The Danish Foreign Ministry has lifted the advisory against travel to the Thai island of Phuket, and travel companies responded by announcing plans to resume trips to the island in February, Ritzau news bureau reported on Wednesday.

Travel company Star Tour will send its first flight to Phuket on Feb. 1 since the tsunami catastrophe. Competitor MyTravel follows a week later with its first flight on February 8.

Most of the hotels in the area are operating normally. Star Tour is resuming travel to Kata Beach, Karon Beach and Krabi while MyTravel offers those as well as Patong Beach and Surin Beach.

Cleanup work on Phuket has been in full force since New Year, and 40 of the 43 hotels which MyTravel uses are open and ready for guests. Only Khao Lak and Phi Phi island will not be ready for guests during the rest of the season.

"We're glad we can resume travel to Phuket, and we expect to resume at 45 percent of the originally planned capacity. Everyone agrees that the best way to help the people there in the long run is to resume travel to the island so they can get their economy going again," said Jan Vendelbo, MyTravel's marketing director.

Star Tour expects to resume two-thirds of its operations in the area.

Also on Wednesday, three more names were taken off the tsunami list of missing Danes after they reported to police that they were okay.

There are still 52 names on the tsunami list of missing Danes, and the number of identified death is still seven.