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Attracting 15-20 million visitors a year, Thailand is one of Asia’s most popular destinations and is known the world over for its beautiful scenery, friendly people, spicy food and periodic coups! Thailand depends heavily on tourism, which accounts for a large chunk of its foreign exchange earnings, and has developed a very good infrastructure in major tourist centres, catering equally to backpackers and the five star luxury crowd. English is taught in all schools, but only those working in the tourist industry or sophisticated parts of country have grasped it. It is a safe, middle-income country that sits proudly among the leaders in Southeast Asia’s ‘tiger economy’ phenomenon. With its enormous natural and human resources Thailand has vastly reduced poverty in the past three decades to become a prosperous Asian country that enjoys a fairly high profile around the world.