Over the past 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.
The statistics speak for themselves. In 1960 around 80,000 foreign tourists came here.
A year ago it reached 39 million, earning a lot more than $60bn (£46bn) for the island of Phuket 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 country got the nickname "Teflon Phuket in Thailand". Yet of the 39 million tourists last year, over 10 million were Chinese.
So when 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 island, Thailand property agencies around the island offering low-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.
Most of them, such as for instance flower sellers, traditional dancers, Phuket 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 thinks 25,000 people are now out of work.
Image caption Nattakit Lorwitworrawat's business is currently struggling due to a insufficient customers
Among the first successes of Phuket island, Thailand's 60-year-long tourist boom was the island of Phuket, nicknamed the "Pearl of the Andaman" for the 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 this past year shot around about two million out 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 in fact the boats leave from to take tourists out to the hawaiian islands offshore. Like a lot of Phuket's residents, Nattakit Lorwitworrawat moved here from his home town elsewhere in the island of Phuket in Thailand to take up a business.
His company now owns 30 speed boats, each able to carry 30 people. He has already established 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, is now silent in addition to the birds and the lapping water.
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"At the peak, couple of years ago we carried 1,000 clients a day. Today when we get 200 clients, that is considered excellent - we would be happy with this," says Nattakit.
He has bank loans to service on many of his boats. If the crisis continues beyond the finish of in 2010, he says he will have to downsize the organization and start laying off his staff.
For anyone lower down the meals chain it's even tougher.
Nobody knows just how long this crisis will last, nor how serious it'll become. For the minute there are still lots of Europeans, Australians and Russians on the famous beaches, however for the length of time?
The authorities here have managed to control and monitor infections well considering how vulnerable it was from the number of Chinese people visiting prior to the restrictions on travel were implemented.
Yet the nation was already added to some government lists of places to prevent due to coronavirus risk.
And people are booking holidays for later in the entire year, including the traditional high seasons of July-August and December-New Year in Phuket island.
Families with children from Europe or Australia will probably think hard before travelling so far. And Phuket island in Thailand is now 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 find yourself spending it confined for their accommodation or a hospital?
With an increase of flights being cancelled each week, the amounts of non-Chinese tourists are bound to fall steeply this year, however quickly the virus is brought under control.
The blow to this essential leg of Phuket island's economy has come at a terrible 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 among South East Asia's "tiger economies" has been anaemic for many years, and may stall completely this year. The us government, an unwieldy coalition controversially built around exactly the same military leaders who led the past coup, is proving clumsy and unpopular.
It is an almost perfect storm, one which the island of Phuket in Thailand's present leaders look ill-equipped to weather.
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