Residents of Patong held a protest preceding a public meeting to decide if a tunnel is needed to ease traffic between Patong and Phuket Town. 100 people marched along the beach road waving banners saying “We Need the Tunnel”. About 500 people attended a meeting at Phuket Graceland Resort which it a part of feasibility [...]
Entries from April 27th, 2010
Patong Residents Demanded for The Tunnel
April 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Development and Infrastructure
Tags: construction·patong·phuket·road·traffic
Another Cheap Flight to Phuket
April 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Travel and Tourism
Phuket will hopefully start to seeing more tourists coming both Singaporean weekender as well as long haul holiday makers making stopover in Singapore. The newly growing low airfare carrier Tiger Airways has just launched a promotion offering flight from Singapore to Phuket at special price.
Phuket Tourism after Bangkok Incident
April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Travel and Tourism
Deadly event in Bangkok was believed affect in an explosion hitting hotels and other tourism industry throughout the country. However so far hoteliers in Phuket still believe that at the moment the situation in the capital is still an isolated epicenter, both by figures and by opinion. President of Centara, a leading Thai hotel chain, [...]
Phuket Tourism Targets Vietnam Market
April 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Travel and Tourism
Following establishment of Phuket as the regional air hub, The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) expects to attract more than 400,000 Vietnam tourists this year. Director of TAT office at Ho Chi Minh City, Pichai Raktasinha, exposed that despite of cracking the psychological barrier, the figure is realistic considering the continuously increasing figures recorded in [...]