EU and Koh Samui push hotels for the green standard

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EU and Koh Samui push hotels for the green standard

KOH SAMUI: -- The European Union and the Koh Samui Municipality have joined hands to encourage hotel entrepreneurs in Koh Samui to develop towards a green standard of hotel management.

According to the Mayor of Koh Samui Ramnet Jaikwang, yesterday the European Union and the Koh Samui Municipality have held a preparation seminar for hotel entrepreneurs in Koh Samui to promote environmental friendly services known as the green standard.

In this seminar, there was a lecture on an environmentally friendly procurement policy and the government’s policy on choosing hotels that have passed the eco-friendly operations criteria of the Pollution Control Department as the location for government seminar.

The Mayor said that the Koh Samui Municipality was working to develop the area as a sustainable and ecologically friendly tourism destination and residential place.

He said that the municipality will be providing EU sponsored field observations, with field experts to provide practical suggestions for hotels to become more environmental friendly, complying with the Thai Green Hotel codes.

Delegates from the Koh Samui Municipality, the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the Pollution Control Department, the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion, as well as government and private agencies have visited and studied the green standards in the European countries which will be used to apply practical improvements to Thailand.

The visit and the cooperation of all related agencies will improve the sustainable development of Koh Samui island, said the mayor.

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-- Samui Times 2014-12-04

[Neilly]

The visit and the cooperation of all related agencies will improve the sustainable development of Koh Samui island, said the mayor.

About time you fixed the incinerator then Mr Mayor

[ArfurMaggot]

Sustained for whom?

If you don't tackle the other more important burning issues on these islands, such as the general corruption, the inept police, the taxi driving thieves, the drug dealing bar owners, gang violence with impunity and the ability to buy your way out of any degree of trouble with the law. Who will you be achieving this Green Standard for?

"If you build it,they will come" was just a line in a movie. As it is now, soon the only thing you will see on these islands will be the ghosts of tourists.

Oh yes. By the way. Generally, it is not the hotels or resorts that are the problem. Take a look at some of the smaller, local traders, Mr Mayor.

[spidermike007]

This is a very funny post. According to the Mayor of Koh Samui Ramnet Jaikwang, who knows little about sustainability, they are going to encourage hotels to be more responsible. What about the mayor? What about his people? What about Samui itself, which is one of the least progressive places on earth, when it comes to green energy, waste management (almost non-existent) the continued fouling of the sea with waste water, lack of recycling programs, and initiatives, zero in the way of traffic controls, limits of plastic use and consumption, and limits on the size of trucks and buses permitted onto the island. In countless ways, the island is staying in the dark ages, when it comes to anything related to the environment, organic farming, and anything that is even remotely considered progressive thinking. Samui is ground zero when it comes to all of this. It is the opposite of Chiang Mai. So, for someone like this to say something like this, he simply cannot be taken seriously. It has to be meant as comedy. Or irony.

[monkeycountry]

Samui's biggest tourist attraction is Chaweng Beach, yet waste water from the lake and river running through most of Chaweng is not treated, but runs untreated straight into Chaweng Bay.

A small ready to order shipping container sized waste treatment plant dumped into the river just before it reaches the sea would solve the problem most of the year, except the few days/weeks with heavy rain, and it would be cheap to buy and operate as well.

The days with heavy rain are fortunately usually in low season, and are usually accompanied with strong winds, currents and waves, which means there will be few tourists swimming and the untreated water will be easier dissolved and pushed out to sea anyway.