Phuket
Phuket is a wonderful island, that in some parts has conserved all Thai traditions. It is situated in the Andaman Sea and has white beaches and barrier reef on the coast while in the hinterland the villages have custom and life styles typically of the previous century.
On Phuket there are coconut tree and gum tree orchards, they have been the only business until decades ago.
The airport, now nerve centre for vacations and tourism, was built for the tin traders and the gum traders, in this way they could reach the zones to sell the natural resources on the island. Phuket was in a status of semi-isolation due to its inaccessible streets, the distance from the capital city Bangkok, the absence of a connected bridge with the rest of the thai peninsula, but overall the indifference towards tourism business.
At the end of the 70s the knowledge about the natural beauty has released the island.
First of all, Phuket became the destination of the backpackers, people without any pretensions, and of the people who wanted a wild holiday, but later it is became a massive tourist destination.
Nowadays Phuket is the second richest city in Thailand, after Bangkok, thanks to the massive tourism that required a bigger airport and best condition on vacations. These requirements needed even more local investment, that brought huge internal earnings. Now Phuket is inhabited by person arrived from all the Thailand, that work in the tourism sector.
The beautiful is that is always possible to find fishermen villages (e.g. the wonderful "Gypsy village" in Rawaii) that are out of tourism.
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