THAILAND - courting Chinese tourists after 12% drop-off

Bangkokpost.com, December 17, 2007

Thailand hopes to welcome about 1.3 million Chinese tourists next year, about a 10% increase from one million visitors estimated in 2007, the Tourism Authority of Thailand in Beijing reports.
The number of Chinese arrivals visiting Thailand has been falling since last year due to Thailand's political problems and the bombs in the capital, drawing 12% fewer Chinese visitors in the first 10 months to 655,154, down from 747,067 in the same period of 2006. Total Chinese visitors would have zero growth this year.
But TAT hopes that its marketing campaigns together with explanations about the real situation in Thailand would bring back tourists from China.

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