However, the percentage growth declined slightly compared to 13.3% during the nine-month period according to unofficial data posted on the Department of Tourism’s website, yesterday.
During January to October, the Immigration Bureau recorded 12,523,594 million foreign arrivals entering the country at all checkpoints — overland, sea and air, but excluding border pass holders and expatriate Thais.
In October alone, 1,313,577 million tourist arrivals were tallied, up 8.61% over October 2010. This single digit increase pulled the year-to-date growth down by 0.51 points from 13.3% to 12.79%. Thailand needs to receive 2.78 million tourists during the last two months or an average of 1.39 million tourists per month to meet the positive year-end target of 15.34 million.
According to the data, 7,697,995 or 61.47% of tourist arrivals during the January-October period were from Asian countries. The percentage growth was 16.12% compared to 6,629,338 last year. A sub-region breakdown showed nine ASEAN countries supplied 3,485,747 arrivals, up 12.4% followed by East Asian countries (2,927, 214, +18.63%), South Asia (793,917, +19.11%) and Middle East (490,817, +24.51%).
Europe with a market share of 27.19% delivered 3,404,781 visits, an increase of 9.21%.
Although this accounted for a quarter of all tourists to Thailand, declines were registered in several source markets: Spain (-13,21%, 53,971); Ireland (-12.37%, 47,401); Finland (-6.83%, 104,441); UK (-2.68%, 652,920); Netherlands (-2.13%, 159,533); Italy (-1.6%, 130,808) and Sweden (-0.48%, 251,789).
Growth in the Americas, which has a market share of 5.39%, was marginal at 0.12% supplying 675,588 visits in 10 months. Oceania with a 5.14% share delivered 644,310 (88.19% from Australia), increasing 8.31%. Africa accounted for 0.81% of market share while supplying 101,220 trips, an increase of 16.97%.
By country markets, at the close of October, the top 10 suppliers remain unchanged with Malaysia leading. From January to October, 1,571,009 Malaysians came to Thailand, a growth of 15.58% followed by China (885,301, +49.85%), Japan (802,279, -2.49%), UK (652,9290, -2.68%), Korea (646,823, +33.14%), India (604,942, +22.39%), Australia (568,190, +9.25%), Laos (526,383, -3.76%), USA (488,748, -1.63%) and Germany (477,260, +8.92%).
In the outstanding growth category, Russian tourists led the field — 12th largest single country supplier, +86.57% (433,282).
Other countries, or territories, delivering substantial growth rates above 25% included: Middle East’s Others besides Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and U.A.E (244,026, +38.98%); South Africa (43,127, 36.46%); Cambodia (110,932, +36.19%); Indonesia (226,742, +35.41%); Argentina (8,161, +35%); U.A.E (89,394, +27.37%); Oceania’s Others besides Australia and New Zealand (2,300, +26.23%); Bangladesh (54,140, +25.69%); East Europe, +20.46% (161,226) and the Americas’ Others beside the US, Canada, Argentina and Brazil (30,438, +20.07%).
Declining markets apart those identified, earlier in the report, were: Saudi Arabia (7,150, -21.78%); Brunei (5,437, -9.35%); Pakistan (52,678, -0.28%) and Canada
(132,231, -0.17%).
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2010/11/arrivals-into-thailand-reach-12-5-million/
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