The latest tourism statistics for Thailand have just been released. During April 2013, there were a total of 2,013,012 foreign tourists entering Thailand. This is a 19.38% increase on April last year. In just four years, the number of tourists visiting Thailand during the Songkran period has increased by 85.48% or an additional 927,719 tourists. So far this year there has been a 19.04% increase which should mean that Thai tourism will surpass last year’s record of 22,353,903 foreign tourists.
As before, the main group of visitors during April 2013 were Chinese at 410,173 tourists. This is an incredible 91.05% increase on this time last year. During the first four months of this year alone, some 1.5 million Chinese tourists have come here. The second biggest group of tourists were Malaysians (211,370) who came in bigger numbers than last year for Songkran. This was followed by Russians (148,921), Japanese (112,367), Koreans (85,987), Australians (77,178), Indians (72,893), British (72,865), Vietnamese (64,668), Laotians (64,627), Americans (63,964) and Germans (60,104).
