webfact Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Long weekend generates B300mn for Phuket, says TAT By The Phuket News Tourists take a group photo in Phuket Town over the weekend. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub PHUKET: Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Phuket Office Director Nanthasiri Ronnasiri has announced that the long weekend from last Thursday through to yesterday (Nov 19-22) has delivered a welcome boost to the island’s economy. In total 53,970 tourists had come to Phuket over the four days, generating an estimated B300 million in revenues, Ms Nanthasiri said. Of note, the figures given for the weekend indicate that the average expenditure per person was about B5,558. Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/long-weekend-generates-b300mn-for-phuket-says-tat-78068.php -- © Copyright Phuket News 2020-11-23 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pottinger Posted November 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 23, 2020 The figures seem compiled astonishingly fast.... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Of course they all spent 5,558bt or the new normal months money on what you may ask ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwalt Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I call bullsh*t... Not possible. What I don't get is, why just make stuff up? Kamala had a few people for a festival, and most of those people spent quite a bit. But there weren't 60,000 people on the island. Not even close 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake Monster Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Pottinger said: The figures seem compiled astonishingly fast.... TAT must have had a direct line to the cash registers, and spent the entire night counting baht Bit like Scrooge really 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomfiddler Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 But surely the same amount of cash must be subtracted from where these "domestic tourists" came from ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohy Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said: But surely the same amount of cash must be subtracted from where these "domestic tourists" came from ???? Now you have spoilt everything! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohy Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Pottinger said: The figures seem compiled astonishingly fast.... It is compared to their election vote counting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Amazing, to come up with these facts in a day.............? This was on FB this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psimbo Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 TAT is a Brit word for carp goods. Quite appropriate that they have this acronym as they are normally spouting carp. I wouldn't believe a word they publish. Saying that though the airport was significantly busier when I flew out on Friday and flew back today. Sorry that I'm not able to placate the naysayers on here as I did not do an individual head counts (which I could have done in July) but I reckon there were probably over 300 people (at least) in the departure lounge going out. Bkk Airways, and the AA flight that arrived the same time as us, were not far off full this afternoon, as was the Vietjet flight. Domestic arrivals was pretty busy. Despite the normal naysayers belittling it domestic tourism IS increasing- there was a hell of a lot of traffic on the way to Patts on Friday afternoon as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 A post using a trolling image has been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmitch Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I wonder how they count the 40% hotel discounts, the associated food vouchers and the 50/50? Is the 5,000 per person really only 3,000 baht in actual cash and 2,000 baht from the Government? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodyholly Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Can the various municipalities come up with other attractions other than food festivals? The festivals may succeed in attracting a few customers to the beaches for cheap food, but the bigger impact is they take away customers from the few existing restaurants that are struggling to survive. Restaurants employ locals, buy produce locally, pay rents, pay taxes and pay utilities. Food festivals offer municipalities a short term supply of small amounts of cash from stall rental only. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStar Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 (edited) 20 hours ago, Jwalt said: I call bullsh*t... Not possible. What I don't get is, why just make stuff up? Kamala had a few people for a festival, and most of those people spent quite a bit. But there weren't 60,000 people on the island. Not even close You've confused "spent" with "income generated." Common mistake here used for bashing TAT, so we see it throughout this thread. Edited November 24, 2020 by BigStar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 1 hour ago, bloodyholly said: Can the various municipalities come up with other attractions other than food festivals? The festivals may succeed in attracting a few customers to the beaches for cheap food, but the bigger impact is they take away customers from the few existing restaurants that are struggling to survive. Restaurants employ locals, buy produce locally, pay rents, pay taxes and pay utilities. Food festivals offer municipalities a short term supply of small amounts of cash from stall rental only. Thats exactly what happened this weekend in Rawai where a million food stalls descended on Rawai beach front I drove along the front around 5pm and it was quiet but absolutely nowhere to park and I thought then these restaurants are going to do no business from what I could see these food stalls had no seating areas, The staff in Amazon confirmed my thoughts people thought they could bring food from the beach and use Amazon's tables and chairs I see they had put signs up "For Amazon Customers Only" so I think every other place along the front suffered, That was really bad planning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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