: As already mentioned, the southward expansion of tourism in Thailand proceeded primarily through the opening of beaches on the islands and along the mainland coasts to vacationing tourism. Initially, vacationing was a simple matter of the "three s's", sea, sun, and sand. Over the years, however, the attractions offered by the seaside resorts became increasingly more diversified: a great variety of leisure and sporting amenities have been provided in the resorts, creating new possibilities for vacationing activities which reached far beyond the simple pleasures of the "three s's". 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.