By Reuters and published by Business Times
THAILAND’S foreign tourist arrivals this year up to the end of August fell 7.16 percent from the same period a year earlier, the Tourism Ministry said on Tuesday (Sep. 2)
There were 21.9 million foreign visitors during the period, it said in a statement, with China the largest source market with 3.1 million arrivals.
In August, the state planning agency cut its forecast for foreign tourist arrivals this year to 33 million from 37 million. There was a record of nearly 40 million visitors in 2019, before the pandemic.
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