Thailand: Tourism revenue in South will dip if violence continues.

(From Thai Press Reports)

Section: General News - Earnings from tourism for the three troubled southern border provinces - Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat -- are projected to decline further in the second quarter of 2007 if violence related to the southern insurgency continues, according to a leading think tank's report.

Renewed violence in the three provinces has become more fierce since its beginning in 2004, forcing tourism, both by locals and foreigners, to decline 18 per cent to 1.15 million visitors in 2004 and deteriorating further to about 800,000 persons in the following year, according to a report issued by Kasikorn Research Centre.

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