Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Mumbai and THAI Airways held a familiarisation trip for 17 travel agents across cities in west and south India. They were exposed to hotels and new products in Chiang Mai and Hua Hin.
“With the number of long weekends coming up in the following weeks, Holi on March 17, Gudi Padwa on March 31 and Good Friday on April, I expect number of Indians to jet set to their favourite destination, Thailand,” said Sethaphan Buddhani, Director, TAT Mumbai.
A total of 59,794 Indians visited Thailand during January 2014. 1,049,856 Indians visited Thailand in 2013, representing nearly 4 per cent growth over 2012’s 1,013,308 travellers. This amounted to about 4 per cent of the 26,735,583 international visitors to the Kingdom during 2013.