Thailand welcomes nearly 6 million foreigners in first 8 weeks of 2024

[webfact]

The Thai tourism minister says a total of 5,981,234 international visitors arrived in the kingdom between January 1 and February 25. Sudawan Wangsuphakijkosol estimates this has resulted in tourism revenue of over 290 billion baht.

 

Most visitors are from China, with 1,114,316 during the first 8 weeks of the year, dominating the first place for arrivals. They were followed by Malaysia, with 759,828, and Russia, with 397,006 travellers. South Korea and India are also proving to be lucrative markets, with 387,475 and 293,129 arrivals respectively.

 

Thailand welcomed 763,855 foreign arrivals during the past week of February 19 – 25, a decrease of 8.19% on the week before. This is still an average of 109,123 arrivals per day.

 

By Peter Roche

FILE PHOTO: Tourists arriving Thailand Suvarnabhumi

 

Full story: PhuketGO 2024-02-28

 

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[ChaiyaTH]

How many are actual tourists instead of transit people? I know a lot who went to laos or cambodia to then fly back to bangkok before flying home.

As always these numbers say nothing.. Thai news is almost like the matrix, it repeats same articles constantly.

[ikke1959]

Amazing TAT.... 6 million divided by 8 multiply with 52 is 39 million ... and the high season has to come yet... Celebrations for you.....but I don't believe it. Arrivals are not always tourists, but can be Thai people just coming home from a holiday. expats  and business men from a holiday or  seminar and of course people in transit... 

[Gsxrnz]

I reckon Phuket must be one of Russia's most populated islands by now.

[kinyara]

Good start to the year for them, 12% ahead of the rate required to meet their 35 million target in 2024.

[Foxx]

Welcomes? I don't think so.  From ridiculously long queues at Suvarnabhumi to a panoply of scams and to dual pricing.  None of that is welcoming.

It's not the foreigners that are welcome, it's only their wallets.

[bdenner]

Not the way to welcome tourists:- A photo of a packed walkway heading for the endless queues at immigration.

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

The Thai tourism minister says a total of 5,981,234 international visitors arrived in the kingdom between January 1 and February 25. Sudawan Wangsuphakijkosol estimates this has resulted in tourism revenue of over 290 billion baht.

Estimates something that he has no clue about peoples spending habits.

[jacko45k]

Being made to stand for long periods in queues and addressed by a surly IO is what passes as 'welcomed' these days is it?

[sammieuk1]

But looking at that list where has the quality gone this year 🤔

[mikebell]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Malaysia, with 759,828,

Mostly males visiting Hat Yai to purchase their weekend oats.

[Mike Lister]

42 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

But looking at that list where has the quality gone this year 🤔

What's your definition of quality tourist, presumably not anyone from those countries on the list?

[kinyara]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Estimates something that he has no clue about peoples spending habits.

 

The Minister for Tourism you refer to is a she not a he, just thought I'd mention it.

[hotchilli]

52 minutes ago, kinyara said:

 

The Minister for Tourism you refer to is a she not a he, just thought I'd mention it.

Oooop's my bad, I forgot Phipat got moved on 

[Mike Lister]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Estimates something that he has no clue about peoples spending habits.

What statistic would you like to have confirmed? Length of stay, nationality, mode of transport, spend per day...you name it and it's tracked.

 

You can safely ignore the warnings about the site not being secure or the file having been tampered with,.

 

http://statbbi.nso.go.th/staticreport/page/sector/en/17.aspx

 

Or how about this one, expenditure by region:

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1140532/thailand-value-of-spending-per-tourist-by-region-of-origin/