Thailand is often known as the "Land of Smile", and it is obvious that people would want to have a tour to this wonderful country. Over the years, high hotel discount sourcing opened the doors for hotel businesses of Thailand to grow even more. Now, Thailand hotels offer a number of excellent discount and reservation services to the customers.

Thailand is also considered as an Asian Tiger. This is because, in the late 70s?, this country emerged as an economic power in the region. In that time, employment raised, GDP raised, tourism raised, so did the hotel industry. Till now, it is continuing to do the same. In the last couple of years, hotel business in Thailand took new tern and started offering exclusive customer services. However, no matter what types of services and features, Thailand's hotels offer, the major services include hotel discount services and the reservation services. The offers however, differ from hotel to hotel.

Provision of discounts and reservation services are some of the major factors for hotel businesses to boost up. Fortunately, hotel discount services in Thailand are quite attractive which helped the hotel businesses to rise at a new level. There are different types of hotels spread all over Thailand. There are diverse categories of hotels as well. For example some are family hotels, some beachfront hotels, some shopping area based hotels, some long stay hotels and some are even budget hotels.

Some of the hotels in Thailand are activity based; for example some focuses on sightseeing, some in cruise, some in spa and entertainment etc. The common thing about all these hotels is, they all focus largely on discount services.

The discount services nevertheless may come in packages. For example the package might vary by number of guests or by number of nights spend in the hotels. In addition, tourists get one type of discount services while business people get another type. And obviously, frequent tourists get healthy discount services, whenever they reach Thailand. The level of discount services however demands of seasons. For instance, during off-seasons, tourists enjoy around 30% to 40% discount. Additionally, there are some hotels in Bangkok and Phuket, which charge low rates and offer high discounts as a strategy for attracting low budget tourists. Discounts are too offered depending on the number of days within which booking is placed.

Over the years, wide use of the Internet promoted thousands of travel websites to be opened, which offers free reservation services for the Thailand hotels. In addition, special discounts are offered to the customers using these websites in regular base. Other than that, reservations for Thailand hotels can also be made through the common ways like telephone and postal services.

In today's context, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and India have joined the race. Therefore, Thailand's tourism industry is facing huge competition from other Asian countries. It is expected, in the coming years, competition will be even higher as China and Vietnam have already join the race. It will be interesting to see, how the Thailand hotel industry responds.

To pace up in the competition, Thailand's hotels expanded the range of discount services and reservation services.