>>214240306
you hold such a naive and simplistic view because you don't know that tourism is not thailand's main business. thailand's primary business is manufacturing for export. tourism constitutes only 9-12% of GDP and merely 4% of the workforce is in the tourism industry.
what causes thailand to be stuck in the middle-income trap is not because we earns money from tourism, but because we lacks our own technology, unlike other high-income countries. the reason other SEA countries desire tourism revenue like thailand's is that it is an easy and effective source of income for diversifying their national economies.