Category: 2009 December

THAILAND VOTED FAVOURITE SAILING VENUE IN ASIA

Phuket King’s Cup Regatta remains the most popular and is voted the best regatta in Asia Phuket – Thailand was voted the favourite sailing venue in Asia and the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta best regatta in Asia, according to a recent survey. The survey found also that the Regatta generated approximately 40 million baht for [...]

 

ARRIVALS INCREASE WITH ADDITIONAL AIR SERVICES FROM AUSTRALIA, SINGAPORE

Phuket is already most popular island destination in Thailand, and very soon, it could be giving Bangkok a run for its money as the top destination in the entire country. At least as far as Australians are concerned. Last month, Pacific Blue started with direct flights to Phuket from Perth. On the 3rd of December, [...]

 

PHUKET JETSTAR BOOSTS SINGAPORE, SYDNEY FLIGHTS

Jetstar announced an extra double-daily flight between Phuket and Singapore last Tuesday the 8th of December and forecast that the ”amazing” uptake in future services will continue. Jetstar Asia Singapore-based head of commercial, Leslie Ng, said bookings on most routes were already approaching 80 percent between now and Chinese New Year, which falls on Valentine’s [...]

 

PHUKET CARNIVAL AT PATONG FROM DECEMBER 15 TILL DECEMBER 20

Phuket Carnival will be frothier and bursting with good cheer this year as Chang boosts the budget spend to 40 million baht. For that kind of money, Patong gets five days of fun from December 15-20, with two parades and daily performances for tourists and residents. Full name ’2009 Phuket Carnival at Patong’ this year [...]

 

AUSTRALIAN TRAVELLERS WANT TO GO WHERE THEIR CURRENCY IS KING

The Asia-Pacific dominates the top-10 bargain buys, for cheap airfares and hotels. Fiji, Bali, Bangkok and Shanghai lead the cheap destinations, says travel website Wego. Singapore, New Zealand and the US are next on the thrifty leader board, with Phuket, Canada and Tokyo rounding out the affordability champions. Free massages, bar tabs and restaurant meals [...]

 

THE PHUKET REAL ESTATE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR 2010 IS LOOKING POSITIVE

The prospects for the Phuket real estate market for next year is looking brighter, and with a number of new projects getting ready for launch, developers are working hard to meet the expectations of buyers, which are getting higher all the time. A trend that we are seeing lately is that developers are trying to [...]

 

FOREIGN DEMAND IN PHUKET SHOWS SIGNS OF RECOVERY

Since about two months now we see signs that foreign demand for real estate in Phuket is recovering.   Most enquiries are coming from potential buyers in European and Australian, where the exchange rates are very favorable at the moment.   The market for Phuket real estate started to improve at the beginning of the [...]

 

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NEWS UPDATE

  • ‘Phuket Aquapark’, the island’s newest attraction, is scheduled to open on December 15. The Aquapark is located in Kathu, in the Phuket [...]

  • Thai business aircraft operator MJets has opened the country’s first dedicated fixed-base operation (FBO) at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport to exploit the [...]

  • It has been a long time mystery why helicopter aviation has not yet targeted the tourism market in Phuket. Given the international [...]