Tourist Migration from Former Soviet States to Thailand: Current Trends and Development Prospects
Journal: ORIENTAL STUDIES
Year: 2025

Introduction. The article treats tourism as a form of temporary cross-border migration and examines how visitors from former Soviet states have shaped Thailand’s tourism landscape across pre-pandemic growth, the COVID-19 collapse, and a robust, uneven recovery. It focuses on how visa regimes, flight connectivity, payment channels, and geopolitical shocks condition volumes, profiles, and destinations within Thailand. Goals. The paper aims to identify current trends and development prospects of to