Within 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.
A year ago it reached 39 million, earning a lot more than $60bn (£46bn) for Phuket, Thailand, and indirectly contributing around one fifth of the country's national income.
The country's tourism sector was considered so robust that the nation got the nickname "Teflon the island of Phuket in Thailand". Yet of the 39 million tourists a year ago, over 10 million were Chinese.
So when the Chinese government quarantined the city of Wuhan on 23 January, and stopped all overseas tours, the impact was felt immediately in Phuket, 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 travel offices around the island offering budget priced Phuket property 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 island in Thailand bars, and even the drivers of the famous "red cars" minibuses in Chiang Mai, are reporting their income dropping by half within the last month. The informal association representing tour guides in the island of Phuket thinks 25,000 people are now actually out of work.
Image caption Nattakit Lorwitworrawat's business is currently struggling because of not enough customers
Among the first successes of the island of Phuket'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 very first foreign visitors in the 1980s and 1990s were mainly European and Australian, but the amount of Chinese visitors last year shot as much as about two million out of 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 hawaiian islands offshore. Like many of Phuket's residents, Nattakit Lorwitworrawat moved here from his home town elsewhere in Phuket, Thailand to start a business.
His company now owns 30 speed boats, each able to carry 30 people. He has already established to take 20 out of the water, and the remaining 10 are not getting much use. The inlet, normally constantly noisy from the sound of outboard motors, is currently silent independent of 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 if we get 200 clients, that is considered great - we'd be happy with that," says Nattakit.
He's bank loans to service on many of his boats. If the crisis continues on beyond the end of this season, he says he will need to downsize the business and start laying off his staff.
For anyone lower down the meals chain it's even tougher.
Nobody knows how long this crisis lasts, nor how serious it'll become. For the minute you can find still lots of Europeans, Australians and Russians on the famous beaches, but also for just how long?
The authorities here have managed to regulate and monitor infections well considering how vulnerable it absolutely was from the number of Chinese people visiting before the restrictions on travel were implemented.
Yet the country had been added to some government lists of places to prevent due to coronavirus risk.
And individuals are booking holidays for later in the year, including the original high seasons of July-August and December-New Year in Phuket, Thailand.
Families with children from Europe or Australia are likely to think hard before travelling so far. And Phuket, Thailand has become imposing its restrictions, requiring 14-day quarantine for visitors from some countries, a list that will well expand.
Who'll risk booking a vacation in the sun if they end up spending it confined with their college accommodation or even a hospital?
With an increase of flights being cancelled every week, the variety of non-Chinese tourists are bound to fall steeply in 2010, however quickly the virus is brought under control.
The blow to this essential leg of Phuket in Thailand's economy has come at an awful time for the government. Already one other 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 what was once one of South East Asia's "tiger economies" has been anaemic for several years, and may stall completely this year. The government, an unwieldy coalition controversially built around the same military leaders who led the last coup, is proving clumsy and unpopular.
It is a nearly perfect storm, the one that the island of Phuket in Thailand's present leaders look ill-equipped to weather.
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