Government promises Phuket beach rule clarity by high season

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Government promises beach rule clarity by high season
Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: -- With Phuket’s high season starting next month, the details of exactly how the beach "management" system on the island will be maintained and implemented remain hazy.

“The beach management system is a very sensitive topic and must be handled with care. There are a great many stakeholders involved, including tourists,” Phuket Vice Governor Chokdee Amornwat told the Phuket Gazette today. “This is exactly why we must provide absolute clarity about how the system will operate. Additionally, those charged with maintaining the system must strictly enforce the rules.”

V/Gov Chokdee confirmed that everything detailing the 10 per cent beach zone policy would be plainly laid out by November 1.

Earlier this week, it was announced that a four-pronged approach that includes a "consultant" board, a management board, local government representatives and a public relations team would be implemented. However, it was not clarified what each group would be responsible for or how they would work together to create a unified system.

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-- Phuket Gazette 2015-10-23

[Thian]

And what about the taxi's? Will they get metres soon?

[Sharp]

The beach management system is a very sensitive topic and must be handled with care. There are a great many stakeholders involved, "" ""including tourists ""

I think without" Tourists " it would be irrelevant so they should be first on the list!!!

[steelepulse]

The beach management system is a very sensitive topic and must be handled with care. There are a great many stakeholders involved, "" ""including tourists ""

I think without" Tourists " it would be irrelevant so they should be first on the list!!!

Please Sharp, no logic...... it causes headaches to the local authorities.

[zaphod reborn]

As with everything in Thailand, they will announce their unthought out rules at the last minute. Then, when the complaints roll in, they will keep changing the rules. Always moving the goalposts so that businesses can't plan at all.

Edited October 23, 2015 by zaphod reborn

[ronaldo0]

"There are a great many stakeholders involved" ???

Basically all the people that have claimed land that is not theirs , running scams and running things enforced by threats !!

They want to keep all the pies and nobody else is allowed to taste them !!

[ChrisY1]

Should read..."There are a great many stakeholders involved, least of which is tourists,”

[Valentine]

The beach management system is a very sensitive topic and must be handled with care. There are a great many stakeholders involved, "" ""including tourists ""

I think without" Tourists " it would be irrelevant so they should be first on the list!!!

Please Sharp, no logic...... it causes headaches to the local authorities.

Tourists are only in this equation as to how much they can be gouged. This ridiculous 4 committee management system (the OP states he has no idea of what they will actually do) is just another money losing scheme at the public's expense but will certainly benefit those who are part of it as they will have to be paid some lucrative expenses only to ensure they can still extract vastly overinflated sums of money from the tourists. Nobody here cares about sustainable tourism as you only have to look at the monoliths being built to cater for the Chinese hordes such as King Power Complex, the one going up next to the 2 Heroines Monument, & all the ones on the road from the Honda dealer through to Kathu.

The deck chair people are not going to get the Chinese who really only walk on the beach to take some selfies & other photos to show they have been on the beach. I guess it is possible the jet ski guys could organize contracts for the tour companies to stop by & give the Chinese a quick ride (imagine what a nightmare that would be).

The day we get an honest, transparent government & law enforcement system on Phuket is the day Frosty the snowman will survive in hell.

[gandalf12]

It is time for the Tourists to boycott Thailand. There are many other countries who actually enforce the laws and that are more than happy to welcome the tourists. Once the tourists stop things will change but not until that happens

[Searat7]

It would seem that deck chairs could return to the beach in very specific regulated areas....it seems unfair that Pattaya has them but not allowed in Phuket.

[Ulic]

Personally I always liked the one row of beach chairs found on Kata Noi. When the chairs

get two-three-four deep with chairs six inches apart it is truly awful. One small area where

the old ladies give the beach massages and foot scrapes on a proper raised platform in

the shade. Easy to come up with the rules, but hard to divvy up the space numbers and

who gets the kickbacks. The old ladies kick back, the chair minders get a set number

of chairs, and who will get the prime spots where tourists enter from and you will be placed

further down the beach. Of course someone gets a kickback. Also the drink and food

hawkers. Who is licenced and what do they have to pay. The tourists just want some service,

not to be hassled, and a fare price. The only really difficult issue to sort out is how to end

the kick-backs and who gets these lucrative concessions.