BANGKOK - Thailand's tourism-dependent economy should receive eight million foreign visitors next year and see a recovery to a pre-coronavirus pandemic level of 40 million visitors by 2024, the country's Finance Minister said on Wednesday .
"If global travel gets better than expected after there is a vaccine, our tourism may come back faster," he added. Officials have forecast 6.7 million tourists this year, 6.69 of which visited in the first quarter before the ban.