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Initial Tourist figures for Pattaya released by the Tourism Authority of Thailand.


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Initial Tourist figures for Pattaya released by the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

 

On Wednesday Morning, we spoke with Khun Akarawit, the Deputy Director of the local Tourism Authority of Thailand Office located half-way up the Pratamnuk Hill to discuss the state of the tourism industry here in Pattaya. He began by telling us that the official figures indicate an increase in Tourism so far this year of 11.5% compared to last year. This includes data from January to 15th December 2007. He also mentioned that he is encouraged by the tourist numbers over the festive season and expects numbers to be slightly higher than last year. He is slightly disappointed and expected higher tourist numbers over this festive season and believes that the General Election and continuing violence in the South and the potential for a spread of the violence to other parts of Thailand may be the cause.

 

 

 

http://www.pattayacitynews.net/news_26_12_50_2.htm

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He also mentioned that he is encouraged by the tourist numbers over the festive season and expects numbers to be slightly higher than last year. He is slightly disappointed and expected higher tourist numbers over this festive season...

 

Glad he made that clear :Chokdee3::unsure:

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The total numbers are not the only important factor. IMO the more important factors is how long they stay for and how much they spend. What is better 10 people staying 1 day and spending 3000 Baht each or 1 person staying 10 days and spending 50000 Baht? At the moment I suspect the higher numbers are due to the first option.

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But 10 people staying help keeps 10 hotels (rough example) working, while one hotel gets the big-spender.

 

Bottom-line notwithstanding, it sounds like they were hoping to count bodies over the harder-to-count total baht spent.

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