BANGKOK, Feb 27 (TNA) – Hit by the Covid-19 outbreak,
Thailand’s tourism industry has seen a big drop of at least three million
foreign tourists.
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports
Chote Trachu said the Ministry had assessed the impacts of the outbreak on
Thailand’s tourism industry.
With the negative impacts of the outbreak, Thailand would
not achieve its tourism revenue target of three trillion baht this year, he
said.
The Ministry would report a revised target at the end of
March, said Chote.
Visitors from China, Thailand’s biggest source of tourists,
dropped 3.71% in January from a year earlier to 1.03 million following the
coronavirus outbreak. The number of
tourists from other countries has also significantly decreased.
The senior official said the Ministry planned to roll out
tourism promotion as the government warned people against traveling to affected
countries. (TNA)
