Tom Spender

Freelance journalist & photographer in Beijing

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Entries Tagged as 'tourism'

Expoland

October 28th, 2010 · No Comments · China

I visit the Shanghai Expo.

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Emirati health tourism in Thailand

August 16th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Journalism, Middle East, Rest of Asia

Thailand has become an important health tourism destination for Emiratis and other Gulf Arabs who don’t trust their own national health services and who have found it harder to get visas for the US post-9/11.

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“New world views from the homes of kind strangers”

June 27th, 2010 · No Comments · China, Journalism, Middle East

New world views from the homes of kind strangers – travel story in The National It was midnight and I was acutely aware of how dodgy I looked prowling from door to door under the watchful eyes of the only other person on the street, a Cantonese woman standing in a pool of light outside [...]

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