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The scuba diving industry on Phuket is profiting from a growth of visitors to the island – it’s the for Phuket as an island alltogether but especially the area around Patong city.
Phuket and with it the most famous beach holiday resort Patong are expanding and growing at an incredible speed. More and more hotels, resorts, apartment houses are being built for more and more people. The tourism industry of Phuket and Patong, and with it all other beach destinations as well like the beaches of Karon and Kata to the south and Kamala, Surin and Bangtao beaches to the north of Patong are profiting from this increase of tourists on the island.
Where there are tourists also the number of visitors interested in scuba diving increases. This is the “Phuket Patong Diving” effect.
Phuket Patong Diving
Where there are more tourists there are more divers. Divers are people who hold a scuba diving certificate and have done a scuba diving course. The divers appreciate the convenience of scuba diving on Phuket. You want to go scuba diving on Phuket – you first search on the internet and after you make a phone call – that’s how easy it is. Or once on Phuket you get out of your hotel and where there are many bars, restaurants, tailors and tour counters – is for sure a scuba diving centre not far away.
Where there are more tourists there are more non-divers. Non-divers are getting effect by the “Phuket Patong Diving” effect. Those who are principally interested in scuba diving do have it easy on Phuket too. Simply by browsing through the internet and checking what there is to do on vacation on Phuket or in Patong you will inevitably come across scuba diving.
For those you have never done any diving or have never done a dive course and getting a dive certificate there are the following programs from the certification & dive education agency PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors);
- PADI Discover scuba diving program: one day with 2 dives
- PADI Scuba Diver course: 2 days with one day-trip with 2 dives
- PADI Open Water Diver course: 3 days with 2 days diving with 4 dives
Merlin divers dive company on Kamala beach is certainly glad about the “Phuket Patong Diving” effect. Not only did the visitor numbers to the beach resort town of Kamala itself increase and therefore bringing more customers to the dive shop Merlin Divers. The customers coming from all over the island – and more and more customers are actually coming from the bigger resort “cities” like Patong, Karon and Kata beach.
For Merlin divers – Kamala Diving Center on Phuket – the dive centre and scuba dive school the “Phuket Patong Diving” effect is certainly a welcome and very positive effect for the business. There are however negative aspect to the whole development – for the island as a whole but also for the scuba diving in the area of Phuket and it’s environment. More about this will follow.
