Business and Tourism is booming on the East-Coast of Thailand and the Pattaya hotels are jam-packed with tourists, some tourists are even sleeping on the beach, waiting until hotel rooms comes available, and all this as a result of the Tsunami hitting Phuket and the Southern resorts of Thailand.

Holidaymakers are looking for new destinations. Many vacationers are already in Thailand and they don't want to go to Phuket, Phang Nga, Khao Lak or Krabi, said Chidchai Sakornbodee, who is the head of the Association of Thai Travel Agents.

Holidaymakers have chosen to move to the resorts along the Gulf of Thailand such as Pattaya, Koh Samet and Koh Samui, a world away from the Tsunami catastrophe that hit Thailand's South-Western beaches on 26 December 2005.

Koh Samui and Pattaya hotels are full, said Sakornbodee, and restaurants are crowded with customers. In the evenings Pattaya's also Pattaya's famous Walking Street is crowded as never seen before.

Currently between 20,000 and 25,000 tourists are arriving on the island of Koh Samui every day, by far exceeding the 15,000 available hotel rooms of the island of Samui.