News Forum - Local tour operator, marina and restaurant come together to help Phuket residents

[Thaiger]

The following is a press release from 5 Star Marine, Ann’s Kitchen and Royal Phuket Marine on their one-day “Fundraising Experience” which raised 65,000 baht to help Phuket residents in need.  With the continued economic effect in Thailand from Covid-19, new and innovative charity efforts are needed to engage both expats and locals in order to help the 48,000+ Phuket residents in need. For the first time since 5 Star Marine started providing Life Bags to the local community over 18 months ago, they combined their resources with Royal Phuket Marina and Ann’s Kitchen and managed to raise 65,000 baht. The tour […]

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[Jason]

I am so glad to hear of these initiatives to help the people. I also think that an even greater help would be an influx of international tourists. They would be fully vaccinated and PCR tested to be Covid free. What international tourists need to be assured of, is that Phuket (and any other tourist destination in Thailand), have restrictions to entry from Thais from other parts of the country, so that Phuket truly is a quarantined area. If this can't be achieved, why would people come?

[Chaimai]

What would also help is if tourists could arrive via Bangkok.

 

There are a limited number of airlines flying directly into Phuket and transit through Suvarnabhumi would vastly increase potential numbers.

15 days quarantine in Bangkok will be a complete barrier for anyone wishing to go the Phuket.

Surely it is possible to create a transit 'bubble'?

[Nobodysfriend]

16 hours ago, Thaiger said:

which raised 65,000 baht to

 

16 hours ago, Thaiger said:

help the 48,000+ Phuket residents in need.

“The fundraising efforts came just in time as we received a call on Monday morning for emergency food relief support for over 750 families that are in immediate need of assistance. I feel so thankful to the people who attended on the tour on Sunday – allowing us now to feed these 750 families on Tuesday,” Shaun said.

What kind of joke is this ?

65000 baht for 48000 people ?

How much can you buy for 1,5 baht ?

Or 87 baht per family ?

Edited September 8, 2021 by Nobodysfriend

[KaptainRob]

6 minutes ago, Nobodysfriend said:

What kind of joke is this ?

65000 baht for 48000 people ?

How much can you buy for 1,5 baht ?

Or 87 baht per family ?

1500 bt buys a lot of rice.

5 - star marine have been at the forefront of providing aid on Phuket and every little bit helps.

[Stardust]

3 minutes ago, KaptainRob said:

1500 bt buys a lot of rice.

5 - star marine have been at the forefront of providing aid on Phuket and every little bit helps.

And it would help the people to get rid of the incompetent clowns in charge who are responsible for all the misery because of their greed and mismanagement in all fields than 1 baht they get.