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As we have pointed out numerous times in this blog, the expansion of Phuket International Airport is urgently needed because the airport can currently only deal with 6.5 million passengers a year. However, the airport has been bursting at the seams this year while handling a massive 9.1 million passengers. Transport Minister, Chadchart Sittipunt, has…

There is some real positive news around at the moment regarding Phuket’s tourism influx. With a few weeks still remaining in 2012, the total number of passengers through Phuket International Airport has already surpassed last year’s total of 8.4 million. This is especially good news when you consider that the next few weeks are the…

Over the past couple of years, the landscape of the Phuket tourism scene has been changing and evolving. Asian travelers have become a mainstay of the island’s holidaymakers with Koreans, Japanese and Chinese visiting the island more than ever before. The Chinese market has the potential to be extremely lucrative over the next decade, so…

It seems that the world financial crisis over the past few years is beginning to lift, especially in Phuket. When the world economy crashed at the back-end of 2008, the reverberations were felt far and wide, and it seemed that every country across the world had to bear the brunt of ill decisions by banks…