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April 16, 2014

Boom in Chinese tourism troubles Thailand

  • Chinese tour groups have acquired the same sort of reputation for loud, uncouth, culturally unaware behavior that inspired the term “Ugly Americans” decades ago.
    • By DENIS D. GRAY
    Associated Press

    CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The bucolic, once laid-back campus of one of Thailand's top universities is under a security clampdown. Not against a terrorist threat, but against Chinese tourists.

    Thousands have clambered aboard student buses at Chiang Mai University, made a mess in cafeterias and sneaked into classes to attend lectures. Someone even pitched a tent by a picturesque lake. The reason: “Lost in Thailand,” a 2012 slapstick comedy partly shot on campus that is China's highest-grossing homegrown movie ever.


     
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