No caving to Similan tour operator pressure

By The Thaiger

 

 

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation is refusing to bow to pressure from tour operators in Phang-nga for it to ease current restrictions on the number of visitors to the Similan Islands.

 

Songtham Suksawang, director of the National Parks Division of the department, says the decision to limit the number of daily visitors to the island at 3,325 plus another 525 visitors for scuba diving was intended to preserve the environment and ecology of the island.

 

Overnight stays on Similan Islands are also currently banned under the new guidelines.

 

Full Story: https://thethaiger.com/uncategorized/no-caving-to-similan-tour-operator-pressure

 

-- © Copyright The Thaiger 2018-10-17

 No need to worry there are still a few decent pristine islands you can destroy. Like rok nok. 

Cruise ships go here now. It went from near zero tourism to complete cluster <deleted>.... in 1 week

Yup Thailand becoming LOT not LOS, or maybe  Land of Trashy Smiles.

5555 Geezer

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

to limit the number of daily visitors to the island at 3,325

Still more than 2000 people per day too high.

if they want to preserve what little is left of the marine life there than drastic changes are needed.