A US aircraft carrier, the USS George HW Bush, is scheduled to call at Phuket from Oct 4-9 with about 4,800 personnel plus a destroyer with about 320. Police and US Embassy officials are arranging security, and Thai authorities have asked the visiting sailors to follow Thai law. If you run a hotel, restaurant, tour, transport or shop in Phuket, expect a short surge in foreign visitors. The Pattaya visit a month earlier was reported to have brought about 100 million baht into the local economy, which gives a rough sense of the scale.