News Forum - Pattaya tourism officials pin hopes on proposed travel bubble with India

[Thaiger]

Pattaya is looking to India to salvage what’s left of tourism during the forthcoming low season, as Thailand plans a travel bubble with the South Asian nation. According to a Bangkok Post report, the Tourism Authority of Thailand is preparing a marketing plan targeting would-be visitors from India. The country is one of the few short-haul markets that doesn’t require its citizens to quarantine on their return from overseas. Thanet Supornsahasrungsi from the Chon Buri Tourism Council is hopeful that pent-up demand will boost visitor numbers, but says this will depend on how many airlines resume flights between both countries. […]

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[Grumpish]

In addition, new registrations under the revamped Test & Go entry scheme are lower than when the scheme first launched last year. Thanet believes the drop is due to high season coming to an end soon, but the revised scheme now includes a second PCR test on day 5, a factor many critics say will deter would-be visitors.

Which in TAT-speak translates as "the Test & Go (pay) V2 scheme has gone down like a lead balloon".

[Fanta]

TAT does comedy with such a straight face. 

[Poolie]

It seems that being optimistic and expectant is somehow a crime these days. Shame.

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

44 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

The TAT says it plans to attract at least 500,000 Indian visitors

Do these Indian people have any say?

[Pinetree]

11 minutes ago, Grumpish said:

the drop is due to high season coming to an end soon

There hasn't been a 'high season' in LOS for years, maybe as many as 10 to 12 years.  I wish they would drop that stupid irrelevant phrase. 

[Pinetree]

Spend per visitor is not high with Asian tourists. Its the West that brings the cash. 

[Poolie]

11 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

Spend per visitor is not high with Asian tourists. Its the West that brings the cash. 

It's high enough, all things considered. Asians dont spend everything on beer and floosies.

[Ksmui]

[Jason]

I was reading along and then suddenly saw that magic acronym TAT......I stopped reading....

[Noble_Design]

4 hours ago, Pinetree said:

Spend per visitor is not high with Asian tourists. Its the West that brings the cash. 

 

TAT's data on tourists spending disagrees with you:

https://www.mots.go.th/mots_en/News-link.php?nid=3627

https://www.mots.go.th/mots_en/more_news_new.php?cid=330&page=4

 

[Poolie]

Yeah, but don't let facts get in the way!!

Give us prejudice, it's what we're conditioned for!!

[Pinetree]

7 minutes ago, Noble_Design said:

TAT's data on tourists spending disagrees with you:

https://www.mots.go.th/mots_en/News-link.php?nid=3627

https://www.mots.go.th/mots_en/more_news_new.php?cid=330&page=4

These stats are a matter of numbers, you need to add Europe and the Americas, as well as also  the Mid East to get a comparison to purely Asian tourists. If you do that ,my comment stands. 

[Pinetree]

2 minutes ago, Poolie said:

Yeah, but don't let facts get in the way!!

Give us prejudice, it's what we're conditioned for!!

Read the  stats , you need to add all the none Asian numbers to get a clear comparison to just Asian tourists. Its got nothing to do with prejudice, except in your head. 

[Soidog]

4 hours ago, Poolie said:

It seems that being optimistic and expectant is somehow a crime these days. Shame.

Almost as criminal as incompetence, ignorance and ability to solve problems in the very space you are entrusted to promote. In other words, TAT

[Grumpish]

23 minutes ago, Noble_Design said:

TAT's data on tourists spending disagrees with you:

https://www.mots.go.th/mots_en/News-link.php?nid=3627

https://www.mots.go.th/mots_en/more_news_new.php?cid=330&page=4

We all know how reliable statistics from the TAT's parallel universe are.

[Noble_Design]

11 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

These stats are a matter of numbers, you need to add Europe and the Americas, as well as also  the Mid East to get a comparison to purely Asian tourists. If you do that ,my comment stands. 

Ok let me do some Mathematics:

East Asia (33B) + South Asia (2.7B) = 35.7B

Europe (14.4B) + the Americas (3.5B) + Oceania (2.1B) = 20B

Btw, the middle East is in Asia but never mind let's lump them together with the EU+Americas+Oceania and you get 22B.

[Poolie]

33 minutes ago, Grumpish said:

We all know how reliable statistics from the TAT's parallel universe are.

So Europe and Americas tourist numbers are false? Lordy lordy, who'd have guessed?

[Brownie]

5 hours ago, DoUKnowWhoIAm said:

Do these Indian people have any say?

We're not coming! We'll just sit home & sulk

[Noble_Design]

1 hour ago, Soidog said:

Almost as criminal as incompetence, ignorance and ability to solve problems in the very space you are entrusted to promote. In other words, TAT

You mean the same TAT that oversaw the growth of Thailand's tourism from 8.6 million visitors in 1999 to almost 40 million in 2019?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?locations=TH

 

[Soidog]

8 minutes ago, Noble_Design said:

You mean the same TAT that oversaw the growth of Thailand's tourism from 8.6 million visitors in 1999 to almost 40 million in 2019?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?locations=TH

No. That was the opening of China that resulted in such a large increase in numbers. With over 1 Billion people suddenly having the freedom and new found wealth to spend on holidays and virtually on your doorstep, you’d have to have been a totally and utter failure not to capture a good percentage of that market. As you can see. Outbound tourism from China has increased by almost 100 million in the past 10 years. Even TAT could get 10-15% of that 

[Noble_Design]

16 minutes ago, Soidog said:

No. That was the opening of China that resulted in such a large increase in numbers. With over 1 Billion people suddenly having the freedom and new found wealth to spend on holidays and virtually on your doorstep, you’d have to have been a totally and utter failure not to capture a good percentage of that market. As you can see. Outbound tourism from China has increased by almost 100 million in the past 10 years. Even TAT could get 10-15% of that 

Good job to TAT for pulling the Chinese tourists to Thailand who could have otherwise go to Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Korea etc.

 

[Soidog]

2 hours ago, Noble_Design said:

Good job to TAT for pulling the Chinese tourists to Thailand who could have otherwise go to Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Korea etc.

Yea. Course it was. Have a nice day. 

[Grumpish]

3 hours ago, Poolie said:

So Europe and Americas tourist numbers are false? Lordy lordy, who'd have guessed?

Any numbers from the TAT need to be regarded with a large dose of laughter.

[Poolie]

2 minutes ago, Grumpish said:

Any numbers from the TAT need to be regarded with a large dose of laughter.

Whatever floats your boat, mate.