News Forum - New Year glass half-empty for TAT due to Omicron variant

[Thaiger]

The normally optimistic Tourism Authority of Thailand is feeling slightly more downbeat amid concerns about a potential Omicron outbreak. TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn says the threat of another Covid-19 outbreak is affecting travel sentiment. According to a Bangkok Post report, he expects New Year travel to generate just 8.04 billion baht in domestic tourism revenue. “Concerns over a possible outbreak of the new Omicron variant have affected local tourists’ plans for the New Year holiday, but younger generations continue to travel as they have confidence in preventive measures.” The TAT predicts that reduced spending in the period from December 31 […]

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[AlexPTY]

TAT glass is always 500% full

[Lawyers_Guns_and_Money]

At most it would have been only a shot glass worth of tourists.

[HolyCowCm]

Their glass will be 5000% full over full in the lack of hosptial beds anbd treatment for the infected caused by their wrong decisions.

[DiJoDavO]

If the glass is half empty thanks to Omicron, I wonder what it looks like if there's a real super deadly pandemic.