Impact of Tourism

Now there's a lot of tourists visited Phuket, so they need to cut down trees to build restaurants for tourists and, hotels, also more shopping centre.

Since beaches and nightlife is the most popular place in Phuket, So tourists mostly went to the beaches and when there's a lot of tourists. They started to build Hotels and resorts, which it's causing Pollution because they normally dump sewage and garbages in the sea. Also the amount of boats that used for bring Tourists to another island in phuket ( Koh Hae, Koh Yao Noi, etc).  And now Coral reefs are destroying by diving, Snorkelers, water pollution and anchors

The Beach used to be a place for Sea gypsies and local people to swim and do fishing, but after the increasing amount of Tourists and more hotels and restaurants were built. The sea gypsies were forced to moved to a certain areas and now  most beaches are owned by Hotel developers.

In the main areas for example,  Patong. Most of the shops that were on the streets were mostly set in a foreigners prices. For examples if one shoes cost 100 Baht and if your foreigners. It will cost around 150 - 200 baht.

Saphan Hin Park in Phuket

This is the monument of the tin mining that was built in 1968, which its located in the traffic circle for a memory for Australian captain, Edward T miles who brought the first degraded to Phuket.

Saphan hin is a popular seaside walk and it's place for Thai people to spend their times at. And it's also a place for events, such as Songkarn day, Loy kratong, concerts and a very famous, important event, vegetarian festival. Nowadays people normally went to the mall because it's the place that had an air- con. But in the past, Saphan Hin is the place to spend a families pinic on the weekend.   

Saphan Hin also has a stadium, which its the main sports centre. The stadium is  for basketball, badminton, tennis, swimming pool, and football field. It's available at 16:00 PM.

On the south end of Saphan hin you will be able to find a Chinese Shrine called Kiew Tian Shrine. And on the west of Sapahin Hi there's a BangYai canels flow into the sea, which before its used to for transporting goods.

Patong in the 80's

In the 80’s, bungalows was near the middle of Patong beach but later it turns to Bangla road where there’s a lot tourists. 

Before, Bangla road was just a road with little amount of cars and it’s a very small road and a short road (Soi). People normally lived there and it’s not yet the popular place in Phuket, but now it changed to a Soi full with nightclubs and neon lights for tourists.

Patong is one of the popular place in Phuket and it's a place for partying and play. Patong is very small but has a lot of building such as hotels, bars, shopping centre ( Jungceylon) for tourists.

Patong is the place that attracted tourists the most because of the exciting nightlife and people talked about it a lot and also because of the beaches that attract tourists eyes from all over the world.Even after the Tsunami, Patong is still the most popular place in this island. Even though it took a while to set up things and build some new building.

Tourism In Phuket

Tourism began in Phuket in the 1970s. Phuket has a very clear and warm beaches that attracted Travellers from all around the world, but the main travellers are people around Thailand, especially Chinese people because things in Phuket are very cheap and surrounded  by others island for examples, Koh PHI PHI, Koh Hea, Koh James Bond, Koh Lone, Koh Yao, etc.  But Phi Phi is very popular and it's the most visited departing Phuket because of beautiful bays and beaches. Phuket also have more than 30 beaches. 

• Patong beach - A place for party 
• Karon Beach - Karon  is the third longest beach  in Phuket
• Surin Beach - A good place for snacks and BBQ seafood and a cool drink. 
• Kata Noi Beach- Kata Noi is a quiet and a peaceful beach.
• Bang Tao Beach - Bang Tao is the longest beach in Phuket 
• Nai Harn beach - Nai harn is one of the popular beach in Phuket. 

Summary of Phuket

History Of Phuket

Phuket or known as ‘Pearl of the south” is the largest Island in the west coasts of Thailand in the Andaman sea. The name “Phuket” came from Malay word, which means “hill”. The island used to be known as Junk Ceylon in European chart.

Phuket was attacked by the burmese in 1785, so the two sisters called Lady Chan and Lady Muk fight against Burmese and won the battle. And after the war, king rama I show his appreciation of the two sisters by giving them the honorary and titles of Thao Thepkasattri Thao Sri Sunthorn. After lady Chan and Lady Muk passed away King Rama VI had an idea to build a monuments for the two sisters, so whenever Thai people drive past the monuments they will pay respect by putting theri hands together.

Phuket is first  mentioned  as a major source of tin in sixth century but nowadays tin mining industry has already disappeared and become less because of the collapse in tin prices. In the twenties century large area of phuket were cleared for doing Rubber plantation and now we can still  see the rubber plantation in Phuket.

In the 1970’s, tourism began with the first beach bungalows in Patong. Phuket has a clear beaches and warm water so it attract traveller from other countries, and making phuket one of the most popular travel place in South East Asia. One of the most famous place in Phuket is patong. Also in the 1967’s, Sarasin bridge was link to Phang Nga which make more visitors come and visit Phuket.

Thailand was hit by Tsunami caused by Indian ocean earthquakes on 26 december 2004 or known as a boxing day. In West coast of Phuket such as Patong, Karon, Kamala and Kata beach was hit  by Tsunami, 259 including tourist were reported dead and total of injured is 1,111.

The sea Gypsies or Chao Lei spend their lives living on the boat.They will do fishing, men will practice diving and women will take care their children and home. They normally make money by selling shells and pearls. Some people believe that they came from India and some said that they are from Burma from the Muslim invasion. Today, they have their own religions. They believe that they need to bring dead people to the death islands so their souls can live forever, Also “Loy Ruea festival” by releasing a wooden boats to the sea which they believe that releasing wooden boats will get rid of the bad thing so they can live in peace and happily.