Thailand to gain 31,000 new hotel rooms

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

The TOPHOTELPROJECTS construction database reveals that Thailand’s hotel pipeline is looking promising, with established travel destinations set to see the most rapid growth.

 

In the next few years, 126 hotels with 31,053 keys are due to open across Thailand, our research team reports. We take a closer look at these upcoming launches.

 

Thailand’s hotel openings by date

 

Despite the ongoing Covid-related travel restrictions facing many international tourists, Thailand’s hotel sector seems to have high hopes for the future. In the second half of 2021 alone, 32 properties with 2,400 rooms are scheduled to go live across the country.

 

Another 27 projects with 6,977 rooms are in the works for 2022, while 22 schemes with 5,239 keys have been pencilled in for 2023. Meanwhile, 45 schemes and 12,437 rooms are already on the cards for 2024 and beyond.

 

Of Thailand’s 126 new hotels, 55 will be in the five-star luxury segment, while the remaining 71 will be in the four-star category.

 

Full story: https://tophotel.news/country-overview-thailand-to-gain-31000-new-hotel-rooms-infographic/

 

-- Top Hotel News 22 Aug 21

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

More Hospitels? Possibly or not?

[RotBenz8888]

6 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

126 new hotels

While many of the "old" ones need to be demolished. 

[Mickeymaus]

Not one word about new short time hotels. 

[Kadilo]

Some pretty big projects there showing continued confidence that tourists will return once things resume to normal. 

[KannikaP]

27 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

126 hotels with 31,053 keys

If me & the Mrs are staying, do we get TWO keys?

 

And that is an AVERAGE of 246 keys? per hotel.    Really?

Edited August 22, 2021 by KannikaP

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just what many places need...........even  more tourism, really mass  tourism should be something heavily taxed, cant keep  up this forever expanding.

[bkkcanuck8]

44 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

If me & the Mrs are staying, do we get TWO keys?

 

And that is an AVERAGE of 246 keys? per hotel.    Really?

All the locations highlighted in the map were tourist areas.  I suspect this is tracking the major hotel chains / hotel chain franchisees that build the big hotels -- not your regional ones that create the small boutique hotels.   The one that use to be close to where I lived (in Canada), Chelsea hotel was 26 floors 1500+ rooms.  So lets say in an average 12 floor hotel you might have 500 rooms.

[Gold Star]

As Thailand is one of the rare few countries in the world that accepts and thinks Sinovac is a vaccine, the hordes of Chinese will have few other places they can go other than coming here. 

Smart move on the Chinese part.

Mandarin lessons may be as necessary as your vaccine card to work in the tourist industry.

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, Kadilo said:

Some pretty big projects there showing continued confidence that tourists will return once things resume to normal. 

Yet the Hotels like Marriot, Aetas, SO Bangkok, and a few other large ones have been shut now here in Bangkok for most of 2020, and this year as well.  Nothing like an empty hotel with hundred's of rooms, restaurants and all staff laid off.  Why build new ones, or why build new condos, the answer is they either have money to burn in order to take a write-off or they really expect SE Asia and Thailand to grow in tourism more than it did before.  I think it will take many, many years to recover, and these locations will sit unused or still un-opened.

Edited August 22, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[Denim]

These new hotels will need appropriate names . i suggest the following might fit :

 

The Tumbleweed

The Flyblown Boutique hotel

M.T. SeaView Resort

The Wooden Spoon

Mongers Retreat

 

 

etc etc

[HeijoshinCool]

.

Thailand to gain 31,000 new hotel rooms

 

Otherwise known as money laundering....

[Scrotobike]

Needed like an extra bum hole.

[mfd101]

Optimism: necessary for survival.

 

Excessive optimism: sign of incompetence.

[bkkcanuck8]

30 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yet the Hotels like Marriot, Aetas, SO Bangkok, and a few other large ones have been shut now here in Bangkok for most of 2020, and this year as well.  Nothing like an empty hotel with hundred's of rooms, restaurants and all staff laid off.  Why build new ones, or why build new condos, the answer is they either have money to burn in order to take a write-off or they really expect SE Asia and Thailand to grow in tourism more than it did before.  I think it will take many, many years to recover, and these locations will sit unused or still un-opened.

I know when I did long-stay at Mayfair, Bangkok - Marriott Executive Apartments (Mayfair on Langsuan) -- the hotel was Marriott but was not owned by Marriott.  It was owned by Thais (land owned by Thai, building owned by Thai) but was basically a Marriott franchisee.  I have no idea if this is done by region or specific building (i.e. one building different franchisee in Bangkok than another)... but I could see it being a bunch of different developers/franchisee investors and not the Hotel chain itself (I suspect the Hotel chain will end up making money regardless of whether a hotel is viable). 

[bkk6060]

Great.  That should be enough rooms for all the tourists who come next year.

[bkkcanuck8]

2 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Great.  That should be enough rooms for all the tourists who come next year.

By my estimates ... maybe a floor per tourist.

[bkk6060]

58 minutes ago, Gold Star said:

As Thailand is one of the rare few countries in the world that accepts and thinks Sinovac is a vaccine, the hordes of Chinese will have few other places they can go other than coming here. 

Smart move on the Chinese part.

Mandarin lessons may be as necessary as your vaccine card to work in the tourist industry.

It certainly is not the best, but your post is false.

 

https://visaguide.world/news/45-world-countries-recognise-chinese-sinovac-vaccine-for-travel-amid-covid-19/

[ezzra]

And as soon as they finished being built, a for sale or rent signs will go on all of them... why build if you can pick many hotels that have shut down for a fraction cost of a new hotel and put a for sale and for rent signs on them...

[brucegoniners]

Great! 31,000 more empty hotel rooms.

[Thujone]

2 hours ago, Denim said:

 

 

Edited August 22, 2021 by Thujone

[Misterwhisper]

Very commendable.

 

More hotel rooms is exactly what this country URGENTLY needs right now.

[In Full Agreement]

3 hours ago, Mickeymaus said:

Not one word about new short time hotels. 

 

That segment of life in Thailand may be many many years off in the future.

 

[Pedrogaz]

Some people gonna lose a lot of money.

[Mickeymaus]

3 minutes ago, In Full Agreement said:

 

That segment of life in Thailand may be many many years off in the future.

 

I don't think so. I guess that the sex tourists will be the first ones that will come back. They must be so horny in the meantime... ????

[In Full Agreement]

1 minute ago, Mickeymaus said:

I don't think so. I guess that the sex tourists will be the first ones that will come back. They must be so horny in the meantime... ????

 

I think you missed my point.

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, Gold Star said:

As Thailand is one of the rare few countries in the world that accepts and thinks Sinovac is a vaccine, the hordes of Chinese will have few other places they can go other than coming here. 

Smart move on the Chinese part.

Mandarin lessons may be as necessary as your vaccine card to work in the tourist industry.

I suspect that this is part of a very specific "re-orientation" of the tourist business. In fact probably better described as a " new" tourist industry, aimed exclusively at the Chinese market. Thailand will become a Chinese holiday centre. The business to be controlled by the "usual suspects" who previously had little or no interest in tourism.

[KhunBENQ]

Think big, 100 billion Baht plan (3.2 billion USD).

And papa has real big money.

If this tsunami comes over Pattaya you will hardly recognize it.

Already spent some peanuts (550 million Baht) for a hotel/plot on Jomtien beach.

The new MICE center on the east coast.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rgluckman/2021/07/08/thai-real-estate-giant-bets-big-on-tourism-rebound-with-32-billion-growth-plan/?sh=3957778c3ecd

 

Edited August 22, 2021 by KhunBENQ

[Skeptic7]

For whom???

[itsari]

Can one presume that the hotels were planned before the pandemic ?