A small number of tourists is still arriving in the devastated Phuket , arriving in almost-empty planes to the surprise of the hundreds of Tsunami survivors trying to flee the tsunami disaster area of Thailand on the first plane out.

Our friends think that we are mad, said an arriving English tourist from Manchester, as he was drinking a gin and tonic on an arriving flight from the capital of Malaysia, last Wednesday. But the only risk we face is that there is another quake and another Tsunami, he said. he added that he himself and his two friends were booked in a beach-front hotel that escaped the Thailand Tsunami disaster. They had phoned the hotel before leaving Malaysia and the Phuket hotel staff had assured them that the hotel was working at usual and that they would have a wonderful holiday. We love Phuket and Thailand so much that we decided to take the risk, he further added.

They arrived at Phuket Airport while hundreds of Tsunami hit holiday-makers are still trying to get a seat on any flight out of Phuket more than 3-days after the most powerful earthquake in forty years triggered huge unleashed Tsunami waves that hit Thailand and other South-East Asia countries near the Indian Ocean and thousands of people lost their lives.

Along the battered beaches of South Thailand, more than 1,600 people have lost their lives and many more are still reported missing. But still the tourists and holidaymakers are trickling into Phuket.

Airport Taxi-driver Apochart said: Russians tourists are not canceling their Phuket holidays, I ferried 4 of them to their beach-side hotel only yesterday. Maybe they have much more problems where they come from, so they don't care about earthquakes and Tsunamis waves, Apochart added.

In the smoker section of the Phuket Airport departure lounge hundreds of stressed tourists, each with a traumatic story to tell, were waiting cloud of cigarette smoke to board their much earlier flight back home. But it was business as usual for the tourist industry and just before landing, the pilot of the Thai Airways flight out of Malasia announced to the few arriving tourists onboard that in Phuket, the weather was cloudy but otherwise fine.