spend on advertising and slow down to increase marketing budget according to Thailand’s mourning period of King Rama 9. However, customers who focus on content services are continue to advertise. 4) Other
– December) historically generates higher revenue and earnings contribution to VGI Group, the mourning period is expected to impact the digital media segment by approximately 1 month in 3Q 2017/18. This impact
renovation of three hotels under Dusit Thani brand, and caused by a temporarily weaker demand from catering and convention during the mourning period and the royal funeral of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Earnings
subsequent mourning period to October 2017, Entertainment and promotional marketing decrease out of respect to the country beloved King and out of request from the Government along with a decrease in private
outlook for 4Q17 should be positive compared to last year after passing the mourning period and Royal Cremation Ceremony since the end of October 2017. For hotel renovations, the Company already completed
in 20172, mainly due to an ongoing postponement of festivities subsequent to the mourning period over the passing of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the shrinkage of advertising spending in a
tourists, compared to 5,872,145 people in the pre-COVID-19 period (Jan-Feb 2020), as travel restriction remained in place. In 2021, the recovery of the Thai economy is expected to be fragile and uneven
, the confidence in consumer has remained low level, the joint mourning for the passing of the King has effected to the domestic economy activity, these affected the purchasing force and spending less. (2
geopolitical situations remain risk factors affecting economic activities of Thailand’s trading partners. At the same time, uneven recovery of household purchasing power may be further hindered by the floods in
only gradually picked up. Even then, such growth remained uneven; improvement was seen only in certain businesses and in some areas. On the downside, however, trade policy uncertainty, in particular