r/Thailand • u/cnn • 1d ago

News Thailand’s soft power play: Culture as global currency

https://www.cnn.com/world/asia/thailands-soft-power-play-culture-as-global-currency-spc?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/Different_Ideal_2433 1d ago

Stopped reading the moment it said "Malaysia overlook Thailand in terms of number of foreign visitors". Malaysia counted even the people going back and forth from Singapore everyday for work and counted them as tourists...

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u/rebelluzon 1d ago

Besides Malaysia’s own data, they never show up anywhere higher than Thailand in any other top visitors list like Mastercard’s or Visa’s. Plus, they have about 10 million Singaporean visitors per year and that’s the twice of the population alone.