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

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.

he also an owner of SAFARI world which under investigatin

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!

His dual pricing practices have been reported here:

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

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

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...

You're welcome SJ