Thais pay more for hotel rooms abroad
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Thai travellers are more willing to pay higher rates when travelling abroad, according to the latest Hotels.com Hotel Price Index (HPI).
When travelling overseas, Thais paid Bt4,779 on average for a hotel room, against Bt2,112 paid for a hotel in Thailand.
From all 32 countries surveyed Thailand was found to have the third largest gap between domestic and international hotel rates after Argentina and India.
Of total, 27 paid more abroad than at home with several having a significant gap between the two sums. The Argentineans spent Bt2,665 a night more on average when travelling abroad, followed closely by the Indians on Bt2,315 and the Thais on Bt2,112.
Malaysian travellers paid Bt4,167 on average when travelling abroad, and Bt2,642 in their own country. Singaporean travellers however paid Bt5,683 for a hotel room in their country, against Bt4,661 overseas.
The survey showed that hotel room rates in Thailand indeed decreased in the first half of this year, probably due to political situation. Krabi is the only destination that showed an increase in room rates.
The survey showed that a hotel room in Thailand cost an average of Bt2,667 per night in the period. It rate decreased from the same period last year.
During this period, Phuket hotel prices saw a 10 per cent fall to Bt3,250. On the eastern seaboard, hotel prices in Pattaya recorded a 9 per cent drop to Bt2,503, while Bangkok prices decreased 8 per cent to Bt2,235.
A 5 per cent slide took Chiang Mai to Bt1,855 while Koh Samui slipped 1 per cent to Bt3,098 per night.
Krabi experienced a jump in prices with the average hotel price paid per night increasing by 5 per cent to Bt3,226.
