News Forum - Over 5 million foreign tourists arrived in Thailand in 9 months, government says

[Thaiger]

A Thai government spokesperson has announced yesterday that over five million foreign tourists have arrived in the ‘land of smiles’ between January 1 and September 8. The total number of foreign visitors was 5,018,172, said spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana. The Tourism Authority of Thailand says the biggest group of tourists came from Malaysia, with 751,397 arrivals. Up next was India, with 480,825 arrivals. In third place was Laos, with 310,464 arrivals. Cambodia sent the fourth most tourists to Thailand, with a total of 249,084 arrivals. TAT estimated that the number of tourists would reach 10 million, based on advanced flights and […]

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[Dmitrii]

Something tells me that people from Malaysia, Laos, and Cambodia are only partly tourists.

I think many of them came to work actually.