Tourism today has become an industry that is now crucial to the world economy. Thailand has been gaining an increasing market share of international tourists.
The new global cultural economy has to be seen as a complex, overlapping, disjunctive order that cannot any longer be understood in terms of existing center-periphery models (even those that might account for multiple centers and peripheries). Nor is it susceptible to simple models of push and pull (in terms of migration theory), or of surpluses and deficits (as in traditional models of balance and trade), or of consumers and producers (as in most neo-Marxist