The private sector believes that the election will not affect tourism. Hope to see a clear policy – help reduce business costs
Mr. Teerayut Chirathivat Chief Executive Officer Centara Hotels and Resorts revealed that in the event of an upcoming election, Assessed from past pictures considered that it should not have an impact on the Thai tourism sector Because even with a new government coming in But the main policies related to the tourism sector should continue to focus on tourism. by the upcoming election As a business person, I expect to see a continuous and clear policy. including costs in various fields How can it be controlled, such as land and building taxes? that if it can help reduce the burden of entrepreneurs in the business sector It will help support more business. Which here is not only for the company. But there are echoes from various entrepreneurs. come out continuously including policies to drive the tourism sector through encouraging travel to travel in Thailand and organizing seminars in order to continually increase domestic circulation spending which in the past during the election There will be more spending. which is good for the food business of the Company As for the hotel business, it doesn’t have much impact.
Mr. Thirayuth said that we are about to enter the tourist season (high season) into the low season (low season). In the past, it was estimated that the government had quite good measures to stimulate the domestic tourism sector. Especially the project We travel together in the past phases 1-4 and the 5th phase that is about to start. But the preliminary estimate is that the implementation time is quite too short. Including the time to do the project that starts to stay on March 10, but in fact, if the project can start in the low season This July should be better because during this April. Considered to be the period when foreign tourists come to travel. and Thai people traveling But after the Songkran festival has entered the low season Thai people will travel less. including foreigners Thus, if starting the project during May-July will help support the distribution of travel throughout the year not concentrated in any month only
Mr. Teerayut said that for the growth trend of the foreign market, traveling in Thailand. It is estimated that in the next 5 years, there will be an increase of 80 million foreign tourists visiting Thailand. without wanting to focus on the number but to focus more on quality tourists because when a large number of The nature and environment that cost tourism will be affected more. If you look at it nowadays, there are still many factors that are not ready, such as roads, including if there are more foreigners coming in. should not be concentrated in only 6-7 major cities but should be more widely distributed in secondary cities as well
“There are 3 challenging factors affecting business operations in 2023: 1. The epidemic hopes that there will not be a new outbreak. 2. Conflict in geopolitical science which are still uncertain, such as the Russian-Ukrainian war and 3. inflation and a gradual increase in interest rates to curb inflation In the first quarter of 2023, which is the high season There will be foreign tourists in Europe and the United States coming in the top 5, but in the next period it may slow down. But there will be Asian countries to replace such as South Korea, India, Malaysia and Singapore, but because of the few days of residence in Thailand Compared to Europe, the United States, on average, stays for about 10 days. We hope that these obstacles will take time to ease at least one year from now, ”said Thirayut.