TAT expects up to 10 million foreign tourists to visit Thailand this year

[webfact]

 

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has forecast that between 7 and 10 million foreign tourists will visit Thailand this year, which will generate about 1.5 trillion baht in revenue for the country, according to Government Spokesman Thanathorn Wangboonkongchana.

 

1,359,056 foreign tourists have already visited Thailand since the beginning of this year and the TAT expects that arrivals will increase to about half a million a month during the third quarter, instead of 300,000 as earlier projected, and up to one million a month during the fourth quarter, which is the high season, he said.

 

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He attributed the increase in foreign arrivals to the relaxation of travel restrictions, including the recent scrapping of all quarantine measures, although the ”Thailand Pass” is still required for non-Thai arrivals.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/tat-expects-up-to-10-million-foreign-tourists-to-visit-thailand-this-year/

 

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[welshguy]

Another day,

 

Another wild guess. Surely they just pluck these numbers out of the air!

 

The question is?      Does anybody actually  believe/listen to these clowns?!

[StayinThailand2much]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has forecast that between 7 and 10 million foreign tourists will visit Thailand this year (...)

Surely a typo. Should read 'between 7 and 10 billion'... ????

[Straight8]

Here we go!!!............ F******K yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!

[bristolgeoff]

As long as the visa entrance is made alot easier,then the tourist will come.End of the year many will return

[Skeptic7]

2 hours ago, welshguy said:

Another day,

 

Another wild guess. Surely they just pluck these numbers out of the air!

 

The question is?      Does anybody actually  believe/listen to these clowns?!

Out of the air in their heads. More like out of their asses. 

[RichardColeman]

Tat announce new estimates of 10 million ? Near 2 million a month from here on in ?     

Drop the pass, insurance, the baht and prices and you may get -4 at best, guys are competing with themselves now to look the most ridiculous !

Edited June 3, 2022 by RichardColeman

[Chongalulu]

Like the road accident statistics this has been done to death… meaninglessly. Can we not just move onto something that doesn’t induce a coma of Groundhog Day boredom ?

[Edwin Cameron]

Dreamer's,,,! every day they come up with a number and every day they get it wrong. First of all I'd get rid of the mandate that you have to be vaccinated to enter Thailand,it's costing you thousands of potential tourists.

[mania]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has forecast that between 7 and 10 million foreign tourists will visit Thailand this year

I personally had forecast I would make around 7 million USD this year but, Like Thailand TAT I think I am not on schedule to be proven correct ????

Edited June 3, 2022 by mania

[bdenner]

Well we haven't had a ridiculous prediction for a couple of months now! Looks like some idiot, in that office, has just found the tourist calculator and put fresh batteries in it.

[mrfill]

1.4m + (3 x 500000) + (3 x 1m) = 5.4m

Even by their own fanciful figures the total doesn't even reach the low point of 7m.

 

Quel surprise...

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has forecast

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

between 7 and 10 million foreign tourists will visit Thailand this year, which will generate about 1.5 trillion baht in revenue for the country

10 mio tourist generate 1.5 trillion baht, that means one tourist has to spend 150,000 baht, or 4,400 USD... This is so exaggerated, but then I realized that the TAT includes the value of one gold necklace donated per tourist in these numbers, so well done the TAT.

[Excel]

They are at it again. Don't TAT understand that smoking weed with more than a trace of THC content is illegal ?

[Mike KIWI]

Expects, forecasts, projects. They just cycle the words around, and we keep clicking on them.

[2long]

[KhunLA]

And here I thought recreational use wasn't approved yet ... ????

[decca60]

this article just after the announcement of the genius Anutin....... They should speak together one day a year at lest..........

[newnative]

34 minutes ago, mrfill said:

1.4m + (3 x 500000) + (3 x 1m) = 5.4m

Even by their own fanciful figures the total doesn't even reach the low point of 7m.

 

Quel surprise...

    Yes, I've noticed that, too.  The numbers they tout seem to vary from day to day but every time I add them up they don't reach the low point they are predicting.  A few days ago they said Thailand would average 500,000 tourists a month in 2022 with 7 to 10 million tourists for the year.  500,000 a month is only 6 million a year--a million short of the 7 million low point.  

    What we do know is there were 1,360,000 international tourists thru May.  That leaves 7 months to attract 8,640,000 tourists to achieve the 10 million figure.  That's 1,234,000 a month--higher than their prediction of 1 million a month for just the 4th quarter months.  

     For the low 7 million figure, they need to attract 5,640,00 tourists to hit that mark.  That comes to 805,000 a month.  January thru May they were averaging 272,000 a month.  The low 7 million figure seems very high--and, highly unlikely.  

[thailand49]

Better talk to candidate Anutin he is touting 10,000 in a few days that is without lifting TP,  TAT prediction 10 million how is that going to happen?  Are we expecting massive illegal border crossing? ????

[Caldera]

Flight prices seem to be ridiculous right now from many places, let's see how long that will remain an issue.

 

Many Western countries seem to expect that Covid will flare up again in winter, which is also hard to predict.

 

I'd be very careful with predictions, but then again, it's the TAT we're talking about. 

[worrab]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has forecast that between 7 and 10 million foreign tourists will visit Thailand this year, which will generate about 1.5 trillion baht in revenue for the country,

But as usual we have no idea of the breakdown of figures. How many are returning to families? How many are transiting to go onwards? I am off to UK end of June and returning end of July so am I included in this forecast? As everyone says, it is figures just plucked out of thin air with no basis in facts whatsoever.  

[Excel]

Just now, worrab said:

But as usual we have no idea of the breakdown of figures. How many are returning to families? How many are transiting to go onwards? I am off to UK end of June and returning end of July so am I included in this forecast? As everyone says, it is figures just plucked out of thin air with no basis in facts whatsoever.  

Always have counted numbers of arrivals.

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, Caldera said:

Flight prices seem to be ridiculous right now from many places, let's see how long that will remain an issue.

 

Many Western countries seem to expect that Covid will flare up again in winter, which is also hard to predict.

 

I'd be very careful with predictions, but then again, it's the TAT we're talking about. 

Yes, booking well in advance seems to be the only way around current high prices.

Covid will possibly flare up in winter as does the flu, and hopefully be nothing more to worry about.

Making predictions is what they do, likely all they do!

Edited June 4, 2022 by jacko45k

[worrab]

1 minute ago, Excel said:

Always have counted numbers of arrivals.

Exactly, which at the end of the day means diddly squat!! Throws the financial predictions straight out of the window! TIT

[actonion]

Millions  visiting?   not if Anutin  has his way ...  Covid numbers  rising again after entertainent venues opened,    you will wear   a mask,     evening entertaiment closes at Midnight,     Police walking round checking,     it seems an idea place for a relaxing holiday, not for me ...

 

Lest see how fast Covid numbers rise  in UK after hundreds of thousands of people attended the  Queens Jubilee celebrations WITHOUT  masks or any other restrictionS

Edited June 4, 2022 by actonion

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, actonion said:

Millions  visiting?   not if Anutin  has his way ...  covid rising again after entertainent venues opened, you will wear   a mask, evening entertaiment closes at midnight, police walking round checking, it seems an idea place for a relaxing holiday

 

Lest see how fast covid numbers rise  in uk after hundreds of thousands of people attended the 

It will be a hard sell to get drunk guys kicked out of the nightlife early to put masks on. 

UK seems to have given up reporting Covid. 

[Wuvu2]

 

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

10 mio tourist generate 1.5 trillion baht, that means one tourist has to spend 150,000 baht, or 4,400 USD... This is so exaggerated, but then I realized that the TAT includes the value of one gold necklace donated per tourist in these numbers, so well done the TAT.

Pattaya has an impressive number of foreign tourists at the moment, but with Chinese people still unable to travel and impact of the Ukraine war, most of the foreign tourists are Indian men. That fits Thailand's stated focus on Indian tourists, but I seriously doubt they are spending anywhere near TAT's fantasy spend.

 

I think the only folks truly celebrating are the owners of Pattaya's Indian restaurants, although I've heard the soapy massage places are doing a slick bit of business these days too ????

Edited June 4, 2022 by Wuvu2

[vivananahuahin]

one moment please, that the airpors can serving 10 000.000 persons in a year, may be but not tourists, nuancing is necerssary.