thailand vs laosAvailability: Thailand welcomed over 30 million visitors in 2016, and Laos, by contrast, welcomed 4.3 million in 2015, which with a modest increase in 2016 – roughly a sixthIt avoided being a colony thanks to an agreement between the French and British who wanted a buffer zone between their colonies, Burma, also known as Myanmar, and Malaysia (British) and Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos