Led by a 30% increase in visitor arrivals of Chinese Tourists to Thailand and a 17% growth from Indian Tourists visiting Thailand, the Thai tourism industry has recorded total international arrivals of 13.7 million in January-April 2018, up 13.9% over the same period of 2017.

Mr. Pongpanu Svetarundra, Permanent Secretary, Thailand Ministry of Tourism and Sports announced at a press briefing that the total visitors in January-April generated an estimated 730.7 billion Baht in tourism income, up 17.55% from the same period of 2017.

In April alone, international visitor arrivals totaled 3,092,725, up by 9.38% over the same period of 2017. The top ten source markets were China, Malaysia, Lao PDR., Russia, India, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively.

Here is a summary of the key results for January – April 2018:

Overview: All regions grew well except the Middle East. Visitors from East Asia totalled 8,894,642 (+17.50%), Europe 3,006,525 (+9.75%), the Americas 599,431 (+3.55%), South Asia 607,379 (+15.18%), Oceania 296,741 (+0.26%), the Middle East 237,322 (-6.75%), and Africa 59,371 (+7.11%).

Recently Thailand had been focusing to attract more Canadian Tourists as well.

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Led by a 30% increase in visitor arrivals of Chinese Tourists to Thailand and a 17% growth from Indian Tourists visiting Thailand, the Thai tourism industry has recorded total international arrivals of 13.
Pongpanu Svetarundra, Permanent Secretary, Thailand Ministry of Tourism and Sports announced at a press briefing that the total visitors in January-April generated an estimated 730.
Here is a summary of the key results for January – April 2018.