Business

It has become clear in the past few months that Thailand’s beach resorts are undergoing a significant surge in interest from visitors and businessmen, who are arriving in increasing numbers and bringing with them investments in business and property.

The first “standalone” Power Buy electronics store had its grand opening on December 2 in Central Pattaya, located near Foodland Supermarket on Central Pattaya Road and will help fill the raging demand Russian and other Eastern European consumers have for less expensive, higher quality TVs, computers, DVD players, mobile phones, entertainment systems and other products. This store offers ease of shopping as it has its own street level parking area and is on the baht bus line. This will be the first Power Buy to have its own facility — not located within malls, like its predecessors.

Unsure of the near term results of Bangkok sinking below sea level and the possibility of a major flood, some major Bangkok developers listened to Thaksin and in 2006 and began investing in Pattaya and areas outside of Bangkok.