Thailand earned 2 trillion baht in tourism revenue last year

BANGKOK, 8 January 2016 (NNT)-Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to raise tourists’ confidence of their trip to Thailand by setting up a one-stop service center.

Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul reported to the Cabinet meeting that tourism generated 2 trillion baht in revenue to the country last year. The figure was higher than what the ministry had expected.

The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha who stressed the need to ensure tourists’ safety, promote locally made products and set up the one stop service to cater to all tourists’ needs.

Minister Kobkarn said the Ministry also met a success in introducing a traditional tourism concept to foreign visitors through the “12 cities to visit” campaign. The revenue increased on an average of 13% compared to the year earlier. The tourists’ spending increased to 5,050 baht per day per person from previously 4,500 baht.

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports will launch a similar campaign called 12 cities to visit plus. More tourist attractions within the vicinity of the 12 cities will be introduced in an attempt to increase their popularity.


-- NNT 2016-01-08

My those number are out quick.

Almost as quickly as the Chinese production figures.

I think that "earned" could possibly be the wrong choice of word here.

The tourism revenue numbers are pure fiction - impossible to know and impossible for anyone to check. This comes from the Minister that counts all arrivals as tourists.

Lol

Would be nice if they spent a tiny fraction on that to improve infrastructure: garbage bins, clean beaches, sidewalks a bit less like running a gauntlet....

no, it was 2 trillion baht last week

Whats a one stop tourist centre? Where you get your legover, bite to eat, get pissed, then battered by a ladyboy and scammed in a tuk tuk.

Oh yes all under one roof,........Pattaya!

Well knock me down with a feather, this is very impressive figures if they are accurate. Singapore with 15M tourists earned about 600B and Malaysia with about the same tourist numbers earned about 250B. In fact, this is too good to be true numbers even if our tourist arrivals more than double these peer countries. Massive massaging.

Wonder how many of these tourists felt they got value for their

money.they should do a survey at departure lounges in all Thai

Airports,and see how they could improve things.

regards Worgeordie

I find that very hard to believe.

Wow!!! That's more than twice as much as Ying screwed the country out of with rice pledging scheme alone.

Really puts it in perspective.

....does lying on one's back constitute 'earning'....

...of course they do not factor in the tax-free overcharging .......etc.......

....does lying on one's back constitute 'earning'....

...of course they do not factor in the tax-free overcharging .......etc.......

Ahhh, spoken like a true knowledge filled gentleman.

You must have wonderful companions in your dreamy life.

All that money generated through tourism but zero gets put back in to improve tourism infrastructure.

All take and no give.

As a tourist, I have never asked myself the question, "Where is the one-stop service center for tourists?"

In fact, I hate being "guided" to the same damn 12 attractions as every other tourist. My wife and I just spent 9 days in Phuket. I refused to pay any attention to the tourism booths spaced apart approximately every 20 meters on every Soi and alley.

We rented a scooter, and I turned on Google maps. It was a blast navigating a Honda Click up the back way to the Big Buddha on the same rutted dirt roads as the ATVs. My wife got a free ATV ride as well, as her confidence in my moto-crossing skills was a bit lacking.

Just a pity that tourists are way down the list of importance considering just how much Thailand receives from them

Edited January 8, 201610 yr by gandalf12

The tourism revenue numbers are pure fiction - impossible to know and impossible for anyone to check. This comes from the Minister that counts all arrivals as tourists.

And counts not the substantial sum of grey and black money transferring hands in those (cough cough) Massage shops

Presume they multiplied the number of arrivals with a figure picked out of the air, added several zeros and thus arrived at the figure? Or maybe added all the remittances from abroad by the teeraks?

Edited January 8, 201610 yr by MaiChai

Be ok if they ever put any of the profits back in.

use this money to pay english teachers!!!!

i only made 11 baht all last year!!!!

and crack down on bad drivers!!!

hmmm 2 Trillion Baht is approx. 58 Billion USD?

If we believe that the Thai GNP is approx. 404 Billion USD http://data.worldbank.org/country/thailand

then it seems that official Tourism industry, not counting the grey areas mentioned by other posters, is responsible for 14 per cent of Thai GNP

and still not worth improvement and investment?

My those number are out quick.

Almost as quickly as the Chinese production figures.

or DNA tests done in Thailand.

If I've done the sums right..based on 30 million visitors !!, that's about average of just under £1260 pounds per visitor...that' sounds very high as many of the arrivals will be in and out and spend hardly anything in the Kingdom....any thoughts ??

Another work of fiction.

I seem to remember from past articles that this figures also includes expenditure from domestic tourism, though how they can actually measure this still surprises me.

In fact how can any country achieve a vaguely accurate figure of how much tourists spend? It must be almost total guesswork based upon arrival numbers, days spent in the Kingdom and maybe statistics from surveys and from the major hotel associations.

Any economists out there with any real ideas?

Thailand earned 2 trillion baht in tourism revenue last year

Dear Thai economic experts. May I suggest a Google search:

Revenue

Profit

Not same same.....................