from timeline “Open the country in full, 1 June 2022” The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) held a meeting on accepting tourists to travel to Thailand in full yesterday (23 May) to understand tourism operators in preparing together. and communicate about goals recovery trend and an overview of TAT’s marketing guidelines throughout the year 2022 to penetrate quality tourists especially during the remaining 8 months. hoping to stimulate the total income of the tourism sector to come back to claim the throne of the Thai economic hero again
Mr.Yuthasak Supasorn governorTourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said the recovery trend of foreign tourists in the month This May has continued to improve. since the governmentRelaxing travel measures to enter the Kingdom Cancel the Test & Go system. There were 367,449 actual air travelers from May 1 to 21, 2022, or an average of 20,000 per day, categorized as 367,074 non-quarantined tourists and 375 quarantined (AQ) travelers.
by tourists from the top 5 countries entering Thailand are:
1. Singapore 45,961 people
2. India 34,582 people
3. Malaysia 16,410 people
4. Vietnam 14,003 people
5. Cambodia 13,917 people
++ Low season, hoping for 5 hundred thousand people per month
From the aforementioned recovery trend, TAT revised its forecast that duringlow season 5 months from May-Sept. will haveforeign touristsnot less than 5 hundred thousand people come to Thailand per month higher than the previous target of 300,000 people per month from near-term markets such as India which does not have to be detained on the way back, includingMiddle East and countries bordering Thailand where land travel is permitted.
range sectionhigh seasonWhich corresponds to the fourth quarter from Oct. to Dec. There will be more than 1 million foreign tourists per month. from long-distance markets, both Europe and the United States. TAT hopes to see positive signals from customers in other key markets such as chinese tourists that he will start returning to Thailand at the end of this year and come in a reasonable amount from the Chinese New Year Festival of 2023 onwards
++ High chance of tourism income to recover 50%
When combined with the number of foreign tourists in the first 4 months of Jan.-Apr. with a total of 4.44 lakh people TAT estimates that the trend throughout 2022 is highly likely to reach the target of attracting 7-10 million foreign tourists to Thailand. Meanwhile, the Thai tourist market is targeting 160 million-times, generating total tourism revenue in 2022 at 1.5 trillion baht, representing a 50% recovery compared to 2019 before the COVID-19 crisis.
“TAT has set a target for the recovery of the Thai tourism sector in 2022, seeing hotels across the country have an occupancy rate of 50%, higher than the average 28%, which is a critical point that makes hotels break-even point. and to restore the load factor to not less than 70% under the recovery of passenger capacity (Capacity) of domestic flights at 50% compared to 2019. As for the average cost per trip P The target for foreign tourists to spend at 62,580 baht, during the first quarter of this year, it was found that the average spending was as high as 77,000 baht, while Thai tourists set a target of 4,100 baht.”
before continuing to recover in 2023, generating a total tourism revenue of 2.4 trillion baht, representing a recovery of 80% from 20 million foreign tourists, a 50% recovery compared to almost 40 million in 2019, and there are Thai tourists near Around the year 2019, the number of 172 million people-times
++ The Ministry of Public Health opens a forum to listen to the private tourism sector on June 16
Siripakorn Chiawsamut, TAT Deputy Governor for Marketing Communications, said: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), Ministry of Transport andMinistry of Tourism and Sports will be a dart to open an important stage Get opinions from representatives of associations or operators in the tourism sector, services, restaurants, transport, etc. It will be organized in a hybrid format. (both online and online) a total of 3 times within a month This June-July The first time will be on June 16 in Bangkok, while the second and third will be held in Nakhon Ratchasima and Suvarnabhumi respectively.
“The advantages of organizing this event It will discuss the future of the tourism and service industry together. that there are still any problems such as the collection of domestic tourism fees of foreign tourists (also known as cost of stepping on the land) at the rate of 300 baht per person, including the problem of shortage of tourism and service workers, and others.”
++ Register Thailand Pass with QR Code immediately
Conclusion of the meetingCovid-19 Situation Administration Center (CDC) On May 20, 2022, regarding the adjustment of disease prevention measures for entry into the Kingdom starting from June 1, 2022 onwards, stated that travelers who were not vaccinated or not fully vaccinated, can show Pro-ATK or RT-PCR within 72 hours prior to travel, cancel quarantine in the unvaccinated group or incomplete vaccinations and no test results Upon arrival, you can check Pro-ATK upon arrival at the airport.
specifically “Foreign Travelers” must also enter the information in the systemThailand Pass stay butFormat for convenience This includes remaining 3 parts of necessary information: vaccine or test results, insurance, and passport information. A QR Code will be issued immediately upon completion of registration. without waiting for approval And airlines check foreign documents that appear on the QR Code page (vaccination or laboratory results) and issue a boarding pass (Boarding Pass).
In addition, the CCA has also adjusted the management guidelines.High-risk close contacts (HRC : High Risk Contact) no need to detain by giving self-observation for 10 days with additional tourism pilot areas (Blue area) and allow the opening of establishments innight economy such as Service place, entertainment place, pub, bar, karaoke Etc., starting June 1, opening no later than 24.00 and selling-consumption of alcoholic beverages no later than 24.00.
++ Watch out for “small pox” epidemic in Europe.
Mr. Yuthasak, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, added that The spread of infectionmonkey poxinEurope After the quarantine has been announced in some countries, such as Belgium, the infected people are required to be quarantined for 21 days, the TAT will have to closely monitor the matter. especially measures from the Ministry of Public Health However, I still didn’t want to panic too much. Because the nature of the infection is not easily infected. must be a close contact As far as we know, there is no outbreak of monkey pox in Thailand. But still have to be careful in this section.