Tourist arrivals in Thailand increase in Q1 by 23%

[sfokevin]

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

Edited May 14, 2015 by sfokevin

[Fat Haggis]

Arrivals means nothing, revenue generated from these arrivals means everything

[dabhand]

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.

[kevc]

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

[Johnny S]

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 ...

[Praematura]

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

[Fat Haggis]

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.