webfact Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Visitors to Maya Bay will have to book tour in advance By Pratch Rujivcanarom The Nation Photo by: Thon Thamrongnawasawat Visitors will have to make advance bookings for limited day tours to the internationally renowned beach at Maya Bay on Phi Phi Islands of Krabi once the site reopens to the public, according to experts. After accompanying National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department (DNP) director-general Thanya Netithammakun on an official inspection of the environmental rehabilitation efforts at Maya Bay in Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park, prominent marine biologist Thon Thamrongnawasawat revealed in his Facebook that the mission to restore the ecosystems of Maya Bay had gone as planned and the two-year environmental restoration of Maya Bay had entered the third and final phase. “We have now nearly reached the goal to revive Maya Bay’s pristine nature. The DNP is finalising the tourism management plan at this famous nature attraction spot, calculating the appropriate number of visitors in order to prevent over-tourism, and also setting out measures to ensure the fragile ecosystems of the bay will be protected from the impacts of tourism,” Thon said. He said that after the DNP closed Maya Bay to visitors for 10 months, the first phase of environmental restoration mission had allowed nature to heal the devastated ecosystems damaged by prolonged intensive tourism activities. The master plan to reform tourism management at Maya Bay was drawn up in the second phase; in the third and final phase, the DNP will have to implement the plans. “The first and foremost issue is to determine and implement the visitor quota for Maya Bay,” he said. “From now on, tourists will have to book their seats in advance for limited standardised day tours to Maya Bay. File photo: Maya bay // EPA-EFE PHOTO Individual visitors will not be allowed to visit the bay on their own; each tour to the bay will have no more than 300 people per trip and each trip will be of 60 minutes duration around Maya Bay.” Although he said the daily visitor quota for Maya Bay was yet to be finalised, both Thon and DNP executives insisted that mass tourism would not be allowed again at Maya Bay. “We would like to restore the pristine nature of Maya Bay from the scars of mass tourism and preserve it as a prominent marine animal sanctuary rather than continue to exploit its beautiful nature with unsustainable tourism,” he said. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30369243 -- © Copyright The Nation 2019-05-13 Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking Thailand news and visa info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mok199 Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Aparrently ''Closed indefinitely due to human impact'' means ''show me the money''... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 2 hours ago, webfact said: Visitors to Maya Bay will have to book tour in advance Presumably they have to book two years+ in advance??? Akin to booking a seat on a high speed train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chang_paarp Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 This will make the concession the take the tourists there a very valuable commodity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom1959 Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Close the Island for2 or3 years more.Everything else makes no sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 A couple of years to get the Coral starting to grow,and a couple of weeks to return to devastation,once its opened again,nature will never win over money in Thailand. regards worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bdn6768 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 So these people have stopped traveling in boats for sight seeing??? They have just gone off and are seeing other places and the same thing is happening there. What is the condtion of James Bond Island??? They mentioned sharks have come back...the first day of the tour boats come back and they are gone. Shouldnt be used as a bar of success as they will flee as soon as their enviroment is altered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigand Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Booking in advance for limited access ... couldn't be more open to abuse if you tried. Someone will be able to make a brisk business in over-priced slots at short notice for disorganized tourists that just show up as the "booking system" may well have a waiting list of months with opaque block bookings chewing up availability. Someone will make a mint out of this corruption opportunity and I bet it'll be hard to get a ticket unless you go through the unofficial channels for more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digbeth Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 They've made it clear that no boats will ever enter the bay again, moored outside and enter via the backside of the island only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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