A lone customer walks past a swimming pool at the Vijitt Resort in Phuket, which has seen a lack of tourists due to ongoing restrictions relating to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. Today, nearly all the island's 3,000 hotels are closed and the main town of Patong has become a "ghost town", says local tycoon Preechawut Keesin, who owns five night clubs and around 600 hotel rooms, during a recent ...