Indian weddings are big tourism business and Thailand wants them

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Thailand is forecasting a huge growth in the number of Indian weddings and honeymoons following an annual fam trip organized for wedding planners from major Indian cities.

Thailand is forecasting a huge growth in the number of Indian weddings and honeymoons following an annual fam trip organized for wedding planners from major Indian cities.

A total of 17 planners from Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Jaipur, Chandigarh and Bangalore were invited for this yearโ€™s trip, which covered Bangkok, Phuket, Khao Lak, Kanchanaburi, Hua Hin, Rayong and Pattaya. It was the third such trip organised in as many years.

The visit between March 21-27, 2016, ended with a briefing symposium and table-top opportunity for business networking between the Indian wedding planners and 31 Thai hotels together with 23 wedding service and attractions keen to cater to the market.

Indian wedding planners find that Thailand is perfect for the growing number of destination weddings thanks to airline accessibility, great Thai hospitality, affordability of luxury, strong cultural connections, and products and services that deliver the highest standards of excellence and attention to detail.


Thailand hosts about 300 weddings from India every year, or roughly one event every two days. Each wedding party comprises between 100-600 people, covers three to six days, with budgets ranging from 10 million Baht to 50 million Baht per event.

Mrs. Srisuda Wannapinyosak, Deputy Governor for International Marketing โ€“ Asia and South Pacific โ€“ of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), said, โ€œThis is still only scratching the surface of the market potential. An estimated 15 million weddings are held in India every year with an overall expenditure of US$60 billion dollars. With the vast majority of the Indian population still in their 20s, many more weddings will come up in the years ahead.โ€

Ms. Soraya Homchuen, Director of the TAT Mumbai Office, gave a detailed briefing to the fam trip participants on the extensive range of hotels, restaurants, deluxe shopping malls, convention centres and other attractions and facilities that the Indian wedding planners can present to their clients.

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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