News Forum - Thailand News Today | Raid finds all monks on drugs in Phetchabun temple

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Despite conflicting optimistic predictions, the Tourism Authority of Thailand is warning that Thai tourism may take a sharp downturn next year. While international travellers are flocking to Thailand now, industry experts fear that it may be a flood of pent-up demand and, by next year, all those who waited through the whole pandemic to get to Thailand will have already booked and taken their trips. The TAT Governor Yuthasak Supasorn explained that, for nearly three years, people could not travel and take holidays due to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. Once Thailand began reopening, many overly eager people raced to enter the […]

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Did anyone other than Thai tourism believe that everything would instantly return to pre covid?

Economies have been devastated not only by Covid for some 2 years, but the Uk/Russia war is hurting the world on top of it with a lot of countries going into recession. 

Everyday there are thousands being thrown out of work overnight and those are just the ones we hear about.  A lot of industries are shutting up shop, (seems new building is a major concern in a lot of countries) the tourism industry is one of the first to hurt when recession hits and one of the last to return. 

Russians maybe have a separate basic motivation of wanting to see 2024 and beyond.

If you are fantasying about how to pay the electrical bill with your (hope I win) lottery winnings, holidays in Thailand just aren't on your survival list. 

Think I will stay up till midnight this New Year's Eve just to say good riddance to this Ultra Crappy year, 2022.