TAT foresees 1m arrivals from Russia this year
Russia is expected to bounce back with a million arrivals this year thanks to the strong revival of its economy, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand.
As the Russian economy began to stabilise along with the value of the rouble, visits to Thailand from that country began to rise in February and have been growing steadily ever since. In the first seven months of 2016, Russian arrivals totalled 599,141, up by 18.39 per cent over the same period in 2015.
Visanu Jaroensilp, TAT’s deputy governor for tourism products and business, said 12 Thai tourism businesses including hotels, tour operators and travel-related agencies participated in “Otdykh-Leisure 2016”, an event held in Russia from Wednesday to Saturday last week.
