Phuket
Phuket eyes more HK tourists
Phuket hotels and resorts hope to attract more than 120,00 visitors from Hong Kong in 2010. With 24 weekly flights and Air Asia establishing itself as a hub in Phuket, the future once again looks bright for… »
Discounts cost Phuket 10 billion baht
Discounting from the hotels in Phuket in 2009 cost the industry around 300 million USD (ten billion baht), according th C9 Hotelworks in Phuket. – Virtually every chain scale tier was affected with the exception of the budget and economy segment,” said Bill… »
Phuket Film Festival confirmed
The second edition of the Phuket Film Festival to be held June 4-13 2009 on Phuket Thailand. The Festival has opened up for film submissions to be submitted… »
Phuket moving up in satisfaction
The good news: Phuket is moving up on the list of the best islands in the world in the annual “Reader’s Travel Awards” from Condé Nast Traveller Magazine. The bad news: Thailand is almost falling off the list of the best countries to… »
Outrigger Laguna ready to open
The countdown has started for the official opening of Outrigger Laguna Phuket Resort and Villas. In 60 short days the project at Bang Tao in Phuket will be ready for guests – with some unbeatable rates until 1st of April… »
2004-quake affected California
U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California’s famed San Andreas Fault. The results, which appear this week in the journal Nature, suggest that the Earth’s largest earthquakes can weaken fault zones worldwide and may trigger periods of… »
Sea rescue center for Andaman region
Thailand has approved an Bt18 million budget to set up Andaman sea rescue centers in a bid to restore confidence among tourists and the image of tourism in its Andaman coastal provinces.
The budget will be allocated to Thailand’s five Andaman Sea coastal provinces of Phuket, Krabi, Phangnga, Ranong, and Trang.
Phuket Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Centre… »
Russian missing off Karon Beach
Another visitor to Phuket is missing – and presumed dead – after swimming in the sea off Karon Beach this… »
Back in time
Foreigners discovering Phuket, plans for a casino, an expatriate stabbed, tourists robbed, plane accident with pilot error – this is not a flashback over the last 12 months, but foreign news reports published from the Andaman region from 1945 to… »
Phuket – in 1975
How was Phuket like 34 years ago? A journalist from Australia found his way to Phuket town, Kata and Patong. Read the excerpts from the article. Some things are… »