PHANG NGA (NNT) - As part of the government’s urgent policy to promote tourism along the Andaman coast and to increase revenue from tourism activities, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and his entourage traveled to Phuket and Phang Nga to follow up on transportation infrastructure development projects. The Andaman coast is comprised of the provinces of Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi, and Ranong.

 

Along the Andaman coast, three airport development and construction projects are underway: the second phase of the Phuket International Airport Development Project, the development of the Krabi International Airport, and the construction of the Phang Nga Airport (also known as the Andaman International Airport) in the Khok Kloi Subdistrict of Takua Thung District, Phang Nga Province.

 

According to Airports of Thailand PLC (AOT), the goal of building Phang Nga province’s Andaman International Airport was to boost tourism and turn the provinces along the Andaman coast into air transportation hubs. It is predicted that the construction process will last seven years, with three years devoted to research and development and four years to construction. By the time the airport opens in 2031, there should be a minimum of 15 million more tourists visiting the Andaman region annually.

 

The Prime Minister stressed the necessity for ongoing development in Phuket as one of the world’s top tourism destinations. He urged the responsible organizations to look out for and guarantee the safety of both locals and visitors.

 

Full story: NNT 2023-10-04

 

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Get out the begging bowls. The PM is visiting, so we should demand money on yet another useless project.

 

Don't worry about the fact that few people in the rest of Thailand will ever use it.

 

WE are more important than them anyway.

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

Get out the begging bowls. The PM is visiting, so we should demand money on yet another useless project.

 

Don't worry about the fact that few people in the rest of Thailand will ever use it.

 

WE are more important than them anyway.

How do you mean useless? What are you on about?

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The Andaman coast is comprised of the provinces of Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi, and Ranong.

and Trang and Satun.

The problem is not a missing airport, the problem is the lost "welcome" of Thais, the appreciation of tourists visiting and spending money without getting ripped-off at upto 25 times compared to what a local pays. What is missing is knowledge of foreign languages, reliability, punctuality and honesty. 

But the selected few in the driver seats make definitely more money in building or expanding airports while the underlings can do more or less whatever they want as it does not interest nor affect the upper crust ???? 

That's it! Carry on ruining an area that used to be a paradise and has, over the last 2/3 decades become just another tick on peoples' bucket lists!!! ????

As Joni sang "They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot"....... or in this case, yet another airport!

 

This has never been more relevant.

 

 

.kickback heaven...????????????