No need Taylor Swift. Thailand welcomes 12M tourists in 4 months

[meaninglesslife]

SUNDAY, MAY 05, 2024

Thailand has welcomed more than 12 million foreign tourists during the first four months of this year, the Tourism Authority of Thailand announced on Sunday.​

The TAT said 12,127,447 foreign tourists entered Thailand from January 1 to April 30, an increase of 142.87% from the same period last year.
According to the TAT, the top 10 nationals that visited Thailand during the first four months were:

- 2,351,909 Chinese
- 1,569,856 Malaysians
- 767,210 Russians
- 679,481 South Koreans
- 643,587 Indians
- 403,107 Laotians
- 375,224 Germans
- 368,564 UK tourists
- 358,990 Taiwanese
- 355,452 US citizens

The TAT said it expected some 8.27 million foreign tourist would enter Thailand in the second quarter from April to June and the number of arrivals would rise 29% from the same period of last year.
They are expected to generate some 367.9 billion baht in revenue for the country, rising 25% from the same period last year, the TAT added.

 

[ChinaCommunistSG]

How about Singaporeans ?

 

[A Singaporean]

How about Singaporeans ?

Sorry Thailand does not count retards coming into the cuntry as they do not help the economy but a liability.

 

[red amoeba]

Bangkok better start ramping up the sabai sabai providers. Demand will soar.

 

[Sideswipe]

Chinese power. 20% of Thailand tourists. they apparently spent a lot overseas unlike the cheapskate angmoh backpackers.

 

[syed putra]

Current Thai PM abolished need to fill In immigration forms for Malaysians crossing Thai border. The numbers of visitors increased 4x. I would imagine many kampung people could not understand English deterred them from going to Thailand previously.

 

[ChinaCommunistSG]

They don’t need Josephine Teo

 

[Cottonmouth]

They don’t need Josephine Teo

Josephine Teo is rubbish.