TAT latest figures: Half a million tourists will visit Thailand this year - 2/3 day wait on "Omicron Effect"

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

The head of Thailand's tourism authority said that when the final numbers are tallied half a million foreign tourists will have visited the country this year.

 

Yutthasak Suphasorn said that the number had already been bolstered by 100,000 arrivals since the November 1st reopening.

 

And 300,000 are waiting in the wings having logged on to register for the Thailand Pass. 

 

Meanwhile Thai Rath pressed him for what the emergence of the Omicron Covid-19 variant would be.

 

Yutthasak said that there had been no slowdown as yet but it was early days in the reaction to the news.

 

He suggested that it would take two to three days before they could be sure of the Omicron effect on Thai tourism.

 

Pre-pandemic, in 2019, Thailand had around 40 million foreign tourists. 

 

Most of the 2020 arrivals came in January of that year before the full scale of the Covid impact became apparent.

 

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[fangless]

Does he buy his crystal ball from a 20Baht store?

[tomazbodner]

5 minutes ago, fangless said:

Does he buy his crystal ball from a 20Baht store?

No, he got inflatable one...

[Farangus]

Usually this gentleman talks about millions of tourists.  Did he forget his magic calculator at home?

 

Also I am always wondering: do I get into the statistics of Thailand Pass when I just open this website for some cheking without registering?

[club]

This guy is smoking some good Thai weed

[marcusb]

My country has tourism as well. Its gone down. I don't believe I've heard one report guesstimating the tourism numbers this year. Why do they feel the need in Thailand to takes wild guesses 3 times a week. Its embarrassing. 

[Crossy]

6 minutes ago, marcusb said:

My country has tourism as well. Its gone down. I don't believe I've heard one report guesstimating the tourism numbers this year. Why do they feel the need in Thailand to takes wild guesses 3 times a week. Its embarrassing. 

 

"Wild Guesses" are down from 5-7 times a week

 

[RafPinto]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

And 300,000 are waiting in the wings

????????????

[Misterwhisper]

2 hours ago, fangless said:

Does he buy his crystal ball from a 20Baht store?

It's obviously "Made in China" because it malfunctioning so very, very often.

[ChrisKC]

4 hours ago, fangless said:

Does he buy his crystal ball from a 20Baht store?

No, he gets it free with his bowl of noodles

[outsider]

4 hours ago, fangless said:

Does he buy his crystal ball from a 20Baht store?

It's free. A premium gift that comes with the Thai weed.

[madmitch]

He prob

4 hours ago, webfact said:

And 300,000 are waiting in the wings having logged on to register for the Thailand Pass. 

Many of whom will be coming in 2022. But of course Mr TAT hasn't worked that out yet!

[stigar]

In 2/3 days they will say no new covidvirus...same afternoon they will say that thailand is a safe country to travel to.The only asian country who dont have the new covidvirus.Here we go again

[mjakob007]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Yutthasak Suphasorn said that the number had already been bolstered by 100,000 arrivals since the November 1st reopening

Of the 100,000,

- some 40,000 were Thais returning home

- some 30,000 were foreigners who were not willing to go through 14 day ASQ.

- Another 29997 were business related and new work permit holders.

 

There were 3 legitimate tourists, who were spotted bar hopping (i mean restaurant hopping) in khao san road over the weekend.

[tonysilly]

I used to work in Krabi, our company has 4 restaurants. Its been almost two years since we closed.  I feel bad for the guy who built and worked hard to give many Thai people a good Salary. You think anyone will help him or the staff we lost ?? You know they are not coming back because why quite the job they are now for a job you don't know if any customers will come.  1\2 Million tourist?? Yea! Right! 

So sad and <deleted> off at the same time.  Why? Had to leave my Son while I go back to the States and make real money.  Bless all who had to struggle during this time.  

 

[Sydebolle]

[KhruGin]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Pre-pandemic, in 2019, Thailand had around 40 million foreign tourists

So umm 500k, so umm 98.75% down at best ...however ...

 

10 minutes ago, mjakob007 said:

Of the 100,000, some 70,000 were Thais returning home & foreigners who were not willing to go through 14 day ASQ. Another 29997 were business related and new work permit holders.

 

There were 3 legitimate tourists, who were spotted in khao san road over the weekend.

Maybe exaggerated a tad ???? but several stories recently conclude this ..actual "tourists" of the 100K probably do not exceed 30K. A sad situation for all the Thais involved in this sector but we live in strange times eh.

[dogfish180]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

And 300,000 are waiting in the wings having logged on to register for the Thailand Pass

And still not received it! 

[Farangdk]

Another magic number. Another big dream. A dream that will not come true. But in their heads it will. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Road Warrior]

what a good guess  !!!!!  really ought be a comedian !!!    they will have to panic only 30 days left in 2021 !!!!

[ivor bigun]

just back from town here in Pattaya,went to Central which was quite busy ,but with locals walking about ,not a tourist in sight ,anyway why would anyone come everything is closed that tourists would visit.

yesterday we did our shop in BIG C  central ,the wife commented how few Thais were shopping ,the only ones seemed to be with their Falang husbands /boyfriends ,

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The head of Thailand's tourism authority said that when the final numbers are tallied half a million foreign tourists will have visited the country this year.

Of that I have no-doubt... Thailand can make figures for everything.

[Millcx]

6 hours ago, fangless said:

Does he buy his crystal ball from a 20Baht store?

They ain’t got a clue 

[RichardColeman]

I really do not think the issue is how many will come this year - though it wont be 300,000. People who want to get away for X-mas and December will always travel, but it will also include more expats and thais waiting to see what happened in November

 

The issue will be them getting the predicted 300,000 in jan, Feb and March, before ramping up near 2.5 million a month to hit their golden predicted 14 million next year ! I seriously think the TAT should adjust that next years figure from 14 million to 4-5 million now, or look more daft next year - again

[dlclark97]

OK, 100,000 in November.  Possibly but?  Another 300,000 just chomping at the bit for the day they will get to Thailand.  By my numbers, in the 31 days left this year or almost 9,700 arrivals per day.  Good luck with that!   

[Cat Boy]

I fully expect over a billion people to visit Thailand by years end. TAT is being far and away too conservative.

Fully one in seven humans on earth with visit Thailand over the coming months, all of them Hi-So, none of them backpackers.

[timendres]

1 minute ago, Cat Boy said:

I fully expect over a billion people to visit Thailand by years end. TAT is being far and away too conservative.

Fully one in seven humans on earth with visit Thailand over the coming months, all of them Hi-So, none of them backpackers.

Confirmed.

[Thaivisa2006]

Is there any visibility of how many are actually real tourists I.e. are they really coming with a tourist visa? I assume most are returning expats. 

[sawadee1947]

7 hours ago, fangless said:

Does he buy his crystal ball from a 20Baht store?

To be honest I wouldn't like to have Crystal Balls........????

[fangless]

1 minute ago, sawadee1947 said:

To be honest I wouldn't like to have Crystal Balls........????

They take a lot of seeing to and shatter some peoples dreams!