TAT latest: Tourism set for 9% rise in third quarter - yearly expectations to be met

[webfact]

TAT latest: Tourism set for 9% rise in third quarter - yearly expectations to be met

 

 

The head of the Tourism Authority of Thailand has painted a very rosy picture about foreign and domestic tourism in Thailand. 

 

This after operators on the ground and business leaders pointed to a 30% fall in low season tourism, notes Thaivisa. 

 

The message was clear - forget the doom and gloom - it's still boom! At least according to Yuthasak Suphasorn, the TAT chief.

 

He said that trends showed that Thai and foreign tourists would be spending a whopping 820 billion baht in the third quarter (July to September) - 9% up on the same period last year. 

 

Some 9.7 million foreigners were expected to visit - up 7%. Their spending of 530 billion would represent an 11% increase on last year. 

 

The domestic market would see a 6% rise in tourists and a five per cent increase in revenues. 

 

This all pointed to a fourth quarter rise that would enable the TAT to post figures at year's end that met their annual targets. 

 

Reports recently suggested that tourism in places like Phuket, Pattaya and Chiang Mai was 30% down on last year. 

 

Daily News published the latest figures from the TAT with no word that they had challenged the chief on the figures in the light of conflicting assessments on the ground, notes Thaivisa.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[davehowden]

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[Oziex1]

Well if the numbers aren't on the rise, it's your job Suphasorn. 

 

Face, Face, Face!

[londonthai]

in June there was only 0.8% increase on last year, so how be possible 7% increase in July and the next 2 months? September was always the least busy month of year because of the pick of the rainy season and possible floods

[Sonhia]

What will the next report announce?

No tourists? Some tourists? Many tourists? Tourists have had enough?

 

[darksidedog]

From 30% down to 9% up? Wow! That's a truly amazing pack of lies even for TAT.

That would be the greatest recovery since Lazarus.

 

[akampa]

This piece of Tat from TAT  should be trashed.

[Just1Voice]

I want some of whatever they are smoking!

[Sticky Wicket]

[RotBenz8888]

11 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said that trends showed that Thai and foreign tourists would be spending a whopping 820 billion baht in the third quarter (July to September) - 9% up on the same period last year

The only trend I see is TAT getting more delusional by the day.

[losworld]

1 minute ago, Just1Voice said:

I want some of whatever they are smoking!

better to have whatever they are skimming then you don't need to be smoking:)

[ThreeEyedRaven]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

This all pointed to a fourth quarter rise that would enable the TAT to post figures at year's end that met their annual targets. 

I have no doubt whatsoever that TAT will show us the figures at the end of the year, showing that they have exceeded expectations. The only problem being of course that they will be totally fabricated.

[Sticky Wicket]

It's a little known fact that AMAZING is an anagram of MASSIVE LIES

[worgeordie]

Where are TAT,luring, touting ,all these extra tourists from.....

regards Worgeordie

[sammieuk1]

This rise includes the 13 just deported from swampy for having no dosh????

[BestB]

11 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

From 30% down to 9% up? Wow! That's a truly amazing pack of lies even for TAT.

 

You just do not understand thai mathematics ????

 

30% down to 9% up really means 21% down but looks much better when someone says 9% up????

[PatOngo]

I think he is onto something here, when I looked into MY crystal ball I saw ALL ministers wealth increasing by more than 9% in the third quarter!

 

 

 

[sammieuk1]

The objective of job justification has been met with a smokescreen of utter crap LOS????

[Kenny202]

My 3yo son tells better fibs than the Thais. LIELAND. I reckon the tourist ship has sailed and it aint coming back

[marcusarelus]

1 minute ago, Kenny202 said:

My 3yo son tells better fibs than the Thais. LIELAND. I reckon the tourist ship has sailed and it aint coming back

Outside of your anti Thai bias do you have any factual information that would lead to your conclusion or do you think TV repetition somehow makes it true.  

[ezzra]

This what happen where there is no accountabilities to what anyone or anybody says now days as long as it sound good, i have grown wary and cautious of such announcements, da hell with the truth or logice, we're here to give uplifting news so what if we massage and bend and stretch the figures a bit ( a lot)...

[JamJar]

10 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Outside of your anti Thai bias do you have any factual information that would lead to your conclusion or do you think TV repetition somehow makes it true.  

 

It is contained within the article. He stated that "trends showed...."

Which trends would those be?

 

It not something new. he said much the same earlier this month; https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/tourism/tat-governor-predicts-10-revenue-rise-in-2020

 

...again without pointing to the data.

[nong38]

I also have all the winning lottery tickets for the rest of the year.

[bert bloggs]

43 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

This rise includes the 13 just deported from swampy for having no dosh????

no they will be included as they did actually set foot in Thailand ,even if it was only the airport

[baboon]

1 hour ago, londonthai said:

in June there was only 0.8% increase on last year, so how be possible 7% increase in July and the next 2 months? September was always the least busy month of year because of the pick of the rainy season and possible floods

7% of 0.8%, perhaps? That's 0.00056% extra, which is doable...

[mania]

[wotsdermatter]

There has been a mistake everytime the banner reads "AMAZING THAILAND" maybe due to poor proofreading.  It should read: A MAZE IN THAILAND.

'NUF SED.

 

 

[soalbundy]

and if there are no increases, well TAT has other numbers they can use

[spidermike007]

Yuthasak Suphasorn, the TAT chief is a big liar. He would not know the truth if it bit him on the ankles. As I said in a related post: The "scary" reality for Thailand, is that the neighbors are making a real effort, improving, progressing, and creating a better environment for tourism. While here in Thailand, the environment is one of stagnation, regression, a total lack of vision, xenophobia, fear of foreigners, confused and muddled visa policy, and a baht that is far stronger than it needs to be, should be, or deserves to be. 

 

No effort is being made to address tourist safety, or public safety in general. No effort is being made to address traffic safety and the horrendous amount of bus, mini-van, car, truck, and motorbike accidents on the roads, or to improve the highway patrol, or even get those incompetent clowns to patrol the highways, and pull people over for reckless driving. No effort is being made to address the understaffed immigration counters at DM, or to tackle corruption on the part of the RTP franchisees. Quite the opposite. They are being deliberately protected. No effort is being made to address the myriad of environmental issues Thailand faces, whether it be the water quality, the air quality, the burning by farmers, the plastic epidemic, the extreme lack of trash cans throughout the nation, and a vast host of other issues, including any effort to reform the tourism ministry, separate it from the sports ministry (hair brained to the extreme), or improve the TAT. Nothing. 

 

The army is doing nothing, to benefit the people, or tourists. Absolutely nothing. Perhaps even less than zero. Perhaps the name should be changed from the Thai Army to the Nothing men. Of course tourism is dropping. Why would it not be dropping? 

[ianezy0]

OK, enough of this. I am personally going to go around Pattaya today and count all the tourists. If others can do the same in other regions then we will get together with a calculator and get some real totals