webfact Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Tour boat operator fined for allowing tourists to step on coral reefs in Phi Phi islands By Thai PBS A tour operator was fined by the Noppharat Thara-Mu Koh Phi Phi National Park in Krabi province for allowing its tourists to step on coral reefs in the Viking bay, Phi Phi islands. Mr Worapot Lomsil, chief of the national park, said he decided to invoke Section 25 of the National Park Act B.E. 2504 to impose a fine on owner of the Phi Phi Seaborne tour boat for allowing about 20 tourists that he took them to the Viking Bay for snorkeling on March 17. The tourists were seen stepping on the shallow-water coral reefs with some of them sitting on the reefs by a diver who videotaped the incident and who also approached the group not to step on the coral reefs. Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/tour-boat-operator-fined-allowing-tourists-step-coral-reefs-phi-phi-islands/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-03-19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Real Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 "However, someone in the group challenged him to inform the authorities" Was that the dumbest of the dumb bunch? Guess he is the most popular person in the group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YetAnother Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 1 hour ago, webfact said: by a diver who videotaped the incident and who also approached the group not to step on the coral reefs highlights the general uncontrollableness of thais; boat owner likely laughed at the fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nausea Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Mass tourism and conservation are antithetical. Thailand has decided (in reality that is, symbolic gestures notwithstanding) to go the mass tourism route, especially with the Chinese; it's always going to be a losing battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salengrider Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 The amount of the fine was not even mentioned. I wonder if the fine was enough to deter the company from doing this again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thian Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 27 minutes ago, Salengrider said: The amount of the fine was not even mentioned. I wonder if the fine was enough to deter the company from doing this again. Last year a Russian lady on a boat was feeding bread to the fish, 100.000 baht fine. But this boatowner is thai so i guess 100 baht fine for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AhFarangJa Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 24 minutes ago, Thian said: Last year a Russian lady on a boat was feeding bread to the fish, 100.000 baht fine. But this boatowner is thai so i guess 100 baht fine for him. To be paid at the rate of 1 Baht a week........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 There will always be some Thai out there that will agree to anything for a quick buck - and to hell with the environment ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farcanell Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 5 hours ago, Thian said: Last year a Russian lady on a boat was feeding bread to the fish, 100.000 baht fine. But this boatowner is thai so i guess 100 baht fine for him. It’s certainly about time that the boat owners / tour operators were targeted, vs the tourists.... make the fine large enough to incentivize, and they might be on a winner. as to the russky fish feeder... she was bailed at the maximum allowable fine for the offense, but appeared in court to answer the charge, and was given a small fine ( by comparison to the 100k bail) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieqw Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 and the fine was ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Dude Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 This is all piecemeal rubbish...just waiting for when everything is destroyed by the Chinese and other tourists and there is nothing left, with the locals wondering why no-one comes anymore....haha. I'll give it 5-10 years max and then the doggy-doo will hit the fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Freckle Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Is it true that Maya Bay on Koh Phi Phi will be closed off for 3 or 4 months every year in order to rehabilitate the coral reefs there ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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