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Growing exports as Japanese opt for Thai-style pampering.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Mar. 6--Thailand's spa-treatment export industry, particularly to Japan, has great potential given the growing taste worldwide for Asian products, says a Japanese expert.

Wakaba Koyama, executive chairman of Ayus Oriental Spa Group, said more Japanese consumers were using Asian spa-treatment products, from Thailand in particular.

"The popularity of Thai spa treatments is rising and surpassing that of Bali treatments," she told participants at a forum organised by the Export Promotion Department.

Ms Koyama said that the demand for products such as herbal compresses, turmeric and plai, a Thai herbal extract, was increasing as more hotels in Japan ...

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