HBO’s hit series White lotus Any tropical background could be chosen for its third season.
This season chose a population of about 68,000 to show the 15 million average audience this season, Thailand’s bresting is for a tourism bounce. And more than two are standing to benefit the local ultra-rich tycoon, which believe that tourists will continue to come, and they will recall its lush green forests and stunning beaches instead of the dark plots of the season, which ended on 6 April.
Bangkok Airways PCL CEO Putipong Prasartong-Osoth, and his family’s money is closely associated with Samui, dating back in the 1980s when his father bets at an airport to seize the island’s tourism ability. According to the Bloomberg billionaire index, the fate of the clan is around $ 3.5 billion.
HBO selected the local four season as its main set, which proved to be a boon for William “Bill” Henkeke, a Thai businessman of American origin, who established the Minor International PCL, which owns the property. According to the index, his personal fate is estimated at $ 1.2 billion, which is evaluating his net worth for the first time.
But meditation from the series, which is expected to help the country reach 40 million visitors this year, can be fleeting above 35.5 million in 2024. White Lotus, a show that dives the ultra -rich plays of the holidays at luxury resorts, has gone to a new location in each season – the previous series was shot in Sicily and Hawaii – a short -term boom.
Businessmen are happy to connect the brands of their companies with a conspiracy to collide with the dark side of most characters – including a father who is traveling with his family and thinking of constant suicide and another guest who plans to kill the resort owner.
In addition to the challenging conspiracy, the international arrival in neighboring Myanmar was expected to reduce the international arrival by 15% in two weeks after a deadly earthquake.
“Our plans and estimates remain intact,” Heneke said on 1 April. According to the company’s founder, the bangkok-list is a recorded minor international this year for a record net profit, due to the increase in demand by tourists, according to the company’s founder.
The Bangkok Airways CEO told reporters at a press conference on March 28, the earthquake was felt in Thai capital on the same day, that the expected short -term impact on tourism is minimal, and that the carrier’s estimates for the year are unchanged.
Airport expansion
The airline of Prasarttong -Soth is ordering more than 30 new aircraft and will start expanding the local airport in the second half, this year a record is expected to land 2.7 million tourists on the island, which is about four times the manhattan-shaped size and the second largest island in Thailand. His Bangkok Airways provided about 1,000 free tickets to the crew of production and artists, mostly to reach the sea.
The Samui route, which already originated close to 60% of the revenue of the carrier last year, will now become even more important. The CEO said that the flying capacity to the island is expected to increase to 73 from about 50 returns per day. The ownership of the island’s only airport carrier gives it a virtual monopoly on flights – while the ghat in Surat Thani’s coastal city may take from 30 minutes to four hours.
He said that even after hane, he is also moving fast as white lotus, who had never thought of holidaying in Thailand before, especially from Europe and America, he said. His luxury hotel brand Anantara – was launched in 2001 and Thai is planning to open its first hotel in the US early next year – inspired by traditional elements.
Four hotels in Minor that were used as primary filming places to portray a fictional resort in Thailand, were fully rented for filming for six weeks at a time.
Beyond island
Even before the arrival of White Lotus Thailand, the two Prasartong-Osoth family and Henke Koh were creating their empires beyond the sea.
92-year-old doctor, Putipong’s father Prasert Prasarttong -Soth, established Bangkok DuCit Medical Services PCL in 1969, Thailand’s largest private sector health care provider from market value that runs more than 50 hospitals in Thailand and Cambodia. His daughter Pormporn is the president of the Prasartong-Oth firm.
In the 1960s, the big Prasartong-Osoth on the aviation industry started betting, and in 1989 opened an airport on Samui. Subsequently, to convince the bankers that it was difficult to convince the project to explain that the destination would become popular anytime, Putipong said.
Meanwhile, Henne went to Thailand with his parents as a teenager, rejected the opportunity to go to the university in America at the age of 17 as he already had a business to sell advertisements in a local paper. Stiring a head to his youth, he called his runaway business a minor.
His hospitality undertakings began in 1978 with a beach-folded resort in the coastal city of Pattaya, about 90 miles from Bangkok, and developed in one of Asia’s largest hospitality groups with 560 hotels in more than 50 countries. After purchasing Spain’s NH Hotel Group SA in 2018, Minor took a big step in his global expansion.
The show’s favorite character in the show is an employee played by Lalisa Manoball, a Thai celebrity, a member of the K-Pap Phenomanon Blackpink and a follower over 105 million on her Instagram.
Henke said, “She is opening a new type of luxury seekers of a younger generation as she follows a huge follower globally.” “It is actually a lot of chains, and promotion of promotion.”
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