News Forum - Tourism boom: Thailand clocks in 14.3 million visitors

[Thaiger]

Thailand welcomed 14.3 million international tourists in the first five months of this year, generating close to 683 billion baht (US$18.7 billion) in revenue. The Tourism and Sports Minister, Sermsak Pongpanich, shared these figures, highlighting the significant contribution of foreign visitors to the country’s economy from January 1 to May 26. The top five countries … …

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[Ramanathan.P]

It is time that Thailand has to consider something like what Singapore has done for visitors lately. Everything is done upfront on-line and the tourists just pass through the check-point with the generated bar code in the applications in their handphones. That will ease the congestion and work load at the immigration check-points and also all those paperworks. No more paper works.