Govt confident more tourists will arrive in Thailand this year

BANGKOK, 12 August 2015 (NNT)- The Thai government is confident the number of foreign tourists visiting Thailand will soar to 28.8 million by the end of this year.

According to Deputy Spokesperson to the Prime Minister’s Office, Major General Sansern Keawkamnerd, the tourism sector has been doing well since the beginning of February.

More than 17 million tourists have visited the country, spending around 818 billion baht during their stay. The government believed there would be more tourists arriving in the country than what the Ministry of Tourism and Sports has projected by 1 million people.

Thailand will have earned estimated revenues of 1.6 trillion baht in total by the end of 2015. A large number of Chinese tourists are expected to come to Thailand in October during their national day holiday period due to the weakening baht.

300,000 more Americans are also forecast to travel to Thailand as the American economy has begun to improve. They usually stay in the country around 14-15 days each time they visit Thailand.


-- NNT 2015-08-12

Don't count your chickens..........Re weakening THB,offset by devaluation of yuan,

regards Worgeordie

You have to admire there optimism!

I plan to visit, trip 14 I think it will be. I have been way busy at work on this contract. I couldn't turn down the money. I love the USD to Baht exchange rate. Not as good as the 44 i got back in 2004 on my first trips, but better than 30

If they re worried Waive the Damn Visa Fees...

Don't count your chickens..........Re weakening THB,offset by devaluation of yuan,

regards Worgeordie

yuan devalued 2% after it increased value 15%....

300,000 more Americans? God, I love their optimism!

Those damn Americans.

Such hypocrites.

First they criticize you. Then they come and spend money in your country.

Nice tactic...

devalue the baht...then invite the U.S. to come and spend the dollars.

double price everything....and bam...they make out like bandits.

Its a public holiday today but the SPIN FACTORY is still working.

Govt confident more tourists will arrive in Thailand this year.

Who could resist?

Don't count your chickens..........Re weakening THB,offset by devaluation of yuan,

regards Worgeordie

yuan devalued 2% after it increased value 15%....

And another 1.6% today with rumors of more to come....biggest drop in a long time.

I would like to hear why they think more tourists should come to this dangerous, unfriendly overpriced place - Dear potentiel tourists, go to Vietnam ... there you will find real smiling people (not plastic smiles), clean beaches, cheap food and drinks and you will not get annoyed and shaken down by some criminal in a uniform ...

Thailand is a lost paradise, RIP to Thailand - new places are ready to take over ...

I think that somebody must have put some "magic mushrooms" in the staff canteen food at Govt. house. They are seriously deluding themselves if they think that tourism will be up this year

Do they get their news from the TAT or is it the other way around?

Don't count your chickens..........Re weakening THB,offset by devaluation of yuan,

regards Worgeordie

How does a great exchange rate deter tourism? Just curious.

Being such a xenophobe, Prayuth must hate having to suck up to tourists. Shame he treats them so badly (Koh Tao etc)

Don't count your chickens..........Re weakening THB,offset by devaluation of yuan,

regards Worgeordie

How does a great exchange rate deter tourism? Just curious.

When people are used to a great exchange rate and it drops to being a good rate they feel they are losing out and do other things.

Australia was above the US$ but when it dropped to about 90 cents, though still a very strong rate, people thought twice about travelling. Its human nature.

Oh yeah ! And I am confident that my Thai wife will stop lying to me !

300,000 more Americans is dreaming. With luck, about 900,000 total this year, for an increase of about 150,000 from last year.

Overall, international arrivals this year will certainly surpass last year's 24.8 million and may well top the 2013 record. I'd guess about 27 million, depending mostly on Chinese arrivals for the rest of the year. And no, no affiliation with the government. Just 35 years of following the subject, both personally and professionally.

So on the one hand, we have a government department patting itself on the back for shipping in more tourists. And on the other hand we have a government department complaining that a goodly percentage of the tourists being shipped in are "zero coin".

Maybe there should be a little communication between them to identify target markets, develop effective marketing strategies for exploiting them, and setting up some intelligent KPI instead of just arrival numbers to monitor success?

Any sentence these days that starts "The Thai Government is confident ..." invites a competition among ThaiVisa veterans to finish the sentence. The problem is that the best entries would get another sentence, 15 years worth.

Junta telling lies again they are just guestimating figures must have been looking at some old TAT figures where they used to jump up on down on a calculator and then just double it for the exact numbers of visitors

There is no way they would say that they are not confident.

Thus confidence equals to hogwash.

At this stage it must surly come under the heading of "An Obsession". Virtually every day there is a statement issued concerning....."Tourism".

Drop the Visa fees.

Drop the ATM Fees.

Get rid of the scams.

Stop the rip offs & crimes against tourists.

Then the figures might be met with quality tourists & not have to rely on the Chinese.

Pure propaganda !

I am 100% confident that the Thai govt is confident.

Goodness me. You don't need to have confidence when looking at official tourist arrival figures.

If anything the govt are being a bit reserved in their prediction.

FACTS...Gotto love em.

Pure propaganda !

Interesting, and you base this on what facts?

Got any official tourist arrival figures you can produce? Anything tangible to back up your statement. Anything at all, but don't say "I stayed at a hotel and the room next to me was empty so the tourist numbers have gone down". That was used already on TVF and quite frankly is embarrassing that they have to resort to that to back up their "Pure Propaganda" statement.

So without further adu......I look forward to your facts.