Thailand targets 40 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2025 aiming to match pre-Covid numbers


BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand aims for 40 million foreign tourist arrivals next year, helped by promotional campaigns, a government official said on Monday.

There were a record of nearly 40 million foreign tourists in 2019, before the pandemic.

Meanwhile, Thailand's annual headline inflation quickened in September due mainly to higher prices of diesel and some vegetables, the commerce ministry said on Monday, and was still below the central bank's target range of 1% to 3%.

The headline consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.61% in September from a year earlier, after August's annual increase of 0.35%, and missed a forecast rise of 0.80% in a Reuters poll.

The headline inflation rate is expected to be 1.25% in October and about 1.49% in the final quarter of 2024, Poonpong Naiyanapakorn, director of the trade policy and strategy office, told a press conference.

In the January to September period, average annual headline inflation was 0.20%. The commerce ministry on Monday revised its forecast for the full year to between 0.2% to 0.8%, from between zero and 1% seen earlier.

The core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased 0.77% in September from a year earlier, and slightly beat the poll forecast for a rise of 0.72%. - Reuters

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