THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

49321

Passenger land transport by taxi

ประกอบกิจการบริการรถยนต์ให้เช่าเพื่อท่องเที่ยว และรถตู้ทุกชนิด

What this activity covers

Companies provide passenger transport services using hired cars or taxis within cities and between locations.

  • Taxi services — Passenger transport by hired cars/taxis
  • Booking services — Arranging hired car services via telephone
  • Tourist transport — Taxi services specifically for tourists
  • Vehicle rentals — Rental services for various types of vehicles
  • Passenger transport logistics — Transport services for both goods and passengers

What companies here also do

Seen in real company registrations under this code — beyond the official definition, so licensing may differ.

  • Car rental services — Offering rental options for cars
  • Leasing taxis — Buying, selling, and leasing taxi vehicles
  • Transport for the general public — Providing transport services for all passengers

Foreign ownership

List 2: Restricted, Cabinet routeinherited from 49

Domestic transportation by land, water or air, including the domestic airline business

Domestic transportation only. International carriage falls outside this item, and sector laws impose their own foreign shareholding caps.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 2, Chapter 1 (2)Routes: Cabinet permission, US Treaty of Amity

Auto-mapped, verify against the Act. These TSIC mappings are indicative, not legal advice; the schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority. See the full foreign ownership reference.

Industry at a glance

as of 23 ก.ค. 69

The whole registered industry under this activity, every registration year, from the DBD DataWarehouse.

362
active companies operate here
฿939.9Mregistered capital, combined
฿1.8B
Sector revenue · 2025
+41% since 2023
฿47.3M
Net profit · 2025
159 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
0%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿0 foreign฿19.5M Thai

Almost entirely Thai-held — little foreign capital enters here.

New in 2026

22+57.1%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿939.9M-19.2%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

Latest filed-year revenue, not a multi-year total

  1. 1Andaman Wave Master Co., Ltd.฿193.7M
  2. 2Kingdom Tour 2015฿153.0M
  3. 3Kochatach฿132.2M
  4. 4EASY CLUB EV CO., LTD.฿81.6M
  5. 5Sapphaya Ruangrong 999 Logistics฿71.4M

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Chalong Bay View Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿66.5M
  2. 2Kingdom Tour 2015Phitsanulok฿54.5M
  3. 3Andaman Wave Master Co., Ltd.Phuket฿43.0M

Source: Department of Business Development DataWarehouse. Financial figures are combined totals of companies that filed statements; revenue and profit shown for the latest three reporting years.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

80
Registered
since 2022
71
Still active
9
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 18 in 20242026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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