SURAT THANI: More than 200,000 tourists, mostly foreigners, visited Koh Tao, a popular attraction in this southern province, over the past nine months.
Surat Thani has become the country's second-most-visited province, earning more than 1.7 billion baht in four months. Some reports suggest it made another 347 million baht over the long weekend.
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SURAT THANI: About 83,000 visitors to this southern province during Songkran boosted tourism-related income by 84% year-on-year, with major attractions including a full-moon party.
The Sandbox scheme, now expanded to tourist magnets in the South, is no match for the suspended Test & Go programme although it is keeping the country's tourism heart beating, say tourism experts.