{"id":304282,"date":"2025-11-23T21:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304282\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:55:13","slug":"thai-tourism-giants-report-surge-in-profit-amid-chinese-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304282\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Tourism Giants Report Surge in Profit Amid Chinese Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listed carriers and hoteliers secured over 30.25 million baht in profit despite a 35% drop in Chinese visitors, driven by efficient cost controls and strong European demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Major publicly listed Thai tourism businesses have successfully navigated a significant slowdown in international arrivals during the first nine months of 2025 (9M 2025), transforming the market challenge into widespread profit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite overall foreign tourist arrivals hitting 24 million\u2014a 7 per cent decline year-on-year, largely due to a sharp 35 per cent drop in Chinese visitors\u2014leading airlines and hotel groups reported strong financial results.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The key to the resilience lay in aggressive cost management, a strategic pivot away from the diminished Chinese market, and higher-yielding traffic from Europe and other territories.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763934913_210_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Thai Tourism Giants Report Surge in Profit Amid Chinese Slump\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 750px; height: 422px;\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Airlines Post THB 30.25 Million Profit<\/p>\n<p>The Thai airline sector was the strongest performer, recording combined profits exceeding 30.259 billion baht, an increase of 8.687 billion baht on the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thai Airways (THAI) delivered the most dominant performance, securing a net profit of 26.394 billion baht\u2014a rise of 73.4 per cent\u2014largely due to efficient cost management.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The airline benefited from lower fuel prices, a stronger baht, and excellent passenger growth on its European routes, maintaining a robust load factor of 79.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Bangkok Airways and Thai AirAsia saw lower year-on-year profits due to their higher exposure to the weak Chinese market, both remained profitable.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thai AirAsia strategically reduced capacity in slow-recovering markets like China and Hong Kong, focusing expansion instead on routes to India and Vietnam. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Listed carriers and hoteliers secured over 30.25 million baht in profit despite a 35% drop in Chinese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8170,64,63,99,164,3291,3725,6771,173600],"class_list":{"0":"post-304282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-hotels","14":"tag-thailand","15":"tag-tourism","16":"tag-tourism-industry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}