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ATTA Reports Decline in Passenger Numbers for Don Muang and Suvarnabhumi
9th May 2017
According to the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA), its members handled a total of 1,887,821 travelers in the first four months of this year, at the two biggest airports in the country, Don Muang and Suvarnabhumi. This represents an 11.63% decline from 2,136,197 travellers that ATTA members handled in the same period the year before.
Vichit Prakobgosol, ATTA president, said that the number of travellers on itineraries sold by ATTA members should be around the same as in 2016.
He said:
China, India and ASEAN especially Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines are potential markets that tourism operators should tap to improve prospects. We also should maintain promising market like Europe…East Europe offers new opportunities for tourism operators.
On the other hand, ATTA members are seeing a decline in bookings from Europe this year. This was caused by tourists either booking directly through airlines or by going through online booking websites, rather than through ATTA.
One ATTA member said:
The country is gaining more European visitors, but tour companies are seeing their share of the business decline mainly due to the growth of online bookings.
Don Muang April Report
In its report, ATTA revealed that 7.75% fewer tourists booked through one of their members this year (159,139) than it did in April last year (172,500). Most visitors came from China, 135,587, 12.36% down from 154,701 visits in 2016.
Next was Indonesia with 6,822 visits, or 17.46% up from 5,808 in 2018 and Vietnam with 6,805 visits in April 2017, or 35.29% more than last year’s 5,030.
Suvarnabhumi Airport April Report
ATTA members recorded 291,390 international tourists handled by its members at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Last year, they recorded 20.80% more or 367,919.
Again, like with Don Muang, the majority of foreign tourists came from China – 143,605, but this was 33.18% less than 219,309 visitors in April, 2016.
The second market was South Korea with 20,958 visits, almost double from last year’s 10,858 (up 93.02%) and India ranked third with 8.89% less visits (15,714 from 17,248).
In total, most visitors between January and April, 2017 came from China (1,065,782), followed by 97,260 from South Korea and Russia with 90,409.
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