Thailand is projected to miss its tourist arrival numbers for this year, but authorities are placing more value on “quality” tourists who spend more. It’s a strategy that could be challenging, experts say, given the global economy and the inability to win back the important Chinese market. Edition: Singapore Indonesia Asia US/UK BANGKOK: Consistently the crownholder of Southeast Asia’s most visited country, Thailand came close in 2019 to a symbolic threshold it had never reached before: 40