Singapore-sling blunder leaves Phuket Airport officials red-faced

[snoop1130]

Picture courtesy of Elena Shamis

 

By Bob Scott

 

Phuket International Airport is facing a social media storm after using a photo of Singapore’s iconic Peranakan Houses to promote the island, leaving locals scratching their heads and critics raising eyebrows.

 

Facebook user Ejijum Phuket didn’t hold back, spotlighting the public relations gaffe on his page, today, December 16. He shared a post about a friend’s perplexed inquiry after spotting the misplaced image upon landing at Phuket Airport.

 

“I’m so embarrassed. My friend arrived at Phuket Airport and sent me this picture asking where it was so he could take a picture. Oh, gosh! I’m so confused. Is this building in Lod Chong City? (Singapore). What’s with the confusion?

 

“Our houses are beautiful, full of mansions, and lots of shophouses on Thalang Road. Why didn’t you do that? You used your friend’s house to promote Phuket. What the hell!

 

 

“Are you embarrassing yourself? You’re so smart. Please take it down. You’re embarrassing yourself.”

 

Channel 3 Plus News reported his post quickly went viral, with an avalanche of comments following suit. Some poked fun at the oversight.

 

“He probably thinks that all the pictures are the same. So he won’t take any more pictures. He’ll definitely copy pictures from the Internet and print them out.”

 

The blunder has become the talk of the town, as residents rally for a correction and a celebration of Phuket’s true local charm, insisting that the gorgeous mansions and bustling shophouses of Thalang Road would surely do the trick.

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2024-12-16

 

 

[Chalong circle]

How many times pictures of Koh Phi Phi (Krabi province) have been used to promote Phuket...

[BangkokReady]

How does "Singapore-sling" factor into this?

[frank83628]

Wow, what a non story

[Maybole]

Luskentyre beach on the isle of Harris has been used to promote Caribbean holidays!

[harryviking]

Singapore Sling is a coctail!  ??????🙄

[Rickman66]

6 hours ago, frank83628 said:

Wow, what a non story

Massive!

[thesetat]

14 minutes ago, harryviking said:

Singapore Sling is a coctail!  ??????🙄

Yes

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The blunder has become the talk of the town, as residents rally for a correction and a celebration of Phuket’s true local charm,

Bangla road ?

[geisha]

The true story is, the officials had too many Singapore Slings, and hence the mixed up photographs .  Well, any better suggestions ? 

[ThailandRyan]

9 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

How does "Singapore-sling" factor into this?

I thought this was going to be a story of over-drinking of Singapore Slings at the Airport.....

[gravity101]

It's so obviously not Phuket. It has bins.

[BangkokReady]

8 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I thought this was going to be a story of over-drinking of Singapore Slings at the Airport.....

 

I thought it might contain some sort of reference to that, or perhaps someone having their arm in a sling.

 

As it is, I can't see any reason to include it in the title. It doesn't work as a pun unless their is some sort of double meaning.

[KannikaP]

10 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

How does "Singapore-sling" factor into this?

AI did it

[neeray]

Somebody just winged it and slung the wrong picture in the promo. Now their axx is in a sling thing.

[bokningar]

If it at least had been a picture of Raffles it could have made some sense.