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VISITOR
ARRIVALS TO THAILAND TOTAL 10.06 MILLION
Visitor arrivals to
Thailand have crossed the ten million mark for the first time in 2001.
Inspite of the global tourism downturn caused by the Sept incident in
the United States, Thailand recorded arrivals of 10,061,950 visitors,
up by 5.82% over 2000.
Acting Governor and Deputy Governor for Marketing Mrs. Juthamas
Siriwan commented, “Clearly, Thailand was not as badly affected by
the incident in the US and the global tourism slowdown. I think this
is a tribute to the hard work of all the government agencies, THAI
Airways and all the airlines serving Thailand, the private sector and
all our tour operator partners abroad.”
She added, “There is no doubt that Thai tourism is playing a major
role in creating jobs, boosting foreign exchange earnings and
facilitating the distribution of income nationwide.
“We have successfully positioned ourselves as a peaceful and stable
country, backed by high service standards, great tourism products and
very good value for money. We can also expect a strong year ahead in
2002.”
The following statistical analysis of visitor arrivals in 2001 is by
country of nationality, as against country of residence, which will be
released later.
In 2001, visitors from East Asia totalled 5,786,403 (market share of
57.51%), Europe 2,508,566 (24.93%), the Americas 682,995 (6.79%),
South Asia 350,874 (3.49%), Oceania 420,551 (4.18%), the Middle East
215,148 (2.14%) and Africa 97,413 (0.96%).
Visitor arrivals declined in both September and October after the
incident. October’s figure fell to the lowest number of visitors
(720,247), due to a sharp decline in arrivals from almost all major
markets.
However, arrivals picked up again quickly in November (852,880) and
December (1,044,636), the first time that Thailand has crossed the
one-million arrivals mark in a month.
East Asia
-- Visitor arrivals from East Asia grew by 4.34%.
Malaysia was the best
performer with the largest market share of 11.79% (or 1.19 million
visitors). A growth rate of 6.67% over 2000 helped this market regain
its position as the biggest source of visitor arrivals for Thailand
after loosing its position to Japan since 1998.
Japan recorded total
arrivals of 1.18 million (a slight decline of 2.04%) or a market share
of 11.70%. It fell back to the second biggest source market for
Thailand.
China and Korean markets
grew by 6.31% and 21.58%, respectively.
Other small markets of
ASEAN neighbouring countries like Brunei, Vietnam and Philippines
showed the highest growth of 113.09%, 49.05% and 21.19%, respectively.
Singaporean visitors
declined by 5.65%.
Europe
-- Major European markets did well, resulting in an average growth of
8.98%.
The two biggest European
markets; namely UK and Germany, the fifth and ninth biggest sources of
visitors arrivals, experienced mid-level growth of 6.58% and 3.32%,
respectively.
The Scandinavian countries
of Norway and Sweden grew by a solid 36.58% and 58.37%, respectively.
Denmark had a much lower growth of 5.28%.
Visitors from newer markets
like Russia and East Europe also grew by 17.39% and 14.63%,
respectively, albeit on a small base of visitors.
Austria, France and Italy
were the only three countries with a reduced growth rate of 3.57%,
2.04% and 8.24%.
The Americas
-- Visitor arrivals from the Americas showed a slight growth of 2.97%.
The US was the eighth
biggest source market for Thailand. American visitors were badly
affected by Sept 11 but still managed to grow slightly by 1.88%.
Canadian visitors to
Thailand grew 7.54%.
South Asia --
Visitor arrivals from South Asia declined slightly by 0.32%.
India, which was the
biggest source of visitors in South Asia, experienced a low-level
growth of 2.52% while Bangladesh showed the highest growth of 10.58%.
Visitors from Pakistan and
Sri Lanka dropped by 25.22% and 0.04%, respectively.
Oceania
-- Visitor arrivals from Oceania did well with a stronger average
growth of 11.03%.
Arrivals from Australia and
New Zealand showed growths of 11.38% and 9.47%, respectively.
Middle East --
Visitors from Middle East grew strongly by 17.95%.
All major Middle East
markets significantly grew, especially Israel (20.77%), Saudi Arabia
(15.33%) and Kuwait (10.74%).
The UAE grew slightly by
2.75%.
Africa
-- Visitor arrivals from Africa grew strongly by 15.30%.
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