Foreign tourist arrivals to Thailand to decline in 2021

Music fans enjoying a life performance from their tuk-tuk, Thai traditional taxi cars, in Bangkok during a late-night show on Saturday night (Aug 8), during the first-ever new normal Thai-style concert, called the Amazing Tuk Tuk Festival, respecting social distancing to avoid the spread of the Covid-19.The event was organised by the Tourism Authority of Thailand is aimed at promoting tourism and stimulating the economy. - AFP

BANGKOK, Aug. 7 (Xinhua): Thailand's state tourism body has announced during a press briefing in the capital that under a worst-case scenario of a prolonged Covid-19 crisis, foreign tourist arrivals next year could be as low as 15 per cent of 2019 levels.

That would represent an international visitor total of 6.1 million, compared with 39.8 million in 2019 when the country enjoyed 12 full months of normal tourism conditions, said the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in its latest tourism forecast report.