IT was another Tuesday night at the Londoner, a popular Bangkok pub where expatriates, tourists and Thai regulars were, as usual, bellying up to the bar, downing pints and chatting amid a dense haze of smoke. Outside, the rain was falling; inside the topic of conversation was the military coup that had overthrown Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra the week before.

“I'm not cutting my trip short,” said Barry Porter, from Melbourne , Australia , who had just suggested to friends that they join him in Bangkok.

At tourist spots throughout the city, travelers were similarly nonchalant. Bangkok's legendary Khaosan Road was crowded with backpackers. “Knowing Thai people, I wasn't expecting an uprising,” said Jozef Sint Jago, from Amsterdam . “I'm not concerned at all.”

In MBK Center, a huge shopping mall in Siam Square, John O'Hara, of County Mayo, Ireland , said he had just arrived in Bangkok with friends. He said the coup on Sept. 19 hadn't forced them to change their travel plans. “It didn't affect us at all. On the news, it looked bad, but it's not.”

Coup? What coup? That seems to be the attitude among travelers and travel professionals as the recent political turmoil in Thailand appears to have had little or no effect on tourism there. After all, the embattled prime minister, who had led a grudgingly accepted social order campaign in 2001 that mandated a 1 a.m. closing time for most of Bangkok's bars and nightclubs, was not very popular among the city's residents.

In fact, when tanks rolled into Bangkok, Thais presented soldiers with flowers and candy, and many troops gladly posed for photographs with foreigners. In Phuket, unperturbed beachgoers sipped “coup cocktails” at beachside bars. And if the opening of a new international airport outside Bangkok on Sept. 28 is any indication, the provisional rulers seem intent on making sure that the tourism industry — which Thai officials say draws more than 11 million tourists a year — continues apace. The Associated Press has reported that the $3.8 billion, six-million-square-foot airport — meant to be the centerpiece of Mr. Thaksin's political legacy — can handle 76 flights an hour and 45 million passengers a year.

Of course, there are some very real concerns. Critics worry about the temporary suspension of certain civil liberties around the country, in particular, curbs placed on public gatherings, political activity and the local news media. The United States State Department and ministries in other countries in Australia and Britain have encouraged travelers to exercise extra caution.

Tour operators and hotels, however, report few cancellations. Luxury-tour operators like Abercrombie & Kent and Cox & Kings, for instance, said that none of their clients had chosen to change their plans.

“There's no story,” said Pamela Lassers, director of media relations for Abercrombie & Kent, which offers personalized itineraries to and around Thailand. “The clients who are visiting have basically been completely unaffected.”

Reports from her company's office in Bangkok, she said, described images of solidarity rather than turmoil, with thousands of Thais showing up at the royal palace each day wearing yellow shirts and yellow ribbons to signify their support for the king. The king's approval of Mr. Thaksin's ouster was widely reported in the news media.

“Our clients are saying that seeing regular people coming to the palace and getting their pictures taken with the soldiers is just the most reassuring thing that they could have seen,” Ms. Lassers said.

Cox & Kings received similar reports from its offices in Thailand. “I think last week there was some anxiety,” said Nathaniel Waring, president of Cox & Kings, in an interview a week after the coup. But, after those first days, he said, it became clear that hotels would not change their policies, transfers would not be affected, and the airport would remain open.

“People are very understanding that things like this can happen,” Mr. Waring said. “I think, over all, Thailand does have an image of peace and stability, whether that's Buddhism, the fact that the hotels are so great, the service is renowned, the Thai people are so friendly.”

But that doesn't mean that travelers were not without practical concerns during the aftermath of the coup. Jim Mathewson, for instance, was scheduled to leave Bangkok for California two days after the coup. Like many people familiar with the situation, what he worried about most was not the threat of violence, but his flight home.

“My thought was that they might close the airport, which they didn't,” said Mr. Mathewson, executive director and co-founder of the Tanager Foundation, a United States -based nonprofit group working in Thailand to improve drinking water there. “Or, even if they didn't close the airport, they might close the routes to get back into Bangkok.”

But even those fears proved unfounded. Everything at the airport was business as usual. “In the entrance to the airport there were maybe a few more armed military guys with rifles, but they were relaxed,” Mr. Mathewson said. “They were almost just strolling around. There was no tension anywhere.”

Like air travel, cruise dockings are similarly unaffected. “There doesn't seem to be a resistance or certainly a lack of interest among potential passengers or passengers in the region due to the coup,” said Brian Major, director of public relations for Cruise Lines International Association, a group that represents 19 cruise lines, accounting for 97 percent cruise capacity in North America. By contrast, he said, cruise lines he spoke with that have ports of call in Thailand — including Crystal Cruises, Seabourn Cruise Line, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises — cited more concern for places like Indonesia because of safety issues.

INTERACTIVE travel sites on the Web, like tripadvisor.com , saw an early flurry of activity by anxious travelers on their Thailand-themed public forums, wondering if they should change or cancel their plans. But responses from the ground were reassuring, with consistent reports of on-schedule flights and peace in the streets, from Bangkok to Phuket.

There was also a good deal of criticism in the forums of the way the coup had been portrayed by the international news media. Many respondents encouraged worried travelers to pay little heed to what one blogger called an “extravagant exaggeration of the current situation by certain parts of the media.”

But some frequent visitors — particularly those like Mr. Mathewson, who lives near Reno, Nev. — who have fallen in love with the country's shrinking unspoiled areas, said they almost wished the recent developments were less encouraging to tourism.

“I would actually prefer a bad spin on it so fewer people would go there,” Mr. Mathewson said, laughing.