Chinese tourists reach top of visitor list in Thailand
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The number of Chinese nationals visiting Thailand surged during the first half of the year, exceeding Malaysians for the first time, tourism officials said Wednesday.
Between January and June, some 1,124,234 Chinese tourists visited the kingdom, up 28.9 per cent from the same period last year, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said.
Altogether some 10.5 million tourists visited during the first half of 2012, up 7.6 per cent year-on-year.
"The most important contributor to this growth was arrivals from China which, for the first time, crossed the 1 million arrivals markin the six-moth period," TAT said.//DPA
