What Thailand needs is to stop this Tourism BS and focus on their export economy, educate Issan girls to participate in that economy for their betterment instead of marrying old farang to escape from poverty and support their drug addict Thai bf. Thailand has become a constant supplier for young girls  for the old farang who failed in their life in their home country and migrate to Thailand for young girls to marry.

Edited June 11, 20197 yr by onera1961

Thailand will encounter the same as other areas did. As we all know all are fishing in the same pound.

People have the illusion that one can catch the wav and forget a wave one can only ride.

 

Watching the footage of Phuket, Koh Ratcha and the surrounding areas nearly made me weep.   

I did my PADI SCUBA courses there in 2001 and was privileged to see the then beautiful coral and marine life.

 

I've quoted Joni Mitchell  on TV before with  "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot".

Phuket has long since ceased to be a tropical paradise.

Sad beyond words....

Edited June 11, 20197 yr by VBF

Call some place Paradise, kiss it goodbye. The Thais even rape their own country.

 

It's not only Thailand. Man and his greed are destroying the whole world. How come stupid man has not noticed the small fact that we only have one planet and nowhere else to go?

 

I read a recent article which said there are toxic levels of drugs now found in most rivers. Drink the water, what do you get with it? You can thank the likes of Bayer and Monsanto corporations.

 

I see the future, a Chinese Thai man with a fist full of money, but he is dying, as the air and water are poison.

17 hours ago, Denim said:

What it boils down to is , do you want the money or not ?

 

Can't have it both ways.

 

That's the way the Thais think of it. However you can have tourism and reap the benefits without destroying everything you touch. Hawaii has beautiful beaches, has a huge number of annual visitors, is able to make a big margin on each visitor. Hawaii can command higher prices because the value proposition is so much greater. This is because they don't treat their islands like a toilet, toxic waste dump and tourist attraction all rolled into one. If you want to maximize your take you can have one but not the other. 

 

There are many destinations like that around the world where there is tourism, profits and lack the complete and total environmental degradation that Thailand is now known for.