Popular Post snoop1130 Posted April 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2022 Suvarnabhumi International Airport has welcomed more than 10,000 travelers per day after the mandatory RT-PCR test before entering Thailand was canceled since April 1st. Kittipong Kittikachorn, General Manager of Suvarnabhumi Airport, revealed today, April 6th, that after the Thai government eased preventive measures for international arrival on April 1st, the average number of visitors in Thailand had reached 11,623 people per day which increased by 65.97 percent from March where the number was only at 7,003 visitors per day. Keep up to date with all things Thailand - Join our daily ASEAN NOW Thailand Newsletter - Click to subscribe TPN notes, however, that this is a far cry from pre-covid numbers of tourism arrivals which often saw up to roughly 200,000 people on the busier days of Songkran in 2019! In 2019, the Phuket Airport was averaging about 65,400 people a day during Songkran. That number is now just above 2,000. Tourist associations and business owners say that a significant reason for still low arrivals is that Test and Go and Thailand Pass remain huge obstacles for many travelers, especially concerns of testing positive on arrival and being sent to quarantine. Organizations have been pushing across Thailand for months for the Thai Government to completely remove the programs, but Thailand’s Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration, or CCSA, has denied these requests so far, saying they plan to do so by June or July if the situation improves, without a firm “set in stone” guarantee. The average number of international inbound flights also increased to 141 flights per day from 137 in March, accountable for a 2.92 percent increase. The airport GM also said that the number of international travelers entering Thailand would continue to increase. Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/04/06/more-than-10000-international-travelers-per-day-arrives-at-suvarnabhumi-airport-after-easing-of-covid-19-restrictions-from-april-1st-but-a-far-cry-from-2019-as-businesses-call-for-thailand-pass/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-04-06 - Aetna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Soikhaonoiken Posted April 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2022 More B.S figures being published.... 12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SoilSpoil Posted April 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2022 So the number stands at 5% of the same period in 2019. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Laughing Gravy Posted April 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2022 9 hours ago, snoop1130 said: TPN notes, however, that this is a far cry from pre-covid numbers of tourism arrivals which often saw up to roughly 200,000 people on the busier days of Songkran in 2019! In 2019, the Phuket Airport was averaging about 65,400 people a day during Songkran. That number is now just above 2,000. So this is the crux of it. 9 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Tourist associations and business owners say that a significant reason for still low arrivals is that Test and Go and Thailand Pass remain huge obstacles for many travelers, especially concerns of testing positive on arrival and being sent to quarantine. What everyone with half a brain cell knows. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted April 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2022 Kitti Kitti is likely including all arrivals, including business arrivals, returning expats, people with family here, etc. Any improvement is going to help a tiny bit. Scrap the test and go, and maybe you will see 2 million "real tourists" a year. For awhile. Thailand. The forgotten land. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bendejo Posted April 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2022 Sounds like inflated numbers meant to bolster confidence. On the other hand potential tourists may see these figures and decide LOS is too crowded already, better go somewhere else. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ikke1959 Posted April 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2022 hahahahahahahahahahahahaha 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChrisY1 Posted April 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2022 Mandatory hotel stays of 10,000 beds on the first day could be labelled a clever scam..but of course, it's not:)) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Just now, ChrisY1 said: Mandatory hotel stays of 10,000 beds on the first day could be labelled a clever scam..but of course, it's not:)) So these folks were planning to sleep on the beach otherwise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 13 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Suvarnabhumi International Airport has welcomed more than 10,000 travelers per day after the mandatory RT-PCR test before entering Thailand was canceled since April 1st. Yeah okay. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post law ling Posted April 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 7, 2022 3 hours ago, spidermike007 said: Kitti Kitti is likely including all arrivals, including business arrivals, returning expats, people with family here, etc. Indeed ... and Kitti might also be counting transit passengers and air crew. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RandiRona Posted April 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) 10 Thousand hotel rooms, 10 Thousand covid test, 10 thousand Airport transfers, 10 Thousands fraud Insurance ....Sold to the Gentleman of TAT!!! Hospitals...Please wait for your turn on day 1 or 5..... Edited April 7, 2022 by RandiRona 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RichardColeman Posted April 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 7, 2022 So, 10,000 a day in a busy holiday travel period. That's that, a poor 300k a month and 3.6 million a year. Allowing for the first few months of the year ongoing tourism disaster, a fall off after the holiday period and I seriously cannot see Thailand getting to 3 million tourists this year unless they drop this nutcasery imminently 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Given some of the photos and videos on social media, this is totally believable. I'm surprised the whole day 1/sha+ thing is holding up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrymahoney Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 33 minutes ago, RichardColeman said: So, 10,000 a day in a busy holiday travel period. That's that, a poor 300k a month and 3.6 million a year. Allowing for the first few months of the year ongoing tourism disaster, a fall off after the holiday period and I seriously cannot see Thailand getting to 3 million tourists this year unless they drop this nutcasery imminently I was at BKK 2 April for a few hours awaiting domestic check-in -- Gotta start somewhere. Lots of young non-Asian recent arrival types heading to the usual spots. And the Emirates check in was very busy with folks in Islam garb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiexpat Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) "...after the Thai government eased preventive measures for international arrival on April 1st, the average number of visitors in Thailand had reached 11,623 people per day which increased by 65.97 percent from March where the number was only at 7,003 visitors per day" Or more likely because a 5th night hotel quarantine with PCR was required and this increase is just the timely affect of removing that hoop? Edited April 7, 2022 by aussiexpat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Roll the dice and pick some numbers. Is that how they arrive at these numbers? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbooboo Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Hmmm…. Maybe there’s 2 Survanabhumi international airports? One with the real arrival numbers and the one mentioned in this article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteman Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 I wonder when this picture was really taken And the Emirates check in was very busy with folks in Islam garb. These people are leaving not coming. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterwhisper Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 2 hours ago, RichardColeman said: So, 10,000 a day in a busy holiday travel period. That's that, a poor 300k a month and 3.6 million a year. Allowing for the first few months of the year ongoing tourism disaster, a fall off after the holiday period and I seriously cannot see Thailand getting to 3 million tourists this year unless they drop this nutcasery imminently Look at the bright side: it easily beats the international arrival at Pyongyang airport. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrymahoney Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) 46 minutes ago, whiteman said: I wonder when this picture was really taken And the Emirates check in was very busy with folks in Islam garb. These people are leaving not coming. Many of them could have been Thai citizens now not so worried about their return. Edited April 7, 2022 by jerrymahoney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronster Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Half the people in that photo appear to be workers dressed in black with armbands who appear to be checking paperwork ! ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrymahoney Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, ronster said: Half the people in that photo appear to be workers dressed in black with armbands who appear to be checking paperwork ! ???? Maybe so -- are you maybe suggesting that once this arrival group is cleared, no others will then show up. I watched this hub bub on the second floor for a while from up on the 4th floor but didn't pay any detailed attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orchidfan Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 3 hours ago, RandiRona said: 10 Thousand hotel rooms, 10 Thousand covid test, 10 thousand Airport transfers, 10 Thousands fraud Insurance ....Sold to the Gentleman of TAT!!! Hospitals...Please wait for your turn on day 1 or 5..... There is no day 5! Get up to date. You're given an ATK to take away and test yourself. Nobody ever demands or checks the results of that ATK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seppius Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Jomtien area of Pattaya where I live, you can certainly see an increase in tourists around the last few days 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skallywag Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Uncontrolled growth is never a good thing. 1990 less than 5 million tourists a year in Thailand, 2019 almost 40 million tourists. 700% increase in 20 years, not sustainable, just greedy Sustainability and less reliance on tourism is better for the country long term 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will B Good Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Heathrow has a landing every 90 seconds....based on that it means an average of 10 passengers on each flight into BKK........not bad! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Harveyboy Posted April 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 7, 2022 its not about the pre departure tests its the scam of the arrival in Thailand tests thats the problem 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) A quick count shows ~ 41 int'l wide-body arrivals today so far: 00:01 - 14:15. With another ~ 27 yet to land. EK has one A380 on the BKK route. QR announced they're moving to two (2) A380s on the DOH-BKK sector. 10,000 arrivals, 68* flights, avg. 147, seems believable? And the photos on FB and Twitter show quite densely-packed crowds in the arrivals area. *I didn't count ~ 20-ish narrow-body int'l arrivals, or the MUC-NNT "ghost-flight". Edited April 7, 2022 by mtls2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trvlr55 Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Removal of pre-flight PCR had no effect. Changing day 5 from mini-quarantine PCR test to ATK makes a huge difference. They really need go to ATK only on arrival, but now that summer if quickly approaching arrival numbers are historically low. They've missing out for yet another high season already. Even on ATK on arrival, positives should be MAX of 5 day quarantine; Omicron is completely different that previous variants, however the "science" used has not kept up with current conditions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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