Factors affecting backpackers traveling to Thailand during 2009 to 2018

Abstract

Backpacker tourism is one of the travel categories that has become trending in the world. Thailand is one of choices that they choose to travel. There are several researchers define backpacker as the budget travelers because of their characteristic and life-style. In order to assess factors that may affect the number of backpackers traveling to Thailand, this study uses secondary data during years 2009 to 2018 which are obtained from websites. The factors are US real exchange rate, Thailand consumer price index and World Gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate. The Ordinary Least Squares regression (OLS) analysis is operated for econometric analysis. The study concludes that World GDP growth rate affect number of backpackers traveling to Thailand.