Thailand’s gay-romance TV dramas help revive flagging tourism industry

The popularity of boy-love' series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the country

There is a table in Soontaree Thiprat's Phuket cafe that is always fully booked. Most of her customers at the Dibuk restaurant want to sit in the corner, at the spot with the red tablecloth and purple flower.

It is the table where the male student characters Teh and Oh-aew, played by the actors Putthipong Billkin" Assaratanakul and Krit PP" Amnuaydechkorn, would sit together and flirt in I Told Sunset About You and its sequel, I Promised You the Moon, a romantic Thai series that has proved hugely popular in its home country and abroad.