New figures from SiteMinder, Meituan and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) reveal that over 1.3 million of the 11 million-plus international travellers to Thailand have this year arrived from China. The figures, which suggest that Chinese travellers could be on track to constitute a projected one-fifth of all international travellers to Thailand by year’s end, were unveiled at the ‘Amazing Thailand Sailing with Meituan’ event in Bangkok.
These latest findings follow the TAT’s projection that international arrivals to Thailand will reach 25 million this year, which is more than double the number of arrivals in 2022. The TAT’s projection complements data from SiteMinder, the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, which found that weekly reservations made by Chinese travellers to the company’s Thai hotel customers have increased by 79 percent since the start…
