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Thailand is set to surpass its target of 10 million tourists by the end of the year thanks to an influx of Malaysian and Indian visitors. Thailand has welcomed over 1 million tourists from Malaysia and almost 600,000 tourists from India so far in 2022. Before the pandemic, Chinese tourists topped the list of Thailand’s foreign arrivals year in and year out. However, with China’s ceaseless Covid-zero policy, Chinese holidaymakers for the most part have been unable to return to the kingdom. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) recently revealed that 7.56 million tourists arrived in the kingdom between January […]

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You should also point out that Thailand will also miss by a mile its tourist spending goals, because tourists from Malaysia and India spend next to nothing.  Wherever you find tourists from these countries, that's where tourism is dying.  

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1 hour ago, JMJM said:

You should also point out that Thailand will also miss by a mile its tourist spending goals, because tourists from Malaysia and India spend next to nothing.  Wherever you find tourists from these countries, that's where tourism is dying.  

Any Malaysians I ever ran into in Thailand were massive spenders

 

And they basically are the whole tourist industry in the southern Hat Yai area

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14 hours ago, JMJM said:

You should also point out that Thailand will also miss by a mile its tourist spending goals, because tourists from Malaysia and India spend next to nothing.  Wherever you find tourists from these countries, that's where tourism is dying.  

And you have probably never been to an Indian wedding, which is probably 10% of the 600,000 arrivals from India.

Massive weddings spending on average 5 to 10 million baht is big money booster to the tourism industry. India is not the same India you knew of talking from a hotel owner perspective.

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