Originally Posted by transpac

Last seven months...makes sense based on past figures published by different governmental agencies.

According to data released earlier this week by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Permanent Secretary, Chutintorn Sam Gongsakdi, just 78,328 foreigners with Certificates of Entry (COE) have entered Thailand between 9 July 2020 and 6 February 2021.

Of those, 1,157 were Elite Card holders & 2,457 were Special Tourist Visa holders.

Not all of the 78,238 were tourists of course. All of these were foreigners.

Based on previous DCA figures, the total number of tourists is easily below 15,000.

Elite qualify as "tourist" according to the DCA, as do STV, TR60 and TVE.