Tourism Associations of Phuket and Samui seek direct flights with Kazakhstan

PHUKET, 15 June 2015 (NNT) – The Tourism Associations of Phuket Province and Surat Thani’s Samui Island, will join the “Amazing Road Show to Kazakhstan 2015” organized by the Tourism Authority of Thailand in the Kazakh cities of Almaty and Astana from 15 to 20 June in order to open new tourist markets.

Vice President of the Phuket Tourism Association Bhuritt Maswongssa said that tens of thousands of Kazakhs travelled to Phuket each year. Most of them come to the island in the high season, by charter flights as no direct flight is available at present.

If an official effort to open direct flights between the two countries is successful, it will definitely raise the number of tourist arrivals from Kazakhstan, Mr. Bhuritt said, adding that a direct flight would also promote a year-round tourism as it will motivate more Kazakhs to visit Thailand in the low season.

According to Mr. Bhuritt, representatives of the Phuket Tourism Association will meet with CEOs of Air Astana, the national airline of Kazakhstan, on 17 June to discuss a possibility of opening a Phuket-Astana direct flight.

On 19 June, Thai delegates are scheduled to pay a courtesy call on Kazakh Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism in order to exchange views and information about their tourism industry and future cooperation.


-- NNT 2015-06-15

They must be getting desperate.

The answer isn't pumping vast numbers of low end tourists onto Phuket, but to fix Phuket's many problems that are repelling the western tourist market.

Nice to know they are targeting high end tourists.

Next year in Patong.

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Things must be getting desperate have to admit that I have never known Koh Samui to be so quiet if it wasn't for the Chinese and Koreans the place would be in big trouble !

Things must be getting desperate have to admit that I have never known Koh Samui to be so quiet if it wasn't for the Chinese and Koreans the place would be in big trouble !

Phuket is the same, if it was not for the Chinese , it would be so so quiet, even tumbleweed rolling through....

Cant be a better partnership, both countries is on the safety concern list to ICAO