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Thailand Pulls Back the Welcome Mat: The Decision to Halve Visa-Free Stays and What It Means for the Kingdom’s Tourism FutureAs Tourism and Sports Minister Surasak Phancharoenworakul recently emphasized, the policy shift underscores a deeper institutional mandate: "Thailand isn't just chasing numbers anymore — we're going for quality and sustainability."

Thailand Pulls Back the Welcome Mat: The Decision to Halve Visa-Free Stays and What It Means for the Kingdom’s Tourism Future

Published May 22, 2026 by Staff Writer

Less than two years after extending visa-free stays to sixty days to rescue its post-pandemic tourism recovery, Thailand’s cabinet…

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Australia’s Tourism Engine Roars Back: 9 Million Visitors, Record Spending, and a Bold Vision for 2035The Australian Tourism Exchange, known in the trade simply as ATE, stands as the nation’s premier business-to-business tourism forum. I

Australia’s Tourism Engine Roars Back: 9 Million Visitors, Record Spending, and a Bold Vision for 2035

Published May 20, 2026 by Staff Writer

Fresh ABS figures reveal Australia welcomed 9.1 million international visitors in the past year — ten per cent more…

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The 300,000-Room Mandate: Inside the Billion-Dollar Physical Build-Out Defining Egypt’s Road to 30 Million TouristsWith approximately 230,000 hotel rooms in its current inventory, Egypt needs to add somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 rooms over the next four years to have any realistic prospect of hitting its target.

The 300,000-Room Mandate: Inside the Billion-Dollar Physical Build-Out Defining Egypt’s Road to 30 Million Tourists

Published May 6, 2026 by Staff Writer

Egypt’s tourism infrastructure surge is world-class, fueled by sovereign backing, reform, and 46,000 rooms under construction. The question isn’t…

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$169.8 Billion and 906,000 Jobs: What America’s First State-by-State Tourism Report in Nearly Three Decades Reveals About the True Power of International Visitors

$169.8 Billion and 906,000 Jobs: What America’s First State-by-State Tourism Report in Nearly Three Decades Reveals About the True Power of International Visitors

Published May 3, 2026 by Staff Writer

For the first time since 1997, the U.S. government has mapped exactly where overseas visitors spend their money —…

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