02
Aug
2005
Mamzelle,
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Originally posted by Mamzelle_101In my opinion, Phuket even at a hundredth of the price is still way too expensive to risk one's life !!!
- It's fine if the price does not agree with some people, you have a
prerogative on the money you spend for a vacation.
It will take many years until they design a safe tsunami advance-warning system and until they re-design the coasts (no more hotel along beaches, a sea wall and vegetation behind beaches (to stop/slow down the waves), etc).
-No offense, but if you have kept up-to-date on the developments which have been published, you would know that in Asia, they now have warning systems which, in some areas are fully functioning and in others, very well in progress.
No thanks, not before a good ten years at least !!! In fact, even if they PAID me, I wouldn't go...
My opinion...
- Again, no offense, but it is the opinions of people like you that affect the livelihood of the very people you relied on before to ensure that you had a good vacation. Being well-informed and making choices based on your knowledge is one thing, but taking the "herd mentality" and making assumptions based on rumours are another. It's like saying I will not visit California or Tokyo because one had floods and another had earthquakes and I am afraid that it will happen when I was there!
For your info, the next tsunami predicted is about 150years away and the chances that it would happen in the next 10years is close to nil.
Places like Hawaii, Florida, even, Spain and I am sure Belgium have many developments by the coast. The way the world is going now, who is to say that a tsunami will not happen in any of these places.
All I am trying to say is that you should keep an open mind and examine the facts and not rely too much on the opinions of others - which might very well be wrong. I recently visited some friends in Phuket and the isalnd is doing fine - even if business is a bit slow. But what irks me is the fact that there are people like you who are keeping away from the place - or worse, discouraging other people from going - based on (maybe) unfounded fear of the unknown. And this affects the local people because they depend on people like you and me to send their kids to school and put food on the table.
Just my thoughts....
All in good time
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