ourism, Thailand’s mainstay, is gradually picking up with the easing of restrictions to woo back foreign travelers. In the first five months of 2022, the country attracted 1.3 million visitors, although that is still a fraction of the 40 million annual visitors it drew before the pandemic. Amid a sluggish economic recovery, the benchmark SET Index declined just over 3% since we last measured fortunes with the baht down by 12%. The combined wealth of the 50 richest fell by nearly 6% to $151 billion from a year ago.