Thailand’s property market surges with Chinese confidence remaining high

Chinese investors are still spending big in Thailand’s property market. The country’s ‘teflon’ tourist reputation and uncertain national election outcomes are doing little subdue investor enthusiasm. Two coups in a decade have done little to cool...

31/10/2018

Central Commits to Phuket Lifestyle Mall

The Central Group of Companies, Thailand’s biggest retail conglomerate, plans to spend 1 billion baht to build its first outdoor lifestyle mall in the Bang Tao area of Phuket next year. Lertvit Pumipitak, the group’s...

11/09/2018

Phuket Now Has a World Class Shopping Hub

The population of Thailand is around 70 million people. I think most of them were at the opening night of the new Central Floresta yesterday. As far as openings go this must have put a...

07/09/2018

Phuket: Theme Parks and a Town Hotel

Phuket’s tourism is no longer just about beaches and one of the clearest signs is the arrival of new theme park attractions, shopping malls and hotels in and around Phuket town. In a tourism update...

09/08/2018

Banyan Tree Introduces Phuket Mixed-Use Development

Banyan Tree Group is introducing its newest mixed-use development called Dhawa Phuket, which is located in Banyan Tree’s Laguna Phuket integrated resort complex. Dhawa Phuket is an integrated development comprising three low-rise apartment buildings and...

07/08/2018

CBRE: Phuket Transformed Into Top Destination

With 8.4 million visitors in 2017 alone, Phuket is currently Thailand’s most popular island destination. The number of visitors set a new record for the fourth consecutive year. Looking back at past years, the island...

20/07/2018

Phuket Water Park Competition Heats Up

The water park battle in Phuket is about to get more intense as a number of new players are entering the marketplace, among them Blue Tree Phuket, which is set to open its doors come...

29/06/2018

Chinese Real Estate Investors Target Thailand for Value and Second Homes

Chinese real estate investors are snapping up more properties than ever before, according to a new survey from DBS. The focus for many of these buyers is now Thailand, and Southeast Asia as a whole,...

28/05/2018

New Greater Phuket Airport to Create Tourism Golden Triangle

An announcement by the Airports of Thailand (AoT) about approval of a plan for a new second Greater Phuket airport has created quite a stir in the tourism sector in one of Southeast Asia’s leading...

03/02/2018

New Phuket Smart Bus service to serve entire West Coast

PHUKET: The PKCD Smart Bus will begin its trial run in the coming week, ahead of its launch to provide a bus service along Phuket’s west coast at the end of this month. The move...