Xu Zheng's 'Lost in Thailand' film spurs Chinese tourist boom

What does mainland China's highest grossing film of 2012 have to do with a tourist boom in Thailand? The land of smiles - once the choice destination for middle-aged male tourists, the Germans and the Japanese in the 1980s, followed by Italians and Russians in subsequent decades, now has a new kid on the block - the mainland tourist.

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