RELEASED: 11 Dec 2022 at 04:00
Events to invite foreign visitors happened at 7 airports and 2 migration checkpoints the other day as the nation tape-recorded 10 million foreign traveler arrivals for the year.
The Tourist and Sports Ministry arranged the “Incredible Thailand 10 Million Celebrations” occasion to highlight the constant revival of the financially important market after a Covid-induced decline that lasted more than 2 years.
Regional dignitaries and tourist magnate ended up to form inviting celebrations at all 7 worldwide airports– Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, U-Tapao Rayong-Pataya, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Krabi and Samui– and at the Sadao and Nong Khai border checkpoints.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was at Suvarnabhumi airport to invite the year’s 10 millionth visitor getting here on a flight from Saudi Arabia.
The 2 fortunate travelers who got the reward worth more than 200,000 baht were Ms Njood Alkhuwaiter and Mr Hetham Almdlj.
They were amongst 357 travelers from Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV 846 from Riyadh who got to the airport at 3pm.
” Today we have actually invited more than 10 million travelers. We will not stop this success however we will attempt to construct more self-confidence [among visitors] that Thailand is still among the primary locations for tourists around the globe,” Gen Prayut stated at the occasion.
” We’re all set on all sides to invite foreign visitors,” he included.
In the East, an Azur Air charter flight from Moscow bring 336 travelers landed at U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya worldwide airport at 11.38 am.
It was followed 14 minutes later on by another Azur Air charter from Novosibirsk, Russia.
Chon Buri guv Thawatchai Srithong, Rayong deputy guv Pirun Hemarak and senior authorities from the airport and the Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT) signed up with tourist company executives to invite the Russian travelers and present them with mementos.
In Phuket, guv Narong Woonciew led agents from the general public and economic sectors to invite 722 foreign visitors from the UK, India and South Korea. Thailand invited 40 million foreign travelers in 2019 before Covid-19.
