The Phuket Island Blog

Phuket’s relative prosperity “shows how shifts that transform the global economy can also supply visitors to an attractive destination so steadily that it becomes relatively immune to temporary disturbances,” such as the recent violent demonstrations in Bangkok. That is the theme of Wayne Arnold in a story about Phuket in yesterday’s New York Times. Noting [...]

Keep Phuket Clean – a grass roots community clean-up program created by the Summer in Phuket campaign received a major boost by the Government who are initiating a 2 baht per plastic shopping bag charge for all major retailers in Phuket including Central, Jungceylon, Big C, Tesco Lotus etc starting on Dec 5th. There will [...]