During July, Chinese arrivals in Thailand fell 0.9 percent from a year earlier, the first drop since the start of 2017, when the Thai government was cracking down on cheap tour packages from China. The Thai tourism ministry expects a bigger decline of 14.3 percent for August, Reuters reports. On July 5, two tourist boats capsized and sank near Phuket, Thailand, during a sudden storm. Forty-six people died and three were missing, all of whom were on the double-decker ship Phoenix PC Diving, which carried 101 people, including 89 tourists, all but 2 were Chinese nationals. Southeast Asia destinations don’t want to put all their eggs in China’s tourism basket, but the region knows China is too good of an opportunity to pass up, at least for now, writes Dan Peltier for Skift.