Exercise equipment ER visits in the USThailand international tourist arrivals
As Thailand's tourists vanished, America's home-gym injuries multiplied, which is not the trade any reasonable travel agent would recommend. The beach was closed. The treadmill, unfortunately, was not.
Both moved sharply in 2020 for direct covid reasons. Thailand's tourist arrivals collapsed by about 83% as borders closed and international travel stopped, while US exercise equipment ER visits surged as Americans stuck at home bought treadmills, Pelotons, and weights and then injured themselves on them at record rates. The common variable is that nobody was going anywhere — especially not to Thailand.
So the correlation is a swap of destinations: the beach for the basement, with predictable results. One place had no visitors. The other had too many.
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