News Forum - Thailand tourism predicted at 80% of pre-Covid in 2023

[Thaiger]

Tourism Authority of Thailand Governor Yuthasak Supasorn just predicted that next year, revenue from tourism will hit 80% of the level it was before the Covid-19 pandemic. He made the bold prediction at the 22nd World Travel and Tourism Council Global Summit, being held in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. At that summit, the TAT was invited to take part and present its path to successfully bringing back tourism as it nears the goal of 10 million international visitors by the end of this year. The governor served as a speaker on the panel “The Recovery of Travel in […]

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[Loong]

Why do they make these predictions?

What are they based on? Guesses?

With the Baht rising again, Thailand is a less attractive destination.

Will the cost of flights be dropping anytime soon?

[Poolie]

Free publicity. The clamour from expats every time an announcement comes out is deafening.

[Soidog]

2 minutes ago, Loong said:

Why do they make these predictions?

What are they based on? Guesses?

With the Baht rising again, Thailand is a less attractive destination.

Will the cost of flights be dropping anytime soon?

Completely correct. The other big caveat for it hitting 80% is for China to open and return to normal life. Even if people are allowed to travel, they won’t leave if they have to do 10 days quarantine on returning. As China made up around 27% of Thailands tourism pre-pandemic, then this is a major market that could remain closed to TAT. If you then add the issue of global recession, incredibly high flight costs from Europe and a strengthening baht, then this isn’t even informed or intelligent guess work. It’s just positive state sponsored propaganda. 

[Ramanathan.P]

This looks like part of the election manifesto......