White Lotus: Travel booms for Thailand

Opodo’s data reveals that searches for travel to Koh Samui over these dates are +88%, to Phuket are +66% and to Bangkok are +61%.

German traveller interest is highest: making up a fifth (20%) of global travel interest with an increase of 50% in searches compared to the same period in the previous year.

Brits are in third place, 9% of the global total of searches, +53% on the previous year.

Other top 5 national interest is from France (up 54% and 10% of the global total), Italy (+103%, 8% of the global total) and Denmark (+87%, 7% of global total)

Bookings or travel to Koh Samui are +44% and to Bangkok are +17% compared to the same dates in the previous year

French travellers take the lead: making up 37% of all bookings in this period (a 28% bounce). Where as UK travellers make up 4% of the total bookings - an 84% increase year on year.