SURFING: The Khao Lak Surf Festival 2023 came to a close yesterday (June 18) with perfect weather conditions making for great surfing which was followed by a community-led beach clean up.
Phuket s long and winding road towards recovery
10 Phuket s long and winding road towards recovery
Reopening is an important milestone but foreign travellers alone are not enough to save the island s hotel industry and tourism-dependent population
published : 7 Jul 2021 at 04:49 Kata Beach in Phuket after reopening as part of the sandbox scheme. Dusida Worrachaddejchai
Despite tourism operators and tourism-related agencies giving their blood, sweat and tears to ensure that the Phuket sandbox scheme marked the country s reopening on July 1, their work is not yet complete. Instead, it just marks the beginning of a long road towards recovery.
As of Tuesday, the island had already welcomed 1,896 international travellers and all of them tested negative for Covid-19.