The jump was mainly due the Tourism Ministry's inclusion of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis...

Arrivals means nothing, revenue generated from these arrivals means everything

This is a commercial tourist data website, with links to TAT and others, that provides further information on tourist numbers / spend / countries of origin, etc.

http://www.thaiwebsites.com/tourism.asp

The tourist numbers are up to date (Mar15) but the spend / split details seem only to be current to 2012. It further confirms that the 23% increase noted in the OP relates to Q1 increase, year on year. Up from 6.38m in 2014 to 7.88m in 2015.

Of course it's up from the same time the previous year we had seven protest sites and daily bombings.

Would be interesting to see the breakdown by country!!! I would suspect all the increase is from China??!!

There is no increase, its all BS as usual ... ha ha ha what a scam to people in the tourist business but I guess they know the truth when the account is empty and the credit all maxed up ...

This is from this morning. There used to be 3 busses down below from Feb when I got here until about a month ago.

I flew back into swampy at 0930 on Turkish airlines TK799 the flight wasn't full, I had a row all to myself, and it took me less than 5 minutes to get through immigration as it was Dead!! Even departures on the top floor was very very quiet.