Thereby the conditions for the emergence of new kinds of tourism, such as diving tours, and especially golfing tourism, were created. Tourist-oriented golf courses were at first constructed in the hinterland of seaside resorts; but with the recent growing popularity of Thailand as a golfing destination, particularly with East Asian tourists, such courses are also being established in destinations unrelated to seaside resorts. Golfing vacations thus became a new, specialized kind of vacationing tourism in Thailand. The recent establishment of health resorts, serving as yet a limited, wealthy local business elite, hints at the possibility of the future emergence of another specialization in Thai tourism: health vacations.