Tourism

Thailand Top Nation for Chinese tourists as South Korea draws fewer

The mainland sent 7.9 million people to Thailand in 2015, an annual increase of 70 percent to become the top country destination ahead of Korea

Published

5 years ago

March 16, 2016

Yuan Fang

Thailand and Japan are attracting more Chinese tourists as South Korea draws fewer.

The mainland sent 7.9 million people to Thailand in 2015, an annual increase of 70 percent to become the top country destination ahead of Korea, which had 2 percent fewer arrivals, and Japan, where visitors more than doubled to 5 million.

That one-two-three ranking continued during last month’s Chinese Spring Festival, according to preliminary data reported by the People’s Daily newspaper.

Thailand managed to attract just under 30 million international visitors in 2015, according to final figures released by the Tourism Department.

These 29,881,091 foreign arrivals represented an increase of 20.4% over the 24.81 million who visited in 2014, statistics posted on the department’s website showed.

The Thailand tourism industry has been defiantly strong despite challenges such as the Bangkok bombing at a busy central intersection last August which killed 20 and injured more than 120 people, reported Reuters.

Source: Thailand Passes Korea as Top Nation for Mainland Visitors: Chart – Bloomberg Business

Tourism

Thailand eases travel restrictions for 56 countries

Tourists from 56 countries including Australia, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States can now travel to Thailand without visas.

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1 week ago

December 18, 2020

Boris Sullivan

The Thai government is easing travel restrictions for citizens from 56 countries to help the country’s pandemic-hit tourism industry recover, but foreign visitors are still required to undergo a mandatory 14 days hotel quarantine.

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Tourism

TAT Launches “Single Journey” Tours encouraging Single people to travel domestically

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a special tourism program, the “Single Journey” promoting nine programs that are suitable for single people.

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2 weeks ago

December 16, 2020

Boris Sullivan

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) together with Thai Smile Airways, leading online travel and lifestyle platform Drive Digital, and application Tinder have launched a collection of new ‘Single Journey’ tours around Thailand specifically designed for the single traveller.

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Tourism

TAT & Locanation launch new hotel bookings platform touting “Quarantine Paradise”

One-stop solution provides foreign visitors to Thailand with world-class information and direct ASQ hotel bookings for quarantine and control convenience

Published

4 weeks ago

December 2, 2020

Boris Sullivan

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Thailand-based Locanation Company Limited jointly launch the newly-developed asq.locanation.com website under the ‘ASQ Paradise’ project to provide arriving foreign visitors with world-class information regarding standards for quarantine and control at Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) hotels located around Thailand.

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