June 1, 20215 yr While reading The Nation news today, I came across this headline: Tourist dollars only came from foreign film crew this year "The tourism sector’s only income this year has been from foreign filmmakers and crew, the Department of Tourism said recently." https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40001539 Whoa, I thought. What about all those tourists who entered the Kingdom on Special Tourist Visas (STV) or other visas. Some have posted on this board. Sure enough, a brief search determined that 7,694 foreign tourists entered Thailand during January alone. https://www.bernama.com/en/general/news_covid-19.php?id=1945387 This raises the larger issue of a government agency that tosses out a press release and a media all too willing to publish anything that comes over the transom without feeling obliged to do some due diligence.
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