{"id":1396,"date":"2017-11-20T18:29:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absoluteresorts.com\/our-stories\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2017-11-20T18:29:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:29:26","slug":"thailands-high-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteresorts.com\/our-stories\/thailands-high-season-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s high season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai travel agents enjoyed a 102% increase in tourist clients for the period 1 to 10 November when compared with the same 10-day period in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest appraisal, Thailand\u2019s Association of Thai Travel Agents confirmed its member companies handled 177,902 clients at Bangkok\u2019s two airports for the first 10 days of November.<\/p>\n<p>It signals the start of the high season for Thailand when tour company business spikes.<span id=\"more-135866\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/043a1f2aa2feb180bed777acb113cb87.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135899 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/043a1f2aa2feb180bed777acb113cb87.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/043a1f2aa2feb180bed777acb113cb87.jpeg 560w, http:\/\/www.ttrweekly.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/043a1f2aa2feb180bed777acb113cb87-300x200.jpeg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a> Since 1 January,\u00a0 ATTA member companies have provided a meet-and-greet service for 4,974,324 tourists at the two Bangkok airports, up 3.19% over the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The top performing market for travel agents was predictably China with 2,955,101 people travelling on pre-paid travel packages. However, it was a decrease of 1% when compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam was the second largest market with 270,136 travellers buying ATTA member services, up 23.54%, while Korea was third with 233,799 tourists, up 60.58%.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth placed India supplied 217,541 an increase of 23.72%,\u00a0 while Japan in fifth place generated 138,603 trips up 5.98%.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that the Chinese market will close the year with a market share of 59.41% of all travellers buying pre-paid holidays and handled by ATTA agents.<\/p>\n<p>A decade earlier the market share would have been led by European tour operators followed by those in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.\u00a0 Now Chinese tour operators dominate the supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai travel agents enjoyed a 102% increase in tourist clients for the period 1 to 10 November when compared with the same 10-day period in November 2016. 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