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Some major shake ups for immigration rules and visas in Thailand. The changes were announced after a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The changes, affecting...
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Looking to drive around Thailand? Legally? Apart from getting a proper Thai license, or having a legal international license that is recognised in Thailand...
National News
Thai Airways is floating a substantial aircraft order, potentially acquiring up to 90, mostly, widebody planes from Airbus and Boeing as part of a...
Phuket Travel
Phuket is just the largest island out of around 30 islands that are within an hour or two trip off the island. Each has...
Phuket News
Thailand’s new PM has chosen Phuket and Phang Nga as the first provinces he would visit after being elected to the position last Tuesday....
Phuket Travel
Along the picturesque west coast of Thailand’s largest island, Phuket, lies a surfers’ (albeit a beginner surfer) paradise that often goes unnoticed. Despite not...
Phuket Life
Hotel reviews play a significant role in assisting fellow travellers by providing valuable insights before they finally select, and pay for, their next accommodation....
Phuket Travel
“Thailand ranked among the top three choices for travellers from 98 different countries, and it claimed the number one spot for visitors from 39...
Phuket News
Phuket experienced a significant influx of international tourists in the first five months of 2023, with over 6 million arrivals. Although the Tourism Authority...
Phuket News
Tourism arrival numbers appear to have stabilised in Phuket during April after a drastic drop immediately after Songkran on the holiday island. Between February...
National News
Following recent murmurings from AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes that he plans to shift his focus away from aviation, Thai AirAsia has offered assurances that...
Phuket Travel
Thailand’s tourism industry has long relied on Chinese visitors, and Thailand could welcome at least 25 million foreign tourists in 2023, with a solid...
Phuket Travel
Phuket boasts an array of breathtaking viewpoints, each offering a unique and unforgettable experience. If you’re planning to visit, don’t miss these must-see spots...
Phuket Travel
Two Dutch nationals have recently been arrested separately at Phuket International Airport for illegally staying in the country without proper documents. Thai immigration have...
Phuket Travel
A delightful surprise awaited a tour boat yesterday as passengers were treated to a rare show by a pair of Bryde’s whales in the...
Phuket Travel
The caretaker Thai PM, Prayut Chan-o-cha, has ordered strict legal action against foreigners who are working as tour guides, which is a profession exclusively...
Phuket Travel
Maya Bay, located on Koh Phi Phi Leh in between Krabi and Phuket in Phang Nga Bay, was made famous as the location for...
Phuket Travel
Thailand’s tourism sector is showing promising signs of recovery, exceeding expectations, even amidst a bumpy travel recovery around the world. A Thai government official...
Phuket Travel
Sitting in a plane has become more expensive when compared to pre-Covid prices. Whilst that is the situation for aviation generally, it has been...
Phuket Travel
Thailand’s tourism numbers are rocketing back, although in ways that were not predicted even a year ago. According to a government official, the tourism...
Phuket Travel
Phuket, Thailand’s most popular island, has been spotlighted in the American reality TV series “The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip” which is set to...
Phuket Travel
According to Zhang Wuan, Vice President of Chinese carrier Spring Airlines, flights between Thailand and China have rebounded to 50% of pre-pandemic levels and...
National News
Last October the Thai cabinet decided to increase the length of the visa waiver for tourists who arrive from 64 countries from 30 days...
Phuket Travel
Singapore’s Changi International Airport has once again claimed the top spot in Skytrax’s annual ranking of the world’s best airports. Skytrax, a UK-based airline...
Phuket Travel
174 mostly Chinese passengers have arrived at the Phuket International Airport on the inaugural flight of Chinese airline 9 Air Airlines. The flight arrived at Phuket...
Phuket Travel
JetStar, a budget airline owned by Australia’s QANTAS Group, has been ranked as the third most unpopular airline in the world, according to a...
Phuket Travel
According to the Tourism Authority of Thailand governor, Yuthasak Supasorn, airfares for flights connecting China and Thailand have remained high despite a decrease in...
Phuket Travel
Out with the prawns and shrimp – in with the chicken. One of the largest airline catering companies in the world, Singapore’s SATS, is...
Phuket Travel
Looking for an alternative way to get to South East Asia from Australia? Vietnam is landing on the to-do list of more Australian travellers,...
Phuket Travel
2023 was supposed to be the year that travel finally returns to normal after three years of the industry being on its knees. However,...
Phuket Travel
Qatar Airways has increased its services to Thailand with the launch of three daily flights between Doha and Phuket, starting today, February 1. This...
Phuket Travel
Phuket-GO have received several messages in recent days about the number of foreigners being targeted by police for fines, usually in late morning checkpoints...
Phuket Travel
Figures from Phuket’s Immigration Office indicate that the huge surge of tourists into Phuket has levelled off after the Christmas/New Year holiday period. From...
National News
The next wave of tourists will come for Chinese New Year and airports around Thailand are bracing for the rise of visitors to celebrate...
Phuket Travel
OPINION Phuket is busy again, for the first time since April 2020 when the government closed off the airports in April that year and...
Phuket News
Phuket is busy again, for the first time since April 2020 when the government closed off the airports and passenger arrivals into Thailand, because...
National News
…and probably inside Thailand as well. Red flags are appearing at many foreign Thai consulates and embassies which process foreigner visas. Increased flights, arrivals...
Phuket Travel
There is currently a crackdown, or at least a lot more checking, into visa applications coming through the Royal Thai Consulate in Penang. The...
Phuket Travel
Smaller hotels remain shuttered in Phuket, despite a surge of tourist numbers arriving over the past month as the island enters into its high...
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The chief of Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park in the southern province of Krabi says the area is experiencing a surge...
Phuket News
The number of arrivals through Phuket International Airport continue to grow, with the vast majority of the travellers during November coming from Russia. With...
Phuket Travel
Phuket’s international arrival numbers have reached 10,000 people (per day) for the first time since Thailand’s borders were shut down as a Covid precaution...
National News
The beleaguered national carrier, Thai Airways, has appointed a new CEO as it continues its financial rehabilitation process. TTR Weekly reports that Chai Eamsiri...
Phuket Travel
The Genting Dream is now moored off the coast of Patong Beach for 1 one day layover for shopping in Phuket’s main tourist town....
Phuket Travel
Today the Thai PM noted that he was hoping for a post-APEC tourism surge. In Phuket, anyway, his wish may have already been granted....
Phuket News
This week saw the latest direct flight introduced. This time from Oman with Oman Air. The direct flight into Phuket is from the capital,...
Phuket Travel
The number of daily international arrivals at the Phuket Airport has plateaued over the past week – a daily average around 7,500 people. A...
Phuket Travel
With the patchy recovery of tourism around Thailand, Phuket stakeholders are urging the government to help with the rising cost of flights, particular from...
Phuket Travel
Thailand is looking to the US carriers to help with increasing tourism opportunities for US citizens to visit the Land of Smiles. The Tourism...
Phuket Travel
When is the best time to visit Phuket? Anytime is a good to visit the southern Thai island of Phuket. But, depending on what...
Phuket Travel
The Phuket International Airport is seeing a lot of new direct flights from Russia. Even though Russian travellers have not filled up any of...
Phuket Travel
Rather than waiting for the tourists to magically arrive in Phuket, the local Tourism Authority of Thailand office goes and finds them. That strategy...
Phuket Travel
While Thailand waits for tourist numbers to increase, especially as we approach the annual tourist high season, Thais are getting back into the tourist...
Phuket Travel
Hong Kong has done it, how about Thailand? We are now in a new travel era, let’s call it the post Covid era. Through...
Phuket Travel
Phuket Airport Immigration has recorded a surge of new arrivals onto the island since the start of October. The numbers come from the daily...
Phuket Travel
The annual Skytrax Airline Awards are out for 2022, surely one of the most challenging years of aviation. Being largely grounded during the Covid-19...
Phuket Travel
by Tim Newton Any revival of Thailand’s tourist industry will have little do with anything initiated by the Thai government or the enthusiastic Tourism...
Phuket Travel
The problems with Jetstar and its problems with flights in and out of Australia over the past month, are well documented. Read HERE and...
Phuket Travel
More than five million travellers have passed through Thailand’s arrival turnstiles during the first nine months of 2022, up to September 8. Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana,...
Phuket Travel
Australia’s budget airline Jetstar is still causing headaches for passengers trying to head out of Australia for travel, or fly back from their holidays...
Phuket Travel
UPDATE Baggage handlers call off strike Workers at Dnata, which provides baggage handling and other ground services to Qantas, have called off a strike...
National News
Thai Vietjet is celebrating 6 years in operation by introducing promotional fares starting from just 666 baht. According to a TTR Weekly report, the...
Phuket Travel
Thousands of Australians are currently stranded overseas, mostly in Asian destinations, due to budget airline JetStar’s “engineering requirements”, resulting in dozens of its flights...
Phuket Travel
A new night time theme park called “Carnival Magic – The Magic Kingdom of Lights” is opening on Phuket on September 20. At a...
Phuket Travel
Should I visit Phuket now? Yes, you’ll be in for a few surprises and, despite a few showers of rain this time of the...
Phuket Travel
What used to be a daily 1 hour flight from Phuket to Penang, was abandoned in April 2020 as airlines were grounded in response...
Phuket Travel
International tourists’ activity has picked up due to the continuous scaling down of Covid-19 restriction measures around the globe. Online booking platform Agoda reported...
Phuket Travel
Recovery of Asia’s tourism economies comes down to ‘bums on seats’ – aircraft passenger seats – as well as a few border crossings and...
Phuket Travel
Chinese visitors are starting, slowly, to return to Thailand, both from Hong Kong and Mainland China. Both Pattaya and Phuket have reported an uptick...
Phuket Travel
The Deputy President of Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation (OrBorJor Phuket), Anupap Wetwanichsanong, and the Phuket Tourism Association led a team of more than 40...
Phuket Travel
The cost of flying in and out of Australia is surging, and these stats are only from the past two months. Although most of...
Phuket Travel
The national airline of Russia, Aeroflot is resuming its direct flights between Moscow and Phuket according to the Spokesperson of the Prime Minister Office,...
Phuket Travel
Colliers International Thailand has revealed numbers that show Phuket is one of the top locations targeted by hotel brands and investors, in addition to...
Phuket Travel
The first passenger flight in a sustainably safe modern jetliner happened in December 1957* but, here we are, 65 years later, and not a...
Phuket Travel
Indian tourists are saving Phuket’s tourism industry as the island is in the early phases of recovering its million-visitor-per-month status. It’s still a LONG...
Phuket Travel
The General Manager of Phuket International Airport, Monchai Tanode, said that after the government cancelled the Thailand Pass system on July 1, an increasing...
Phuket Travel
Patong beach is welcoming a large contingent of beachgoers, mainly foreigners from India and the Middle East. Despite a bit of rain over the...
Phuket Travel
Despite the damp weather in Phuket over the past week, the tourists are flocking back to the island. Phuket’s west coast lifeguards have been...
Phuket Travel
Phuket’s Governor, Narong Woonsew, visited the runway at Phuket International Airport late yesterday to follow up on the progress of the repair and announced...
Phuket Travel
From today, there is no more Thailand Pass necessary for entering Thaland. The online pre-travel registration was mostly unpopular and had a bad reputation...
Phuket Travel
On June 28, Rewat Areerob, the President of Phuket OrBorJor (the Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation or provincial government), updated the public on two new...
Phuket Travel
Phuket’s office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand has announced that 1.7 million travellers have visited Phuket during 2022. Phuket, ever reliant on a...
Phuket Travel
Phuket is to feature in the first-ever “best of” list being compiled by online travel agency, Trip.com. The southern Thai island will feature alongside...
Phuket Travel
Indian tour operators and travel agencies attending the Thailand Travel Mart Plus 2022 in Phuket last week say they’re interested in new travel products...
Phuket News
Over 100 representatives from 10 tourism associations have met with the Tourism Authority of Thailand to discuss how best to promote the kingdom’s tourism...
Best of Phuket
Businesses in the tourism and hospitality sectors have voiced support for a proposal to extend the opening hours of nightlife venues to 2.00am, as...
Phuket News
For Phuket, it’s the second time around after last week’s flip flop on the places you have to wear masks on the island. The government’s...
Phuket News
Vietjet has relaunched its route between Ho Chi Minh City and Phuket, the first airline to resume flights between the southern island and the...
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