PHUKET: Taxi drivers who organised a blockade at a Phuket resort are to be arrested, a meeting was told at Phuket International Airport today.

A previously unreported incident involving taxi drivers took place near Cape Sienna Hotel and Villas in Kamala last week, the meeting heard.

A cape Sienna incident would be the third publicly acknowledged incident triggered by Phuket taxi drivers since the Department of Special Investigation began its campaign to end corruption and break taxi and tuk-tuk monopolies on Phuket on August 9.

Blockades have taken place at Serenity Resort and Residences in Rawai and at the newly opened Novotel Phuket Kamala Beach Resort.

What happened in the third incident is not yet clear.

Vice Governor Jamleran Tipayapongtada told the airport meeting today that there had been an incident outside Cape Sienna last week. He did not elaborate.

The roadway at Cape Sienna was the setting for a 2011 incident at the five-star resort - a Phuketwan Resort of the Year - when guests were terrorised by taxi drivers.

A tour van driver received 50,000 baht in compensation after the windscreen of his vehicle was shattered with a crowbar.

Australian tourists Glenn and Deidre Dawson, who were guests at Cape Sienna, gave a graphic eye-witness accounts of the beating of the driver and his narrow escape.

Under the compromise, charges against three Phuket taxi drivers were dropped.

Cape Sienna general manager Frank Dreist said today that the resort had never been blockaded.

Today's airport meeting is being held to inform taxi drivers of plans to replace the present chaotic pickup system with an orderly ticketed plan that would leave most taxis, vans and limos queuing outside the airport until called in for a job.

Phuket's Deputy Commander of Police told today's meeting that Chalong police are going to arrest the taxi drivers involved in the two-hour Serenity blockade.

The meeting is continuing.