Phuket News Center – Phuket tourism is recovering very quickly. In this high season, more than 10,000 foreign tourists flock per day, and Russia comes the most. Followed by India, along the beach, tourist attractions are full of foreigners. The crowded stores will continue into the first quarter of next year.
Phuket has entered the full tourist season since November. from various beaches all over the island of Phuket Including tourist attractions full of tourists who come to relax, sunbathe, do beach activities. Including travel to tourist attractions Various islands, restaurants, shops, night life creates a lot of excitement for Phuket After stagnating for 2-3 years due to the situation of spreading the COVID-19 virus All the tourists have disappeared. The tourist attraction has turned into a deserted city and a deserted beach, but today that memory has faded. The image of the beach, on the other hand, is filled with tourists.
The foreign tourists who come to Phuket during this time are Russian and Ukrainian tourists escaping the cold in search of warmth and sunshine. Including fleeing war Tourists from India, Europe, America and neighboring countries no less than 10,000 people per day
Ms. Nantasiri Ronasiri, Director of Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Phuket office, said the tourism situation in Phuket at the end of this year is very good. A large number of foreign tourists have returned to Phuket. From the first day we opened the country, there were only 300 foreign tourists a day and it is steadily increasing. Up to the end of this year, the number of foreign tourists entering Phuket was 10,000 per day, including Thais, up to 18,000 per day, making the proportion of foreign tourists increase to 69% from the previous only 30%.
This is because Phuket is still one of the favorite tourist destinations for foreign tourists. And tourists in cold countries have escaped the cold to rest. Finding the sun in Phuket Whether it is Russians who came to Phuket as their first country, Ukraine, Europe, including India, Australia, etc.
The director of TAT Phuket further said that from January to November 2022, Phuket received a tourism income of 190,000 million baht and is likely to increase during Christmas and New Year. As a result, the average occupancy rate of beach hotels is no less than 80% as tourists come back very quickly.
Ms. Supattra Charuariyanon The chairman of the Patong Hotel Association said that tourism in Patong Beach is very active at this time and will continue until early next year. Especially during this December, the hotel room reservation rate in Patong Beach averages no less than 70-80%, but in some places it exceeds 90-100% of the main tourists who come to stay and travel on the beach. a Russian tourist in Patong Beach, up to 50-60%, followed by India, Australia and parts of Europe.
from a large number of visitors during this period make hotels In Patong Beach, more than 60 percent of hotels are open, especially hotels with 3 stars or more, now almost all of them are back open for service.
While Mr. Brad Edman, Vice President of Phuket Marriott International and General Manager of Renaissance Phuket Resort & Spa said in the same direction that The big picture of Marriott hotels in Phuket now has a large increase in foreign tourists and has started to see more tourists from from distant countries such as the United States, Ukraine, Korea and Japan. And foreign tourists are expected to increase from the end of this year and continue until the first quarter of 2023.
“Compared to the same period in 2019, we can see that the growth rate of tourists using Marriott hotel services has increased by 105 percent this year, which is a very good sign, because Phuket is still a destination for tourists of everything above the world Including Marriott itself, it has marketed aggressively to attract tourists from all over the world. And the Marriott Bonvoy program with 170 million members has allowed Phuket’s hospitality and tourism industry to recover very quickly,” said Brad Edman.
