ronaldo0]

16000 a day !! ???????????? 
La la land every day with this lot !

[mikebell]

5 hours ago, Anna Rak said:

Tourism-reliant Thailand expects about three million foreign tourist arrivals

Must be dog-lovers.

[WineOh]

14 hours ago, madmen said:

Phuket will be pushed back to October and October pushed back to January and January pushed back to...... 

The nation of perpetual pushbacks, targets and projections.

[WineOh]

59 minutes ago, actonion said:

Surely one day the locals will see through this "false hope" they keep being given

They love it mate.

False hope is all these people have.

 

I'm surprised the witch doctor isn't a big thing over here like it is in some third world countries. 

[sqwakvfr]

 "Thailand had just 28,701 arrivals in January-April."

 

I was one these arrivals in mid February and I am a returning long term visa holder.  So I do not count in terms of tourism or even a new arrival.  Sometimes aggregate numbers can be misleading.  Of course this never happens in LOS???

[Tracyb]

Chinese tourists coming into Chiang Mai, by the tens of thousands(pre-Covid) prepaid in China for their entire trip.  They spent next to nothing while in Thailand. I guess we call them “penny tourists.”

 

There is no reason to expect any difference when Chiang Mai opens up again to the invading hordes.  Meanwhile, tourist based businesses remain closed, food lines remain long at the giveaway points in the city, and hope remains dim for the future.

 

could it GET any worse?

Edited June 10, 2021 by Tracyb

[RafPinto]

12 hours ago, DaveE13 said:

I think so too. Was hoping visit the girlfriend October can't see it 

Give me her number and if possible her picture. I can do it for you. That's what friends do. In hard times, we step up.

[dallen52]

TAT.

Would you buy a used car from these people?

 

Couldn't lie straight in bed.

[Gandtee]

Together with their Mars programme. A landing expected by the end of the year.

 

[dallen52]

6 minutes ago, WineOh said:

They love it mate.

False hope is all these people have.

 

I'm surprised the witch doctor isn't a big thing over here like it is in some third world countries. 

It is.

Don't know where you live, but parts of Issan the local who do voodoo, says where the house gets located, where the water bore will do good.

Spiritual with a bottle of the local gut rot.

Blesses the land.

Even what days are lucky to start the building.

 

And this is before the monks come a long.

 

Try walking around at night whistling.

Soon get told it summons the spirits and zombies..