Thailand saw more than 8 million Mice travellers generating 54 billion baht in the second quarter of fiscal 2019, increases of 2.9% and 6.3% year-on-year, says the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau. TCEB president Chiruit Isarangkun Na Ayuthaya said international Mice (meetings, incentives, conventions, exhibitions) travellers during the period, which ended in March, stood at 353,256, up 11%, for 26.7 billion baht in income, up 7%. Domestic Mice travellers represented a bigger chunk with some 7.75 million travellers in the period, a gain of 18%, generating 28 billion baht, up 180%, with exhibitions and incentives the key categories. The strong Mice business in the quarter of 193 meetings lifted the ranking of Thailand's Mice sector to fourth in Asia, up from fifth place last year. The agency predicts a total of 35.9 million Mice travellers this year, with spending of 221.5 billion baht, up from 34.2 million travellers and 213 billion baht in the last fiscal year (October 2017-September 2018).

Source: Bangkok Post May 17, 2019 23:37 UTC