India shows promise as continued major visitor source market for Thailand

[snoop1130]

 

Bangkok, 08 September, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) would like to report that Thailand is one of the top three destinations Indians say they want to visit abroad, according to surveys on Indian travel needs.

 

The most recent survey conducted by Thomas Cook in June 2021. on 4,000 people discovered that 46% of them wanted to travel abroad. Alongside Thailand, the top three destinations they want to visit are Dubai/Abu Dhabi and the Maldives. An earlier survey in April 2021. by InterMiles on 11,500 Indians found that 65% of respondents planned a trip overseas.

 

TAT Governor, Mr. Yuthasak Supasorn, said “Thailand enjoyed status as a very popular destination for Indian travellers before the pandemic, and it is extremely encouraging to see this appeal looks likely to continue once we reopen to the Indian market. In the meantime, one of the priorities for TAT in India is ensuring travellers there of the various health and safety measures; such as, the SHA standards, that have been employed by Thailand for all visitors.”

 

Looking ahead, TAT is working with two possible scenarios on the inbound Indian market based on seat capacity and estimated tourist arrivals from 1 October-31 December, 2021 (without quarantine).

 

The first of these scenarios envisions commercial flights being resumed from the major cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore, which would result in 24,500 Indians visiting Thailand during the 14-week period and generating income of 1.09 billion Baht.

 

The second scenario envisions weekly charter flights to Thailand from New Delhi and Mumbai in place of commercial flights, resulting in 4,200 Indians visiting and generating income of 187.7 million Baht.

 

The revenue estimation is based on 2019 records that Indian travellers spent on average 7 days on holidays with a trip expenditure of 44,688 Baht per person.

 

Pent-up demand

Meanwhile, the most recent survey conducted by the TAT Mumbai and New Delhi Offices on 300 travel agents across India found that 94% confirmed pent-up demand from Indian travellers to Thailand once the country reopens to tourism. Some 80% said Indian travellers spent on average 7 days on holidays, and placed priorities on safety and health (33%), tourism activities (25%), and the rest on attractive prices.

 

However, the current pilot reopening programmes; such as, the Phuket Sandbox and Samui Plus, were cited as unattractive to Indian travellers, due in part to their short holiday period (7 days).

 

Market outlook for 2022

Depending on whether Thailand will reopen to Indian travellers in the last quarter of this year, the TAT Mumbai and New Delhi Offices continue to place focus on the first movers, including golf, wedding, and millennials.

 

Phuket remains the top destinations for Indian weddings, followed by Hua Hin, Rayong, and Samui. An Indian wedding, known for their extravaganza feast, cost on average 5-6 million Baht with 200-300 participants.

 

Indian market overview pre-pandemic

 

All segments

In 2019, a total of 1,961,069 Indians travelled to Thailand, generating tourism income of just over 80 million Baht. In term of arrivals, this represented a growth of 25.48%, and in income a growth of 19.96%. At this time, there were over 300 weekly flights to Thailand from India, while airlines GoAir and IndiGo also opened direct links to Phuket resulting in more Indian tourists visiting there.

 

Results from a TAT survey on the Indian market for 2019 showed that 94% of travel agents foresaw a demand for travel to Thailand. Escorted groups constitute the largest type of traveller who would visit Thailand in 2021/2022 at 35%, followed by small groups at 30%, couples and honeymooners at 20%, and families with children at 15%.

 

The average length of stay was less than 7 days (80% of survey respondents), between 7 and 14 days (15%), and 30 days or more (5%). The factors considered in travelling to Thailand were health, hygiene and safety (33% of respondents), connectivity (25%), competitive pricing (17%), and others (25%).

 

From the survey, in terms of considering market segments to be promoted, it was deducted this should be mid-market at 34%, luxury at 27%, budget at 24%, and all segments at 15%.

 

Wedding market segment

Another TAT survey was conducted on the Indian wedding market on leading destination wedding planners from Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Surat, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Vadodara, Goa, and Chennai. It showed that Phuket and Krabi were the destinations most considered for a wedding (at 72.41%), followed next by Hua Hin and Rayong (65.52%), Samui (43.1%), Bangkok (25.86%), Pattaya (22.41%), and others (5.17%).

 

The time period most considered for a wedding in Thailand was January-June 2022, and July-December 2022 (both at 55.17%), followed by November-December 2021, (34.48%) and September-October 2021 (8.62%).

 

In terms of the wedding size and the associated room requirements, the largest portion was for 50-100 rooms (at 51.72%), followed by 101-150 rooms (43.1%), above 150 rooms (15.52%), and less than 50 rooms (6.9%).

 

Length of stay came in at 57% for 3 days/2 nights, 40% for 4 days/3 nights, and 3% for more than 4 days (for over 50 guests).

 

Source: https://www.tatnews.org/2021/09/india-shows-promise-as-continued-major-visitor-source-market-for-thailand/

[ThailandRyan]

Oh such a warm and fuzzy feel good story.

16 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The average length of stay was less than 7 days (80% of survey respondents), between 7 and 14 days (15%), and 30 days or more (5%). The factors considered in travelling to Thailand were health, hygiene and safety (33% of respondents), connectivity (25%), competitive pricing (17%), and others (25%).

Not many staying more than a week, and one wonders what kind of coin they would spend while here.

 

The survey they refer to for the large majority of those wanting to visit seems to have come from 2019.  I wonder now, what kind of funds these same people who expressed interest back then have now and if they would still come now and not just a statement of "I would like to visit Thailand" to round out the facts for this as I said feel good story.

16 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Depending on whether Thailand will reopen to Indian travellers in the last quarter of this year, the TAT Mumbai and New Delhi Offices continue to place focus on the first movers, including golf, wedding, and millennials.

The market outlook for 2022, lets hope that TAT has not been reading the tea leaves again and maybe if lucky will get half of the numbers they did in 2019

 

16 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

In 2019, a total of 1,961,069 Indians travelled to Thailand, generating tourism income of just over 80 million Baht

Looking at the money each tourist spent around 47k baht during their stay.....not a bucket load of money there.

Edited September 8, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[RotBenz8888]

13 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The revenue estimation is based on 2019 records that Indian travellers spent on average 7 days on holidays with a trip expenditure of 44,688 Baht per person

A very exact number... how do they know that? 

[ThailandRyan]

1 minute ago, RotBenz8888 said:

A very exact number... how do they know that? 

As I said not a bucket load of money.  

[Gold Star]

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The revenue estimation is based on 2019 records that Indian travellers spent on average 7 days on holidays with a trip expenditure of 44,688 Baht per person.

40,000 Flight

4000    Hotel

600      Food

88        Sharing a girl with 4 other friends

[John Drake]

India. Nipah virus outbreak. 75 percent mortality.

[zzaa09]

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

India. Nipah virus outbreak. 75 percent mortality.

One of numerous RNA Zombie Apocalyptic afflictions. 

[MrJ2U]

That would be pleasant.

 

A anything but hordes of Chinese trampling about and smoking in the elevators.

[zzaa09]

Beware of the Yellow/Brown Peril. 

Edited September 8, 2021 by zzaa09

[boogiewoogie]

11 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

Beware of the Yellow/Brown Peril. 

Thais need to get money somewhere. And since white "peril" not moving much lately...

[cyril sneer]

2 hours ago, Gold Star said:

40,000 Flight

4000    Hotel

600      Food

88        Sharing a girl with 4 other friends

I thought it was more than that (friends not money spent)

[lujanit]

Another puff piece from TAT.

[bendejo]

Ah yes, the Indian lads, who make an effort to check the doors of hotel rooms to see if they are locked unlocked. 

 

5 hours ago, Gold Star said:

[. . . ]

88        Sharing a girl with 4 other friends

I was in the Pattaya Burger King on Beach Road.  At a nearby table was 5 Indian lads.  One of them was continually going out and coming back.  They started getting loud, their speech indiscriminate, and yes, something like this was being negotiated: seemed the runner had struck a price with a girl plying her trade, and he was now trying to get her to agree to including his four friends.  I had thought this sort of thing was just sarcasm until I witnessed this myself. 

 

Many years ago I lived in India, and on more than two occasions my neighborhood friends would try to get me to hire a girl.  I had thought they were just pimping, but looking back now, it was probably also about sloppy seconds (and thirds, and . . . ).  After witnessing that in Pattaya (and learning how common it is) I get the impression these chaps get off on seeing each other in action.

 

 

Edited September 8, 2021 by bendejo

[Scrotobike]

More blah blah from TAT

It never ends like verbal diarroea.

[HeijoshinCool]

8 hours ago, Gold Star said:

40,000 Flight

4000    Hotel

600      Food

88        Sharing a girl with 4 other friends

.

 

Yes, but upon returning home, the can get the 4000 baht back by selling the towels and bedspreads....

[Albert Zweistein]

In 2019 nearly 2 million Indians travelled to Thailand generating 80 million baht. 40 baht each ? WOW !

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Bangkok, 08 September, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) would like to report that Thailand is one of the top three destinations Indians say they want to visit abroad, according to surveys on Indian travel needs.

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round.... 

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The most recent survey conducted by Thomas Cook in June 2021. on 4,000 people discovered that 46% of them wanted to travel abroad.

I want to go to Mars... followed by Jupiter then Uranus.

There's a big difference between want & will.

 

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The first of these scenarios envisions commercial flights being resumed from the major cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore, which would result in 24,500 Indians visiting Thailand during the 14-week period and generating income of 1.09 billion Baht.

 

The second scenario envisions weekly charter flights to Thailand from New Delhi and Mumbai in place of commercial flights, resulting in 4,200 Indians visiting and generating income of 187.7 million Baht.

 

The revenue estimation is based on 2019 records that Indian travellers spent on average 7 days on holidays with a trip expenditure of 44,688 Baht per person

The calculator must've been smoking more than the boffins at TAT

[hotchilli]

14 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

A very exact number... how do they know that? 

Amazing Thailand.

[Kanada]

6 hours ago, lujanit said:

Another puff piece from TAT.

and another piece of negative bs from you??!!!

Why?

[hotchilli]

10 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

That would be pleasant.

 

A anything but hordes of Chinese trampling about and smoking in the elevators.

Pleasant for some, morning prayers along the Chao Phraya

[bendejo]

If only there was a rail link

 

[SantiSuk]

Let's celebrate. 65% of Indians say they want to travel and Thailand is one of the higher up destinations thy prefer.

 

 

...... Oh, wait a minute - it's 65% of 4,000 Indians (carefully) selected by an international travel agency!

[Eric Loh]

Fresh meat for the feeding frenzy. 

[spidermike007]

Since the vast majority (perhaps 85%?) of tourists coming just prior to Covid, were low to middle income Indians, Chinese and Malaysians, they might as well stick to that segment of the market. Western interest in Thailand has been falling off, and Thailand cannot and will not attract the wealthy tourists they keep ranting about, for a dozen different reasons. So, stick with what you have. Tourism is going to be down anyway, no matter what they do. Likely only one million in 2022, with no restrictions, and only up to 5 million by 2026.

 

It is a sabotaged industry, and it appears that might be what they leaders wanted, in order to kill the nightlife here. It will devastate millions in the industry, but the leaders just do not care, one iota. 

[MrJ2U]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Pleasant for some, morning prayers along the Chao Phraya

Hope they've had there Tetnus shot.

 

The one gal next to the donkey is cute.

[RafPinto]

16 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Oh such a warm and fuzzy feel good story.

Not many staying more than a week, and one wonders what kind of coin they would spend while here.

 

The survey they refer to for the large majority of those wanting to visit seems to have come from 2019.  I wonder now, what kind of funds these same people who expressed interest back then have now and if they would still come now and not just a statement of "I would like to visit Thailand" to round out the facts for this as I said feel good story.

The market outlook for 2022, lets hope that TAT has not been reading the tea leaves again and maybe if lucky will get half of the numbers they did in 2019

 

Looking at the money each tourist spent around 47k baht during their stay.....not a bucket load of money there.

47k???

I see them always negotiating the price down on everything. Often sharing a bottle of beer.

The sale of deodorants should go through the roof.

[RafPinto]

2 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

Hope they've had there Tetnus shot.

 

The one gal next to the donkey is cute.

Yes, and big boobs he has too.

[Will B Good]

Any port in a storm I guess.