News Forum - Chinese New Year uptick in BKK arrivals, but mostly domestic

[Thaiger]

More than 450,000 travellers will going through the turnstiles at Bangkok’s main airport Suvarnabhumi between January 26 and February 7, including the annual Chinese New Year celebrations. But they’re not all from overseas, indeed the majority, some 349,000 travellers, are domestic. The airport’s GM reports that 115,931 international travellers will be travelling through BKK during the 14 day period. That’s a 37% jump in flights when compared to the same time last year. Whilst the uptick of travellers is a welcome shot in the arm for Thailand’s tourist industry, pre-Covid the numbers of international travellers would have averaged 1,523,000 arrivals […]

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[Stonker]

It's not 100% clear from this or the original Bangkok Post article, so I hope I'm corrected if I'm wrong, but these figures appear to be departures over the fortnight as well as arrivals.