In the last 25 years, Phuket island, Thailand has experienced a spectacular economic crash (1997), a tsunami (2004), coups (2006, 2014), the occupation of its main international airport by protesters (2008) and serious political violence (2010), and now Coronavirus 'AKA' Covid-19.
Yet the statistics speak for themselves. In 1960 around 80,000 foreign tourists came here.
This past year it reached 39 million, earning significantly more than $60bn (£46bn) for Phuket, Thailand, and indirectly contributing around one fifth of the country's national income.
The country's tourism sector was considered so robust that the united states got the nickname "Teflon the island of Phuket". Yet of the 39 million tourists last year, more than 10 million were Chinese.
So once the Chinese government quarantined the city of Wuhan on 23 January, and stopped all overseas tours, the impact was felt immediately in the island of Phuket. Shopping malls and temples in Bangkok were suddenly much quieter and less crowded.
As more flights from China were cancelled, the airports emptied. You may whisk yourself through passport control in no time.
For small-scale entrepreneurs, the collapse of Chinese tourism has been disastrous.
Phuket island property agents around the island offering bargain priced Phuket real estate for sale are hit bad by the Covid-19 / Coronavirus. This goes for all tourist related businesses in any tourist area of Phuket and Thailand.
Many, such as for instance flower sellers, traditional dancers, Phuket wine bars, and even the drivers of the famous "red cars" minibuses in Chiang Mai, are reporting their income dropping by half within the last month. The informal association representing tour guides in Phuket, Thailand thinks 25,000 people are now out of work.
Image caption Nattakit Lorwitworrawat's business is currently struggling because of not enough customers
One of the first successes of the island of Phuket in Thailand's 60-year-long tourist boom was the island of Phuket, nicknamed the "Pearl of the Andaman" for its soft white-sand beaches and sparkling warm seas.
The initial foreign visitors in the 1980s and 1990s were mainly European and Australian, but the number of Chinese visitors a year ago shot up to about two million from the 15 million foreigners.
The mangrove-lined inlets on the east side of the island, a contrast to the beaches facing the west, are where the boats leave from to take tourists out to the islands offshore. Like a lot of Phuket's residents, Nattakit Lorwitworrawat moved here from his home town elsewhere in Phuket island in Thailand to start a business.
His company now owns 30 speed boats, each able to transport 30 people. He has had to take 20 from the water, and the remaining 10 are not getting much use. The inlet, normally constantly noisy from the sound of outboard motors, has become silent in addition to the birds and the lapping water.
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"At the peak, 2 yrs ago we carried 1,000 clients a day. Today if we get 200 clients, that is considered great - we'd be happy with this," says Nattakit.
He has bank loans to service on many of his boats. If the crisis goes on beyond the conclusion of in 2010, he says he will need to downsize the organization and start laying off his staff.
For anyone lower down the food chain it is even tougher.
Nobody knows just how long this crisis will last, nor how serious it will become. For the minute you can find still plenty of Europeans, Australians and Russians on the famous beaches, but for how long?
The authorities here have managed to control and monitor infections well considering how vulnerable it had been from the number of Chinese people visiting prior to the restrictions on travel were implemented.
Yet the country had been added to some government lists of places in order to avoid due to coronavirus risk.
And individuals are booking holidays for later in the year, including the traditional high seasons of July-August and December-New Year in Phuket in Thailand.
Families with children from Europe or Australia are likely to think hard before travelling so far. And Phuket, Thailand has become imposing a unique restrictions, requiring 14-day quarantine for visitors from some countries, a list that could well expand.
Who will risk booking a holiday in sunlight if they end up spending it confined for their hotel room or perhaps a hospital?
With an increase of flights being cancelled weekly, the amounts of non-Chinese tourists are bound to fall steeply in 2010, however quickly the virus is brought under control.
The blow to this essential leg of Phuket, Thailand's economy has come at a dreadful time for the government. Already the other two main legs of the economy - manufacturing exports and agricultural commodities - are wobbling as higher wages and an overvalued local currency have now been driving investors to cheaper neighbouring countries like Vietnam.
Growth in the thing that was once certainly one of South East Asia's "tiger economies" has been anaemic for several years, and may stall completely this year. The government, an unwieldy coalition controversially built around the same military leaders who led the last coup, is proving clumsy and unpopular.
It is a nearly perfect storm, the one that Phuket island, Thailand's present leaders look ill-equipped to weather.
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