'Phuket Sandbox must attract 600.000 tourists in three months, of which 130.000 from abroad'
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Phuket's reopening, scheduled for July 1, is expected to attract more than 600.000 foreign and local tourists to the resort and generate cash flow of about 15 billion baht over the next three months, tourism authorities say.
Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew said on Saturday that the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) expects about 129.000 foreign tourists between July and September and that 500.000 Thais will visit Phuket.
From July 1, Phuket will waive quarantine requirements for foreign tourists fully vaccinated against Covid-19 under the “Phuket Tourism Sandbox” model. The model is touted as an opportunity for the reopening of the tourism sector. However, as a precaution, tourists will have to stay on the island for 14 days before being allowed to travel to other destinations in the country.
Mr Narong said all parties are accelerating preparations to ensure the reopening goes smoothly as planned. “Our main goal is to revive the local economy while preventing the spread of the pandemic. We hope we can show people in Phuket and other parts of the country the benefit they will get from the reopening.”
He stressed that the strict Covid measures must continue to apply so that the province does not have to go into lockdown again.
Nanthasiri Ronsiri, director of the TAT office in Phuket, said five airlines will fly foreign tourists, mainly from Europe, to Phuket on July 1. They are Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Israel Airlines, Etihad Airways and Emirates.
Editor's note: It seems that the TAT counts itself rich. Yesterday we wrote about the many conditions that tourists must meet. It is impossible to imagine that the average tourist would have to pay all those preparations and extra costs for a holiday in Thailand.
Source: Bangkok Post
Completely unimportant of course, but I sometimes wonder how they arrive at certain numbers.
Now take that 129. How do they arrive at that number of 000?
I would possibly also round that nicely as in the title and say 130 000, but no they say about 129 000. 🙂
hahahahahah
Last week my students gave a presentation about electric buses.
When it came to the range of the bus with the new type of battery, I read a few times on the overhead slide: about 1046 kilometers. Not 1050, not 1000.
Unrounded numbers give the impression that they were not plucked from thin air, but that extensive thinking and calculations were involved. Or is that sum even somewhat realistic..? well..
650 miles = 1049 km perhaps?
Can't be
650 miles is APPROXIMATELY 1046.0736 kilometers.
In addition, a small detail, the info came from Volvo's website. Can't imagine they charge in miles.
Let me try to tell you how these numbers are arrived at;
if you have a good data system, you know exactly how many tourists land at the airport in the years 2010 to 2020, even from day to day. There is a kind of trend in this (growth I assume) and you extrapolate that to 2021. From that number you subtract the tourists who do not fly directly to Phuket. And then comes the hardest part.
You now have a number approximating the number of tourists who would fly direct to Phuket without Covid. But yes, Covid is indispensable. Not in the tourist's mind, not in the number of restrictions and not in Phuket's not-so-attractive offerings at the moment. So you can stick a wet finger in the air and subtract a few thousand. Not too much, of course, because that has a demotivating effect. And a number that ends in a 9 because that is also psychologically beneficial (look at the prices of goods). If reality later shows that there were not 129.000 but even 133.000. That difference looks bigger than the difference between 130.000 and 134.000.
Yes indeed, a 9 can be psychologically beneficial, at least in sales. The buyer is then given the impression that he has been able to buy something cheaply. Offering a hotel room for 999 instead of 1000 can already convince someone.
But I can imagine that when someone comes to apply for a job, for example, you might be able to convince them more easily by saying that they will earn about 50 instead of 000, although that can also mean 49 in both cases.
I also think in the direction as Rob V says and that with the use of non-rounded numbers people want to give the impression that this has been thought about…. however long that may be in reality 😉
Politicians do nothing but sell ideas and proposals.
oops was gone again for no reason
With this he can sell himself, which may then be paid in the form of votes later. But then you should not underestimate by betting too low.
If one shouts “I promise a raise of 129 Baht a day” and another shouts “I promise a 130 Baht raise a day” then 129 will not bring any psychological benefit here.
Now my previous comment is also gone and this one was an addition to it. Anyway, don't retype it again and leave it at that.
I hope their numbers are correct but I think there will be 3 zeros too many.
Typically Thai. Forget those numbers. …..
There is little point in looking for any well-thought-out theories behind this. Anyone who holds any position in Thailand and has an idea wants to put themselves in the spotlight and profile themselves in this way. Selling air is a very important occupation for this type of people
Do we remember the numbers they quoted last year when they came up with the STV to bring the wealthy tourists to Phuket which would generate billions in TB?
Phuket = fantasy island!!
Want to see who wants to stay there first for 14 days, same as quarantine, most of them only have 14 days conge for Thailand tour.
Let them first change those idiotic rules, what you shouldn't do to go on holiday to Thailand and pay for all the paperwork yourself, holiday will be twice as expensive, then we will stay away from it like so many.
Take it 43.000 foreign tourists per month. More than 10.000 a week.
I will definitely not use the Phuket option myself, but I do think that this number is feasible, especially since there will be many who wanted to travel to TH anyway, but for whom 15 nights in a stuffy hotel room is not an option.
Again: I pass for it, but this number seems feasible to me. Despite the COE, the known additional measures, the hassle and the state of the island.
ha ha ha,
I laugh my ass off at the responses, and I believe all of them.
Certainly many zeros have to be removed, both with foreign and domestic tourists.
We may know the “truth” in a few months 🙂
1 contamination and everything will be stopped or will they face reality?
It is a test model and the high season is coming, but will not be saved either positively or negatively with the current yo-yo reporting, 2 high seasons broken, and the thb still getting stronger,…
I'm in Phuket now and everything opens today. That's the latest news here, hot off the press, a bar around the corner. Alcohol can also be served again today and Bangla will also open again for the first time tonight. I just drank a delicious cocktail on the beach, together with some stray Russians and it was a special sensation. The owners of the bars here are delighted and happy and you can now see everything opening up and the alcohol stock being displayed again. So not July 1. Today. I'm curious what will happen tonight, but I'm definitely going to take a walk across Bangla to see it with my own eyes, even though I don't really have anything to do there. Patong has been a complete ghost town in recent weeks.
Very strange that nothing is mentioned in the newspaper? Alcohol ban is still banned nationwide according to national authorities (see rules according to color zones)
So all those bars open there today at 8 o'clock in the morning if I understand correctly?
https://www.thephuketnews.com/