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Bangkok Airways Leases Land in the Phang Nga Province
21st Dec 2016
Bangkok Airways has leased around 2,000 rai (320 hectares) of land for a new international airport in the Phang Nga province. The proposed airport will be located in Moo 4, Baan Tha Dinaeng, in the Lam Kaeng subdistrict of the Thai Muang district of the Phang Nga province.
The airport, which will apparently be named the Phang Nga-Adaman International Airport, will have a runway longer than the one in Koh Samui, as its length should be 3,000 meters. BA also manages the airport in the island of Samui and is doing it with great success.
No information on other facilities or how much everything will cost has been disclosed so far.
The environmental impact assessment is already under way and Bangkok Airways has submitted a proposal to the Royal Forestry Department.
The new airport should bring more tourists to the Phang Nga province and nearby Khao Lak, which has 104 hotels and other tourism accommodations, with a total of 7,822 rooms. Many of these are international tourists, who especially started making their presence known in the last few years.
The airport should also relieve some of the pressure from the Phuket Airport. Just last year, Phuket International Airport handled 6.4 million passengers and the nearby Krabi Airport another 1.8 million.
Local Tourism Growing Steadily Since 2004 Tsunami
Bill Barnet, Managing Director of C9 Hotelworks Co in Phuket commented on the growing tourism in the area following the devastating tsunami back in 2004:
What a difference a decade makes. The Thai resort market of Phang Nga is expected to achieve one million hotel guests in 2016. Roll back the clock to 2005 in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami the year before and fewer than 300,000 hotel guest arrivals materialized.
According to C9’s research, the period between 2010 and 2014 was crucial in turning the region from a seasonal destination to one where tourists want to come throughout the year. It is expected the trend to not only continue, but grow, as more tourists come pouring from China, Australia and the region in the coming years.
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