The ups and downs of Thai Tourism

Read any article about Thai Tourism these days and you will be totally befuddled. Half the articles proclaim T.T. is doing better than ever, while the other half is proclaiming that T.T. in in Intensive Care
For the first time ever, the United Nations World Tourism Organization is listing Thailand as number ten in the ten top tourist destinations. 
The question which comes to my mind is: "Who supplied them with the numbers?"

Link→ Global tourism report for 2013 shows 

Thailand up in both arrivals, earnings

T.T. Thai Tourism reminds me of this Bobby Vee song