{"id":11355,"date":"2017-09-14T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T04:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T09:08:18","slug":"asias-leading-luxury-travel-destination-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/asias-leading-luxury-travel-destination-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s Luxury Travel Destination &#8211; Top List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tourism Authority of Thailand\u2019s (TAT) annual\u00a0<strong>\u2018Amazing Thailand Luxury Fam Trip <\/strong>\u2018 was hailed a huge success by 32 top long-haul travel agents who attended from 15 major overseas countries.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the trip, the\u00a0<strong>\u2018Amazing Thailand Luxury Trade Meet<\/strong>\u2018 was also held to allow buyers to meet and discuss emerging trends with luxury travel service providers from around the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Srisuda Wanapinyosak<\/strong><\/span>, TAT Deputy Govenor for International Marketing \u2013 Asia and South Pacific said, \u201cThis educational trip provided long-haul travel agents with compelling examples of why Thailand is firmly established as the region\u2019s leading luxury destination. Thailand is proud to offer a multitude of<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong> bespoke luxury experiences<\/strong><\/span> for high-end travellers.\u201d\u00a0\u201cThese include five-star pool villa resorts, Asia&#8217;s 50 best\u00a0restaurants, award-winning spas, certified health centres in addition to Asia\u2019s most fashionable shopping venues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>32 buyers joined the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Amazing Thailand Luxury Trade Meet<\/strong><\/span>, which provided an opportunity to hold face-to-face meeting with Thai sellers. The group included representatives from upscale hotels and resorts, golf courses and spas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tree-Pool-Houses-Exterior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"633\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event provided an ideal platform for Thai luxury tourism operators to discuss business and network with decision-makers from long-haul tour companies. The travel agents from Australia (3); Europe (17) including Denmark, Portugal, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, the UK and Italy, the UAE, and the Americas including Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and the United States (12) came to Thailand specifically for the event.\u00a0The fam trip highlighted Thailand\u2019s popular Bangkok-Samui-Chiang Mai travel route and produced many luxury highlights.<\/p>\n<p>For short-haul markets, TAT organised an earlier \u2018Amazing Thailand Luxury Trade Meet. A survey of participants from that meeting offered interesting <strong>Thailand tourism news<\/strong>\u00a0and insights into the perception of the Kingdom as Asia\u2019s number one luxury destination.<\/p>\n<p>The buyers confirmed Thailand as\u00a0<strong>Asia\u2019s leading luxury travel destination<\/strong>\u00a0with Ko Samui and Phuket named as the most popular destinations, followed by Bangkok. Other notable top luxury destinations were Bangkok, Krabi, Hua Hin and Pattaya.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thailand-showcases-luxury-lifestyle-experiences-for-top-long-haul-travel-agents.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ms. Runjuan Tongrut, TAT Executive Director of the East Asia Region (2nd from left); Mrs. Pataraporn Sithivanich, TAT Executive Director of Europe, Africa, and Middle East Region(6th from left); Mrs. Srisuda Wanapinyosak, Deputy Governor for International Marketing Asia and South Pacific (7th from left); Mr. Santi Chudintra, Deputy Governor for Policy and Planning (7th from right); Ms. Jittima Sukpalin, TAT Executive Director of the Americas Region (6th from right); Dr. Walailuck Noypayak, TAT Executive Director for ASEAN, South Asia and South Pacific Region (5th from right)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tourism Auth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thailand&#039;s Luxury Travel Destination - Top List - Luxury Society Asia, Thailand&#039;s Best Luxury Lifestyle Business Community Website\/Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/asias-leading-luxury-travel-destination-thailand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"th_TH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thailand&#039;s Luxury Travel Destination - Top List - Luxury Society Asia, Thailand&#039;s Best Luxury Lifestyle Business Community Website\/Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Tourism Auth...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/asias-leading-luxury-travel-destination-thailand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Luxury Society Asia, Thailand&#039;s Best Luxury Lifestyle Business Community Website\/Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-14T04:05:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-19T09:08:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shutterstock_565245100.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 \u0e19\u0e32\u0e17\u0e35\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/asias-leading-luxury-travel-destination-thailand\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.luxurysocietyasia.com\/asias-leading-luxury-travel-destination-thailand\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Thailand&#8217;s Luxury Travel Destination &#8211; 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