A Phuket learning and action process

Phuket Regenerative Tourism Living Lab

From Voice to Action: Tourism as a Tool for a Better Place to Live.

A shared space for continuing learning, action and evidence: connecting voices from Phuket's tourism system and wider place community with work that can be owned, followed up and assessed.

285
participants
10
issue/topic groups
10
people in the initial core working team

Recorded from Phuket Tourism 2030: From Voice to Action, 19 September 2026 · Last updated 21 September 2026

Why Phuket

A mature destination with complex place pressures.

Phuket has a mature tourism economy and a wide range of people and organisations who shape it. The island also faces connected economic, social, environmental, infrastructure and quality-of-life pressures.

That complexity makes Phuket a useful place to learn from real conditions, rather than apply a ready-made model.

What already exists

A documented starting point, not an invented result.

Phuket Tourism 2030: From Voice to Action took place on 19 September 2026. It brought together 285 participants and generated 10 issue/topic groups. An initial core working team of 10 people is continuing the work.

The team is consolidating the 10 topics to identify issues, proposed actions, possible owners, follow-up and evidence of change. This work remains underway.

Read the forum case study →

How it works

From voice to evidence of change.

  1. 01

    Voice

    Listen to the issues, experience and priorities people bring.

  2. 02

    Action

    Turn broad topics into specific, testable next steps.

  3. 03

    Ownership

    Identify possible owners without assigning mandates that have not been agreed.

  4. 04

    Follow-up

    Record responsibilities, open questions and the next review point.

  5. 05

    Evidence of Change

    Track what changed, what did not, and what evidence supports that assessment.

What this is — and is not.

The Living Lab is a developing learning and action process. Its public record is intended to help people see where the work stands and what still needs to be learned.

It is not a certification scheme, a governing authority, a political-party project, or another discussion-only forum without follow-up.

Projects & Experiments

This area is structured to document future pilots through their objective, baseline, intervention, collaborators, indicators, evidence or results, and last-updated date. No project is currently presented as having demonstrated results.

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Connected knowledge and action

Phuket Local Connect is an early-stage platform and a separate initiative from Regenera Thailand. Where appropriate as the model develops, it may support evidence and action records. Visit Phuket Local Connect ↗