January 05, 2005

Phuket still on holiday radar

Australians are refusing to cancel holidays to Thailand's tsunami-devastated southern beach resort island of Phuket because they want to do what they can to help the locals struggling to cope with the loss of thousands of lives.
Big airlines and travel agents said Australian holidaymakers were determined to ignore Federal Government warnings about travel to the island, despite the increasing risk of typhoid, cholera, malaria and dengue.

Thai Airways International spokeswoman Sue Marr said many Australians were "hell-bent" on getting to Phuket.

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