Went to Thailand once on a corporate jolly, flown out of India by a man I had been advising who lived in and ran a major travel firm based in Kathmandu as a "Thank you" for services rendered - he, a couple of his senior managers and me.
"You'll like it, Paul..." [Thailand, particularly Bangkok]
He sent no less than three different "ladies" (females, at least) up to my room in our top-end hotel after I had been notably (and worryingly, for him) uncharmed by the, in a few cases, very lovely many who had crawled all over us in the bar(s) earlier.
Hell hole.
Terrible, possibly racist, but certainly possibly horribly true quote from a travel book, Swimming To Cambodia by Spalding Gray (1987), though the line might not be originally his, that I read several years later:
"Thais. The nicest people that money can buy."
Love to have seen the country a hundred years ago, though.
As for now, however -
Greater Mekong countries 'lost one-third of forest cover in 40 years' | Environment | guardian.co.uk - and its 'Wanna Be in My Gang?' tourists and zoo-fish lakes...
Pass.