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Thailand’s tourism recovery hinged on tapping into 227 million strong domestic marketplace

Over 1,000 travel industry participants at Thailand Tourism Forum 2020 – Special Bangkok Edition – virtual online conference

 

TTF 2020 Bangkok-based speakers

TTF 2020 Bangkok-based speakers (from left): QUO CEO, David Keen; Rosewood Bangkok Director of Sales and Marketing, Leanne Reddie; Centara Hotels & Resorts CEO Thirayuth Chirathivat; IC Partners CEO, Charles Blocker; Hotel Intel Editor-in-Chief Wimintra Raj; Delivering Asia Communications CEO, David Johnson; and Horwath HTL Director-Thailand, Nikhom Jensiriratanakorn.

 

BANGKOK Thailand’s domestic-led tourism recovery was at the forefront of a virtual online event “TTF2020 – Special Bangkok Edition” today that tapped more than a 1,000 leading domestic and international travel and hotel industry participants.

Research from hospitality consulting group C9 Hotelworks and Delivering Asia Communications focused on domestic inter-Thailand visitor market whose size at more than 227 million in 2019 stole the limelight versus 39.8 million international visitors. This set the event stage for a compelling look into the pent-up demand of local travelers who are now being targeted by Thai hotels and tourism establishments.

In a series of random polls as part of C9 and Delivering Asia’s market insight held over the weekend in Bangkok, an assortment of Greater Bangkok residents that represent more than 15 million people in the expanded metropolitan area voiced a clear preference for less dense, more natural provincial destinations. Those most mentioned were the islands of Koh Chang and Koh Kood and mountain areas of Phetchabun, Nan, Pai and Mae Sot.

To view the special event video edition of Greater Bangkok residents talking about Thai domestic travel click.

 

TTF 2020 Bangkok Edition:

TTF 2020 Bangkok Edition: keynote speaker Centara Hotels & Resorts CEO Thirayuth Chirathivat (right) interviewed by Delivering Asia Communications CEO, David Johnson.

Top 10 Thailand Destinations
Thailand Domestic Travel

Thailand domestic travel data by C9 Hotelworks and Delivering Asia Communications

 

In a key segment of the event by global hotel intelligence group STR, which zeroed in on the country’s gateway capital, Area Director – Asia Pacific Jesper Palmqvist said “as Thailand’s economic engine, Bangkok will need to lead by example coming out of the crisis and promote and enable the domestic business that exists. In hotel metrics, this will change the definition of what are ‘acceptable performance levels’ are.”

As to what lays ahead for hotels Palmqvist added “forget about hitting 2019 levels again anytime soon and instead focus on recalibrating what acceptable hotel trading levels are. There is a case to be made for either economy and midscale or luxury properties to emerge more efficiently. Though the question remains, with tighter traveler belts on the horizon, which class of hotel will represent the fastest route to longer term recovery?”

Summing up the takeaway points of TTF2020 – Special Bangkok Edition, C9’s Managing Director Bill Barnett said “while international tourism remains a work in progress that is highly leveraged on bilateral cross-border agreements and restoration of airlift, the near-term goal of hotels is to attract cash flow. Expect Thailand to take to the road in considerably greater numbers for the remainder of 2020 and the industry will have to fish where the fish as part of the recovery journey ahead.”

An impressive line-up of speakers for the event, organized by C9 Hotelworks and the American Chamber of Commerce Thailand, included Centara Hotels and Resorts CEO Thirayuth Chirathivat and key senior executives from JLL, Horwath HTL, QUO, TSI, STR, Agoda, IHG, HotelIntel and Rosewood Bangkok. 

To download the full-length event video and presentations, visit this link.

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