TravelNewsAsia.com

   

 

PATA's Top Five Tourism Winners for First Quarter 2006

Travel News Asia Thursday, 19 October 2006

Travel and tourism arrivals across the Asia Pacific region expanded 4.5% in the first quarter of 2006 compared to first quarter 2005, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association's (PATA) comprehensive and comparative listing of Asia Pacific destination performance. That translates into nearly 3.5 million more arrivals for Asia Pacific destinations, year-on-year.

PATA’s ‘First Quarter 2006 Quarterly Statistical Report’ (‘QSR’) shows which Asia Pacific destinations attracted the most increases in international visitor arrivals and from which source markets.

The top five origin-destination % growth performances for first quarter 2006 compared to first quarter 2005, (where passenger traffic was 25,000 or more) were:-

1) Russian Federation to Thailand (+138.2%)
2) China (PRC) to Thailand (+131.8%)
3) Italy to the Maldives (+126.9%)
4) Korea (ROK) to Thailand (+89.7%)
5) China (PRC) to Philippines (+87.1%)

"Thailand clearly bounced back from the post-Tsunami declines it suffered in the first three months of 2005," said PATA Director-Strategic Intelligence Centre Mr John Koldowski.

In purely % growth terms, irrespective of volume, top five origin-destination growth performances for first quarter 2006 compared to first quarter 2005, were:-

1) Sweden to Bhutan (+200.0%)
2) Indonesia to Chinese Taipei (+145.0%)
3) Brunei to Cambodia (+143.6)
4) Russian Federation to Thailand (+138.2%)
5) Malaysia to Tahiti (+136.4%)

The top five origin-destination pairs with the greatest volume gains in first quarter 2006 over first quarter 2005 were:-

1) Hong Kong SAR to China (PRC) (+680,681)
2) China (PRC) to Hong Kong SAR (+553,052)
3) China (PRC) to Macau SAR (+492,748)
4) Hong Kong SAR to Macau SAR (+237,802)
5) Canada to USA (+150,232)

See other recent news regarding: PATA, Visitor Arrivals

Subscribe to our Travel Industry News RSS Feed Travel Industry News RSS Feed from TravelNewsAsia.com. To do that in Outlook, right-click the RSS Feeds folder, select Add a New RSS Feed, enter the URL of our RSS Feed which is: https://www.travelnewsasia.com/travelnews.xml and click Add. The feed can also be used to add the headlines to your website or channel via a customisable applet. Have questions? Please read our Travel News FAQ. Thank you.

     

Advertising
Advertising

 
Copyright © 1997-2024 TravelNewsAsia.com