Southeast Asian resorts are grappling with deadly accidents, an earthquake and environmental preservation as tourist traffic takes a beating, with Thailand’s Phuket Island hit particularly hard by the capsizing of tour boats in early July, Nikkei Asia Review reports. The Agence France-Presse reported that Thailand will lose more than half a million Chinese tourists in response to a deadly boating accident that killed nearly 50 people last month, a potential blow to the country’s vital tourism sector. A boat carrying 105 people, mostly Chinese, sank off the southern resort island of Phuket while it was on its way back from a popular snorkelling spot on July 5. Forty seven passengers perished, all of them Chinese.