The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) forecasts Russian tourist arrivals will come up to 1 million this year. In 2014, Russian arrivals dropped to thailand. This decrease happened in the major tourist destinations, including Pattaya, the popular destination of most Russians. The number of Russian tourists visiting Thailand started to increase again in February to March and this made the amount tourists increase to 1.6 million in 2016, and tend to grow further to 1 million.