Recently, Wattanakuljarus and Coxhead (2008) examined whether or not tourism growth would improve income distribution by expanding demand for relatively low-skilled labor in Thailand using a general equilibrium analysis. The results indicated that growth of inbound tourism demand would increase aggregate household income but worsen its distribution. The authors considered that this was because tourism sectors were not especially labor- intensive in the Thai context, and the expansion of foreign tourism demand created general equilibrium effects that undermined profitability in tradable sectors such as agriculture from which the poor derived a substantial fraction of their income.