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Thailand Had No Foreign Tourists in April After Closing Borders
Airport staff walk through an empty Suvarnabhumi Airport departure hall in Bangkok on April 3.
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Thailand received no foreign tourists or related spending in April after closing its borders and banning most incoming international flights to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Visitors stranded in the country because of lockdowns around the world weren’t counted in the numbers, the Tourism Ministry noted in data released Friday in Bangkok. There were almost 3.2 million arrivals in the same month last year, generating receipts of 146 billion baht ($4.6 billion).