Travelers also flock to Songkhla
PHUKET: The yearly Phuket Vegetarian Festival that begins Monday is expected to draw in more than 3 billion baht in customer spending this year, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).
Nanthasiri Ronsiri, director of the TAT’s Phuket office, said the average occupancy rate for hotel reservations during the nine-day Taoist festival that operates from Sept 26 to Oct 4 is 60-65%, mainly in the downtown Muang district.
The busiest nights are expected to be Sept 30 to April 2 . Most of the visitors will be Thais, that tend to book areas at the last minute, Ms Nanthasiri said.
During the celebration, 81, 429 travellers from 506 global flights operated simply by 23 airlines are due to visit Phuket. Some 110, 165 domestic travellers have got booked to arrive on 919 domestic flights by seven air carriers during the same time period.
They may be expected to spend three or more. 4 billion baht in the province, the TAT’s Phuket office director said.
Meanwhile, businessmen in Songkhla’s Head wear Yai district within southern Thailand mentioned the provincial economic climate has improved given that Malaysian tourists started returning in the wake of the pandemic plus Thailand fully reopening its borders.
Last weekend, one parking lot at Songkhla Park in Muang area near Similha beach was filled with more than 30 tourist buses from the country, as tourists crowded the particular beach and its souvenir shops and restaurants for the first time in two years.
1 Malaysian guide mentioned Hat Yai offers organised a number of events intended for Malaysian tourists. In the meantime, a special train service to the district from Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station that was launched on Sept 16 has reportedly fascinated many visitors from Malaysia, Singapore plus Indonesia.
Sittiphong Sittiphatprapha, presi- dent of the Hat Yai Songkhla Hotels Association, said that many hotels in the province are fully reserved for its 10-day Vegetarian Festival from Sept 25 to April 4. Around 47, 000 tourists are expected to spend 250 mil baht during the time period.
Somkiat Osotsapha, a former lecturer of economics at Chulalongkorn University, published on Facebook which he expects Thailand will welcome over one 5 million vacationers a month in the 4th quarter of this 12 months as the kingdom much more affordable than a lot of countries in Southeast Asia.