Tourism
Tourism Council of Thailand : confidence index drops 8%
Tourism Council of Thailand reported, Wednesday, its tourism confidence index for April to June 2012 dropped eight points to 92. Research was compared to a normal confidence benchmark of 100. The index gained data from 600 tour agencies.

Tourism Council of Thailand reported, Wednesday, its tourism confidence index for April to June 2012 dropped eight points to 92. Research was compared to a normal confidence benchmark of 100. The index gained data from 600 tour agencies.
The TCT index showed that 64% of interviewed tour agencies said they were still worried about the country’s economy, while 49% said the rising cost of products had impacted on travel in the second quarter, which is traditionally the low-season for inbound market.
Moreover, 81% of those interviewed said rising prices and a higher cost of living was having a negative impact on business; 39% of the tour agencies said they had made adjustments.
Of the travel operators who adjusted operations, 49% increased prices by 10% to 30%, while 40% of them laid off staff.
But 47% of all agents interviewed believed the government’s tourism policy would encourage tourists to travel, while 42% said the government should build a positive image for the country’s tourism industry. Other suggestions: 46% said the private sector should raise awareness; 40% advised local communities to take part in tourism and 37% said they needed tourism operators to be more united.
Tourism
Interprovincial travel in Thailand amid COVID-19 controls
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) is suspending 57 additional train services from 26 January, 2021, as part of the nationwide effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These include ordinary trains, local trains, and suburban trains in the North (13 routes), Northeast (18 routes), South (12 routes), and East (14 routes).

This update includes the latest announcement from the State Railway of Thailand regarding the suspension of 57 additional train services from 26 January, 2021.
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TAT launches virtual tours to 4 top destinations in Thailand
Once inside an attraction, visitors can move around using the cursor, while some of the attractions have information about its historical background or details of items on display in both English and Thai.

Bangkok, 25 January, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a virtual reality tour of top attractions in four of Thailand’s leading tourism destinations comprising Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, and Surat Thani.
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Wish you were here: how the pandemic harmed tourism-dependent economies
Before COVID-19, travel and tourism had become one of the most important sectors in the world economy, accounting for 10 percent of global GDP and more than 320 million jobs worldwide.

In 1950, at the dawn of the jet age, just 25 million people took foreign trips. By 2019, that number had reached 1.5 billion, and the travel and tourism sector had grown to almost too-big-to-fail proportions for many economies.
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