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Thailand Targets Eight Million European Tourists for Record 2024


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This event and information won't go down well with the naysayers who falsely claim European tourism to Thailand is slowly declining, or that TAT do nothing to promote Thailand to the European markets.

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I seem to see many young men wandering around town stoned and riding scooters erratically the last few months. 

The availability of drugs is attracting many drug enthusiasts.

I can also say that many Europeans are dealing in drugs .

I can well see why Thailand  expect 8 million tourists from Europe .

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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Quantity over quality works well, if you are selling two dollar items at a swap meet. Attracting a higher number of lower end tourists, who do not spend alot, benefits very few. It just creates congestion and lowers the quality of life for everyone. The goons in charge are incapable of learning. 

Like a broken record. 
 

You seem to think you are better than us Europeans.

 

You just voted in a felon, sexual pest who doesn’t pay his bills.

 

Maybe it is time to get off your high horse. 

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3 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

 

Always more and more ... they do not know the word " enough " ...

Money , money is all they think about ...

 

"The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) reports anticipations of welcoming 9.6 million long-haul tourists this year, aiming for over 896 billion baht in revenue with next year’s target."

 

Whenever you see the words "Tourist Authority Of Thailand (TAT)", you will notice that they are always followed by words like "expects", "aims for",  "anticipates", "hopes for", "expects" and then some figures that are wild "guesstimations".

 

What makes me splutter in my morning coffee is that these posts are often accompanied by other posts stating that resorts like Phuket are complaining about having too many tourists!

 

Regarding attracting 8 million tourists from Europe, I think someone should remind TAT that people in the likes of the UK will be struggling to pay their food and Utility bills in the winter of 2024, and holidays are probably the last thing they are planning for! Or maybe they are "anticipating" millions of Russians and Ukrainians escaping from the war?

 

"In the Winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive" (The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down")

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36 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Like a broken record. 
 

You seem to think you are better than us Europeans.

 

You just voted in a felon, sexual pest who doesn’t pay his bills.

 

Maybe it is time to get off your high horse. 

How do you know how he voted? Speaking of high horse. Project much? No decent person voted for Trump. The problem is that there are too many ignorant and hateful people who did vote for him. If someone is living here it's obvious they're no longer part of what's going on in the US. The reason I chose to live here is largely b ecause of what the US has become. What you're doing is inventing a fight where there is none because you interpret comments as personal attacks when they are anything but. 

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1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

Like a broken record. 
 

You seem to think you are better than us Europeans.

 

You just voted in a felon, sexual pest who doesn’t pay his bills.

 

Maybe it is time to get off your high horse. 

I have no idea where that is coming from, definitely sounds like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I love Europeans, I love Europe, and I was insinuating that the lack of European tourists has been a damaging element to Thai tourism.

 

 I didn't vote for Trump so I have no idea where that's coming from, everybody on this forum knows how much I dislike the man. 

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I flew back from the UK last week and the flight was full. Mainly tourists.

November always seemed to be a quieter month, being between October half term holidays and Christmas, but here in Samui it still looks pretty busy.

 

This constant increase in tourist number isn't sustainable. As constant development ruins the more beautiful places, there will be less attraction for many tourists to come here. Not everyone is a monger.

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

 

Always more and more ... they do not know the word " enough " ...

Money , money is all they think about ...

They learning the young ones that money is allways number one.So im not surprised that this is the only thing the thaigirls want.

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21 minutes ago, phetphet said:

I flew back from the UK last week and the flight was full. Mainly tourists.

November always seemed to be a quieter month, being between October half term holidays and Christmas, but here in Samui it still looks pretty busy.

 

This constant increase in tourist number isn't sustainable. As constant development ruins the more beautiful places, there will be less attraction for many tourists to come here. Not everyone is a monger.

 

 

 

 

You're assuming that there will be a constant increase, numbers are not even back to 2019 levels. As we've seen in the past any number of factors can negatively impact tourism in any given year. Global financial factors, health crisis, conflicts. etc etc.

 

Also worth remembering the higher growth markets are closer to home and typically of shorter stay duration so it may not reflect a massive rise in  numbers here at any one time. 

 

The Indian and Chinese markets have increased the lower low season months without dramatically increasing the traditional high season months.

 

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