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A tourist reads a book in Turatao Marine National Park off the Andaman Sea in southern Thailand's Satun province on December 22, 2008. From empty sun loungers at luxury hotels to vacant bar stools in dingy fleshpots, tourism in Thailand is going through its worst slump in decades, a result of the global economic slowdown and its own political turmoil. Picture taken December 22, 2008. To match feature THAILAND-TOURISM/ REUTERS/Arthur Jones Dionio (THAILAND)