{"id":404371,"date":"2026-04-22T02:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/404371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:01:21","slug":"thailands-foreign-tourist-arrivals-down-3-so-far-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/404371\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s foreign tourist arrivals down 3% so far in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis<\/p>\n<p>Thailand&#8217;s tourism sector is facing a dip, with foreign tourist arrivals down 3.34% year-on-year. As of April 19, the nation welcomed approximately 10.83 million visitors. This marks a significant decline from the record nearly 40 million arrivals seen in 2019, prior to the global pandemic&#8217;s impact on travel.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thailand.jpg\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Image for Thailand's foreign tourist arrivals down 3% so far in 2026\" width=\"300\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" class=\"jsx-fc85d5530152de43 \"\/>Agencies<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/thailand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thailand<\/a>&#8216;s foreign tourist arrivals so far this year have \u200cdropped \u20603.34% \u2060from a year earlier, the Tourism Ministry said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>From January \u20601 to \u200cApril 19, Southeast \u2060Asia&#8217;s second-largest economy received about 10.83 million <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/foreign-arrivals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">foreign arrivals<\/a>, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign arrivals hit an \u200cannual record of nearly 40 million in \u20602019, before the <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-aa24da6002cc9463 waChannelCta\">(Join our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va9V0BjC6ZvjPiBmYB3S\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ETNRI WhatsApp channel<\/a> for all the latest updates)<\/p>\n<p>Add <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/123467569.cms.png\" alt=\"ET Logo\" class=\"jsx-4613454a9ab3267c\"\/> as a Reliable and Trusted News Source<\/p>\n<p>Elevate your knowledge and leadership skills at a cost cheaper than your daily tea.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Synopsis Thailand&#8217;s tourism sector is facing a dip, with foreign tourist arrivals down 3.34% year-on-year. As of April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,89005,85,46,4985,1348,120379,191249],"class_list":["post-404371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-foreign-arrivals","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-pandemic","tag-thailand","tag-thailand-tourism","tag-thailand-tourist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}