TAT grants rewards for 28 millionth visitor to Thailand



BANGKOK, 14 December 2015 (NNT) – The Tourism Authority of Thailand has granted rewards including two free return tickets for the 28 millionth visitor to Thailand, aiming to attract the lucky visitor to return to Thailand in the future.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand’s (TAT) Deputy Governor for International Marketing Juthaporn Rerngronasa has led officials from Airports of Thailand, THAI Airways, True Corporation, and the Immigration Bureau to welcome Mr Singh Sundeep Kumar from India along with his family after being the 28 millionth visitor to Thailand.

The lucky visitor was traveling from Singapore to Thailand and intends to stay in Thailand for 7 days. He was given the return tickets for two passengers traveling from the originating country to and from Bangkok, with an additional 5 nights accommodation, and a smartphone equipped with a 4G network plan.

The TAT Deputy Governor has said that the number of visitors to Thailand in 2015 is expected reach 28.8 million persons which meets the designated goal. The number of visitors during the first 10 months this year has increased by 24.75 percent, 60 percent of which are from Asian countries, 30 percent from European and American countries, and from other countries by 10 percent.

She has also mentioned that there have been about 1 million visitors from India to Thailand throughout the year.

-- NNT 2015-12-14

Have yer cake and treat it

wasn't it only like last week they did the same for the 27 millionth visitor ?

How many more can they ' squeeze ' in for a New Year's Eve presentation farce ?

Just make sure they make it home alive. That will be reward enough.

Return tickets? Arai wa? Don't you need to purchase tickets to get here first?

28 Millionth visitor gets an airline ticket and a smart phone???

I would have said, oh no thanks and walked away, and then gauge there reactions

So arrivals are to meet the goal of 28.8 million exactly ?

Roll on the New Year and Songran holidays so they can announce how many people travelled and how much money was spent before the holidays are actually over.

Nevermind a tourist industry promotion, Thailand should be boycotted.

Hit 'Like' to be disappeared in Thailand!

TAT and desperation. Same meaning just different.

By all odds I am expecting Chinese!

Wonder how they would treat the ten millionth expat.

lets be fair about this, we are all sure tat is telling the truth and tourist arrivals has hit 28mil, it just doesnt show on the streets so much due to so many expats moving to greener pastures

Strange how the "lucky numbered" winner is always flying THAI.

Visitors are not necessarily tourists. How many visitors are in-transit waiting for a connecting flight?

"The Tourism Authority of Thailand has granted rewards..."

A two week paid vacation to the Mediterranean would be the best reward

Nice wholesome family deserves the prize - if the actual 28th m was a crusty old farang pervert monger, I reckon they might wait for nicer specimens to present themselves (like these Indians - good luck to them).

Has everyone noticed it is NEVER someone that has just done his visa run.

Everything here is done for Photo ops only---self promotion---(facebook style)

Uniformed officials--Police pointing--and the rest.

28 Millionth visitor gets an airline ticket and a smart phone???

I would have said, oh no thanks and walked away, and then gauge there reactions

Just may be the case they could spell correctly as well !

Has everyone noticed it is NEVER someone that has just done his visa run.

Everything here is done for Photo ops only---self promotion---(facebook style)

Uniformed officials--Police pointing--and the rest.

Uniformed officials--Police pointing--and the rest.

I imagine the police officer is just a little miffed his face was not in the picture at such an important presentation.

Thailand's tourism council had forecasted 30.3 million visitors this year following the Shrine bombing. Now TAT is forecasting 28.8 million for a 5% decrease. This makes their prediction of 32 million for 2016 questionable.

28 Millionth visitor gets an airline ticket and a smart phone???

I would have said, oh no thanks and walked away, and then gauge there reactions

Just may be the case they could spell correctly as well !

Imagine my happiness then when an English native don't spell correctly, then I'm in the clear when failing to do so. Not to mention the grammar...

What an amazing piece of management coordination by TAT,...

28.8m visitors per year is 78,904 per day

which is 3,287 per hour

which is 55 per minute

so nearly 1 per second .. all spread over multiple points of entry across the LOS, so to know that this guy was the 28 millionth is very reassuring. Nice to know that we are all so highly valued and counted. so carefully.

Would be interesting to know how many leave, and the difference would be the number that don't make it out alive...

28 Millionth visitor gets an airline ticket and a smart phone???

I would have said, oh no thanks and walked away, and then gauge there reactions

No way you could have been the 28 millionth, unless cousin Somchai pulled you aside at immigration and asked you to stand in for him and receive his gifts.

Strange how the "lucky numbered" winner is always flying THAI.

Actually, it would be strange if they weren't flying Thai.

How many more can they ' squeeze ' in for a New Year's Eve presentation farce ?

I think that could get at least another 5,000 onto Pattaya Beach at 7:00 in the morning. I'm sure I have seen some vacant sand. That will mean another 200 speed boat rides a day, and another 1,250 kg per day of rubbish to get rid of, and at least say 10,000 hard-earned baht into the coffers.

It must be worth it. TAT says so.

Wonder how they would treat the ten millionth expat.

With contempt, exactly what they have been doing since 1984, at the start of the first "Amazing Thailand" campaign.

I hope this Indian couple have been advised not to hire a jetski or stay in high rise buildings otherwise they might become another kind of statistic.

Its a shame the 28th million tourist wasnt an old farang on a Silver Fox tour to Pattaya

NOTE.....the 28th million tourist probably was an old farang bar monger wearing nothing but underpants and a singlet so they by-passed him and went for the better dressed Indian couple one of whom appears to be wearing cargo shorts or camo trousers.

Stay classy Thailand !

How many more can they ' squeeze ' in for a New Year's Eve presentation farce ?

Their goal is 30 million better get hoping.

at least they didn't have to pretend to solve a terrorist bombing to get their reward. Oh that's right....it wasn't terrorism, my bad.