Thailand Travel & Hotel News

The resort town of Pattaya has become a favourite destination for older tourists, welcoming more than four million visitors every year.

The Bank of Thailand is widely expected to increase its policy interest rate on Wednesday by a quarter percentage point to 3%.

Association of Thai Travel Agents' members handled 241,121 international tourists at Suvarnabhumi Airport in April.

The Transport Ministry has waived landing and parking fees at 12 state-run provincial airports, most of them inactive, to encourage airlines to offer commercial services through them.

The National Economic and Social Development Board warned the fragile recovery in the US economy would be a key threat to the Thai economic growth this year.

Translating the notion of a knowledge- and creativity-based economy into practice.

The Tourism Council of Thailand is has re-forecasted 2011 numbers, with expectations in the range of 16.76 to 17.21 million.

Tourist arrivals to Thailand during the first quarter of this year improved 14.96%, the Tourism Council of Thailand reported, Monday, but it says it will review the year's target due to natural disasters both in Thailand and Japan.

Pattaya gained the highest occupancy averages, January through to the end of April’s Songkran festival, of all the regions monitored by Thai Hotels Association, according to eastern chapter president, Bundarik Kusolvitya.

Ministry of Tourism and Sports released its latest tourists arrivals data for Thailand revealing a 14.9% increase for the first three months on 5,356,935 visits.