Less interest in airline tickets to Thailand

By Editorial
Posted in Tourism
17 September 2015

Significantly fewer tourists traveled to Thailand last summer. America, Morocco, Egypt, India, Malaysia and South Africa also saw their tourist numbers drop.

This is shown by research by flight comparison site Skyscanner, which compared the number of clicks to booking sites in the top 50 of search results in July and August with 2014.

The Maldives, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Cuba and Poland were the biggest risers. According to Skyscanner, the greater interest in the Maldives is due to the extra flight connections of Arab airlines via the Gulf States.

The top three, Spain, Turkey and Italy, managed to maintain themselves with positive figures of more than 3 percent. Portugal, England, Greece, France and Croatia also saw positive figures.

6 responses to “Less interest in airline tickets to Thailand”

  1. Barteld says up

    Good reason to drop the prices….

    • Jack G . says up

      It can also go differently Barteld. Capacity reduction on the Bangkok route. This means that if there is growth in the future, prices will actually go up. I think current prices are not that bad right now.

  2. nico says up

    Yes, that was in it, after his bomb attack and many cancellations (free transfer to another destination) this cannot be missed. And the ministry keeps saying that everything is going well, despite extra flights from China.

    • TH.NL says up

      Transfer for free? How do you get there? Fortunately, there has never been a negative travel advice or anything like that.

      • Jack G . says up

        Nico's rebooking story is correct. A number of airlines have offered this option after the attack in Bangkok. That in itself is not necessarily a bad thing. In the beginning you lose some customers who rebook to Bali, for example, but in the longer term if things remain calm, the customers will simply return to Thailand and will not automatically go elsewhere. KLM was one of the companies that did not offer this option to its customers.

  3. Rick says up

    The countries that are mentioned as fallers almost all have some form of real mass tourism. Many people have such a country or an activity in such a country on their bucket list (safari, pyramids, etc. etc.), once it has been completed, it is often another country's turn.


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