BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s foreign tourist arrivals from January 1 to June 29 fell 4.56% from the same period a year earlier, the Tourism Ministry said on Tuesday.
There were about 16.61 million foreign visitors during the period, it said in a statement.
Malaysia was the largest source country with 2.29 million visitors, followed by China with 2.25 million.
Last week, the Bank of Thailand cut its forecast for foreign tourist arrivals this year to 35 million from 37.5 million.
Thailand welcomed a record of nearly 40 million visitors in 2019, before the pandemic.
(Reporting by Thanadech Staporncharnchai; Editing by David Stanway)
