Phuket’s new year tourist surge levels off

[snoop1130]

 

Figures from Phuket’s Immigration Office indicate that the huge surge of tourists into Phuket has levelled off after the Christmas/New Year holiday period.

 

From December 25 to this week, the daily arrival numbers have hovered between 9,500 and 12,900 people. But the average has ‘flatlined’ since December 15 last year although there is no clear sign of the daily arrivals dropping at this stage, although the graph at the bottom of the information suggests a mild softening in demand since New Year.

 

Again, the Russian arrivals are, by far, the most numbers of the nationalities flying into Phuket at this time, almost three times more numerous as the second highest population of arrivals from India. The figures, below, show arrival numbers from the start of November up to January 14.

 

The next populous countries visiting Phuket are British, Australians, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Germany and Malaysia. From this month Phuket expects to see the return of Chinese travellers, starting with Chinese New Year which will start seeing arrivals for this holiday starting this week, culminating on January 22, the start of the Chinese Year of the Rabbit.

 

An average of the numbers coming to Phuket, in the period from November 1 – January 14 indicates just under a third of the tourist traffic Phuket was experiencing pre-2020, the last full year of travel before the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Source: https://phuket-go.com/phuket-news/phuket-travel/phukets-new-year-tourist-surge-levels-off/

 

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[patongphil]

How many of the Russians are leaving?

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, patongphil said:

How many of the Russians are leaving?

Leaving Russia or leaving Phuket?

????

[Thaindrew]

2 hours ago, patongphil said:

How many of the Russians are leaving?

most seem to be staying for 12 months based on the rentals they are taking out, the question is on what visas?

[flyingtlger]

Out with the Ruskies and In with the Chinese...A perpetual revolving door for tourists coming to Phuket per se.

 

[jcmj]

I have a feeling that they will continue to drop everywhere in Thailand. People were couped up for a long time and wanted to get away. Same in every country. However with the Chinese coming I’ll bet other foreigners will be avoiding Thailand. Plus the fact that the exchange rates are tanking and people just don’t have the spare money like they used to.  There are so many flip flops here that many won’t take the risk and we have the upcoming elections which will be another crazy time. I may be wrong, but I just think there’s a lot to consider when booking a trip here. Sure a lot of the Russians want to get away from the craziness back home but they also have to survive. I don’t believe TAT at all and they are just setting up Thais to fail as they are all setting up businesses according to what they are told. 

[Gottfrid]

Kinda as predicted then.