THAILAND - Accidents and crime Phuket’s biggest tourism threats

Phuketgazette.net, November 24, 2006

PHUKET: Despite fears of terrorism, natural disasters and health pandemics, government officials rate everyday crime and road accidents as the greatest dangers to Phuket’s tourism industry, a Phuket Provincial Tourism Management Strategy (PPTRMS) workshop revealed on Tuesday.

During the workshop, at the Royal Phuket City Hotel, government officials were presented with the results of a survey from the previous workshop, held on August 22, when attendees were divided into four groups.

Each group was asked to collectively assign a “likelihood” and “consequence” rating of 1, 2 or 3 to 12 potential threats, with the total “level of risk” calculated as the product of the two ratings.

The overall results found that “crime” had the highest overall risk level (7) on average, followed by “road accidents” (6).

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