snookieboi wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 2:48 pm Tourism was going down before the pandemic hit. Especially in Phuket.

Now with the PCR testing required and taxes, I doubt they will get the Tourists they want. Too much hassle.

Tourists will simply go elsewhere. As much as I like Thailand; it isn't the only option. Actually there are other better ones now...

With 9.29 million visitors per year, an average of 25,452 visitors per day, Phuket has the highest number of visitors per square mile per day than any other tourist destination in the world, according to a new report released by specialist travel insurance intermediary Columbus Direct.

With 5,090 tourists per square mile, Phuket outpaced in second-placed Palma de Mallorca, which recorded 2,918 visitors per square mile each day, said the report.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:20 pm

snookieboi wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 2:48 pm Tourism was going down before the pandemic hit. Especially in Phuket.

Now with the PCR testing required and taxes, I doubt they will get the Tourists they want. Too much hassle.

Tourists will simply go elsewhere. As much as I like Thailand; it isn't the only option. Actually there are other better ones now...

u jest right?

each year more an more tourists since 2006, ( 2005 was a bust cause of the tsunami)
and
nov 2019

With 9.29 million visitors per year, an average of 25,452 visitors per day, Phuket has the highest number of visitors per square mile per day than any other tourist destination in the world, according to a new report released by specialist travel insurance intermediary Columbus Direct.

With 5,090 tourists per square mile, Phuket outpaced in second-placed Palma de Mallorca, which recorded 2,918 visitors per square mile each day, said the report.

and of course the Chinese are number 1 for arrivals

Personally dont expect top see those number till high season 2025 if ever

jaynewcastle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 3:44 am Where do you think you will go instead ?, to save the extra 500bt (£11) ?

Luckily there are other good even better for some options

nemo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 3:40 pm

Luckily there are other good even better for some options

Secret?

hanno wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 3:13 pm Personally, I cannot really think of a country in the region that offers better value for money than Thailand. I'd happily pay that measly fee right now if I could go to LOS.