Samui Island, Surat Thani – More than three million people visited Samui Island which generated more than 37 Billion Baht in revenue last year, said Samui tourism authorities.

The Samui Tourism and Sports Office reported that that there were 3,185,000 tourists who visited Samui Island from January to November last year which generated a total of 37 billion Baht.

 

Most of the foreign tourists were from Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, France and Russia.

 

By Goongnang Suksawat

 

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37 billion baht divide by 3185000 = 11 616

I wonder how the tourists are counted. Flights only?

As far as I know, the ferry companies do not separate tourists from locals from deliveries.

Does anyone out there know?

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Samui Island, Surat Thani – More than three million people visited Samui Island which generated more than 37 Billion Baht in revenue last year, said Samui tourism authorities.

Should be able to tidy up the place a bit then.

3 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

I wonder how the tourists are counted. Flights only?

As far as I know, the ferry companies do not separate tourists from locals from deliveries.

Does anyone out there know?

TM30 is a good suggestion...

Must be one hell of alot of garbage laying about.

2 hours ago, Kilick said:

Must be one hell of alot of garbage laying about.

Sometimes.

But the Tessabaan have teams of street cleaners that go around tidying the streets regularly.

Where they do not clean, we have local community groups/hotels that do it as well as clearing the beaches.

We had a private street clean last week and beach cleans the week before.

Obviously, with tides, the beaches are a never ending job. Pretty bad after a storm.

We work with a group called 'Trash Heroes'.

 

https://trashhero.org/network/trash-hero-koh-samui/

2 hours ago, Kilick said:

Must be one hell of alot of garbage laying about.

 

Yes.

 

This is why I do not go to see the ocean in Thailand.

 

The pandemic is now over, and so I missed out on the ONLY time I would have gone, if I had had any yen for a visit there.

 

 

I must have been walking around with my eyes closed  as I missed them  how do they arrive at these figures