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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 Silk Road Reawakens: How Uzbekistan Is Betting Everything on Becoming Central Asia’s Tourism Powerhouse by 2030In June 2025, China and Uzbekistan established a mutual visa-free travel agreement for tourism purposes—a massive strategic milestone given the government's target of attracting one million Chinese visitors annually against a 2024 baseline of just 74,300.

The Silk Road Reawakens: How Uzbekistan Is Betting Everything on Becoming Central Asia’s Tourism Powerhouse by 2030

Published May 17, 2026 by Staff Writer

From fewer than three million visitors in 2017 to a bold target of twenty million by 2030 — inside…

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Paraguay’s Grand Gamble: Can the Landlocked Giant of South America Become the Region’s Next Great Tourism Destination?Santa María has announced that the government will actively seek foreign investors to come to Paraguay and build state-of-the-art theme parks and high-technology entertainment complexes.

Paraguay’s Grand Gamble: Can the Landlocked Giant of South America Become the Region’s Next Great Tourism Destination?

Published May 13, 2026 by Staff Writer

  A newly appointed minister with 25 years of private-sector experience and a bold ten-million-visitor target is betting that…

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