Phuket Fantasy Shuts Its Doors

[george]

Phuket Fantasy shuts its doors

Phuket: -- Phuket Fantasy amusement park has been temporarily closed because of a sharp drop in the number of visitors following the tsunami disaster.

Pin Kewkacha, chairman of Phuket Fantasy Plc, said his amusement park has suffered a loss of 150-200 million baht due to the lack of visitors. So he decided to close it from Jan 8-18.

The park was usually visited by 3,000-6,000 tourists a day.

The number has dropped to about 15 a day. Tour companies had cancelled their reservations until the end of next month.

Mr Pin said Phuket usually hosted about one million tourists, 25% Thais and 75% foreigners, from January to March, but the number of visitors had virtually dropped to zero. The problem was now critical for the 500,000 people who work in tourism-related businesses in the six tsunami-hit provinces, he said.

--Bangkok Post 2005-01-09

[sriracha john]

The unscrupulous Mr. Pin was on the television news last night trying to defend his encroachment and take-over of public lands for his private business Fantasea... but not doing so very convincingly...

He came off as the epitome of the corrupt businessman.

[chingy_]

he also an owner of SAFARI world which under investigatin

[Backpack_thailand]

So with all the "We need tourism to re-build" campaigns going on, one of the major attractions is now shut!

I though this was a "businessman"!!!!

He obviously doesn't have the best interests of Phuket at heart, just his own!

WONKER!

[Sphere]

His dual pricing practices have been reported here:

http://www.fairprice-thailand.org/facility.php?facility=35

[sriracha john]

criminy.... he's worse than I thought....thanks Chingy.

[sriracha john]

His dual pricing practices have been reported here:

http://www.fairprice-thailand.org/facility.php?facility=35

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thanks for a most informative website, Sphere...

[Sphere]

You're welcome SJ