A million foreign arrivals expected for Chinese New Year in February – TAT

[webfact]

 

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has predicted that almost a million foreign tourists will visit the kingdom during the Chinese New Year festival, which runs from February 8th to 16th, generating an estimated 28 billion baht in revenues.

 

TAT Governor Thapanee Kiatphaibool said that the number of foreign arrivals, especially from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, is expected to increase by 29% compared to last year.

 

Arrivals from China during this year’s festival are forecast to increase threefold, to about 150,000, while arrivals from Taiwan and Hong Kong are expected to increase by 137%.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-01-24

 

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[Will B Good]

Only a million?....pffft......TAT are losing it.

[KannikaP]

Why do Chinese want to leave their own country to celebrate their own New Year?

[proton]

Best stay in then around the 9th

[NoDisplayName]

3 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Why do Chinese want to leave their own country to celebrate their own New Year?

 

Why stay home when you get 7-8 days vacation?

Not much to do locally as most everything is closed.

Don't want to travel domestically, not with half a billion migrant workers traveling to their home villages and back.

 

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China Sees Record Nine Billion Trips Over This Lunar New Year

Jan 16, 2024   "According to our estimation, a record high 9 billion trips will likely be made during the 40-day holiday travel period," Vice Transport Minister Li Yang said at a briefing in Beijing on Tuesday.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-16/china-sees-record-nine-billion-trips-over-this-lunar-new-year

 

 

[impulse]

5 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Why do Chinese want to leave their own country to celebrate their own New Year?

 

'Cause it's frickin' freezing up here.

 

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has predicted

I didn't bother reading more.