Foreign passenger arrivals via international flights doubled during five year period.
Climbing visitor numbers trigger hotel performance uplift “Samui International Airport, as the major gateway to Koh Samui, is benefiting from a growing number of international flights and an expanded portfolio of codeshare partners. Following the doubling of international passenger arrivals in 2016, the number continued to increase with growth of 15% in 2017. Surat Thani Airport is increasingly an alternative access point to Samui, where aircraft arrivals rose significantly last year by 19% to 8,228 flights. Passenger arrivals at nearby Surat Thani also uplifted by 12% to 1.1 million.
