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TAT upgrades tourist arrivals forecast

Foreign tourist arrivals at Suvarnabhumi airport on May 1, following the scrapping of the RT-PCR test requirement on arrival for vaccinated travellers.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has readjusted its estimate for foreign arrivals this year after seeing the target of 1 million visitors per month come earlier than expected.

The monthly estimate for June bookings surpassed 1 million on May 12, the first time in two years the country has reached that milestone, attributed to the end of compulsory RT-PCR testing on May 1.

The TAT previously forecast Thailand would have 1 million travellers per month from October to December this year, which is the high season, but the latest result prompted the agency to project a…

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