In the last 25 years, the island of Phuket 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.
The statistics speak for themselves. In 1960 around 80,000 foreign tourists came here.
Last year it reached 39 million, earning significantly more than $60bn (£46bn) for Phuket island in 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 Phuket in Thailand". Yet of the 39 million tourists this past year, more than 10 million were Chinese.
So once the Chinese government quarantined the town of Wuhan on 23 January, and stopped all overseas tours, the impact was felt immediately in the island of Phuket in Thailand. 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, Thailand real estate shops around the island offering low-priced Phuket properties 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 flower sellers, traditional dancers, Phuket island bars, and even the drivers of the famous "red cars" minibuses in Chiang Mai, are reporting their income dropping by half in the last month. The informal association representing tour guides in Phuket in Thailand thinks 25,000 people are now actually out of work.
Image caption Nattakit Lorwitworrawat's business is currently struggling as a result of insufficient customers
Among 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" because of its soft white-sand beaches and sparkling warm seas.
The first 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 many of Phuket's residents, Nattakit Lorwitworrawat moved here from his home town elsewhere in Phuket to start a business.
His company now owns 30 speed boats, each able to carry 30 people. He has received to take 20 out of the water, and the rest of the 10 are not getting much use. The inlet, normally constantly noisy from the sound of outboard motors, has become silent apart from the birds and the lapping water.
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"At the peak, two years ago we carried 1,000 clients a day. Today if we get 200 clients, that is considered great - we would be very happy with that," says Nattakit.
He has bank loans to service on lots of his boats. If the crisis continues beyond the conclusion of in 2010, he says he will need to downsize the organization and start laying off his staff.
For those lower down the food chain it is even tougher.
Nobody knows how long this crisis can last, nor how serious it will become. For as soon as you will find still a lot of Europeans, Australians and Russians on the famous beaches, however for how long?
The authorities here have managed to manage and monitor infections well considering how vulnerable it absolutely was from the number of Chinese people visiting prior to the restrictions on travel were implemented.
Yet the country was already placed on some government lists of places to prevent as a result of coronavirus risk.
And people are booking holidays for later in the season, including the traditional high seasons of July-August and December-New Year in Phuket island.
Families with children from Europe or Australia are likely to think before travelling so far. And Phuket island in Thailand is now imposing its restrictions, requiring 14-day quarantine for visitors from some countries, a listing that'll well expand.
Who'll risk booking a vacation in sunlight if they end up spending it confined with their accommodation or a hospital?
With increased flights being cancelled weekly, the amounts of non-Chinese tourists are bound to fall steeply this season, however quickly the virus is brought under control.
The blow to the essential leg of Phuket island's economy has come at an awful time for the government. Already another two main legs of the economy - manufacturing exports and agricultural commodities - are wobbling as higher wages and an overvalued local currency have been driving investors to cheaper neighbouring countries like Vietnam.
Growth in that which was once among South East Asia's "tiger economies" has been anaemic for several years, and may stall completely this year. The federal government, an unwieldy coalition controversially built around exactly the same military leaders who led the past coup, is proving clumsy and unpopular.
It's an almost perfect storm, the one that Phuket island, Thailand's present leaders look ill-equipped to weather.
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