Phuket Governor has mind set on 100 per cent virgin beaches

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Phuket Governor has mind set on 100 per cent virgin beaches

The Phuket News

 

Governor Chockchai Dejamornthan said he will gradually remove the 10 pwer cent zones from Phuket's beaches. Photo: Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

PHUKET: -- The new governor of Phuket has stated that it is in his plans to remove all 10 per cent zones from Phuket’s beaches, thus leaving them all as virgin beaches.

 

The statement was made during Governor Chockchai Dejamornthan’s first “Governor Meets Press” meeting held on Thursday (Oct 13) together with Vice Governors Theera Anantaseriwidhya, Siwaporn Chuasawad and Snith Sriwihok.

 

During the meeting a reporter from The Phuket News asked Gov Chockchai, “Do you have any plans to increase or change the 10 per cent beach rules?”

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-governor-has-mind-set-on-100-per-cent-virgin-beaches-59511.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2016-10-17

[Pomthai]

Why not ban sun cream as well? Its as sensible and banning shade.

[Somtamnication]

Well, better empty them all then, go back 50 odd years, just like their customer service.

[LivinginKata]

While I quite enjoy the view without a clutter of loungers and umbrellas all along the beaches, the 10% compromise seems realistic given this is a tourist destination. 

 

I no idea what this new gov is thinking about, and I suspect neither does he ...

[KarenBravo]

Poor Phuket.

Yet another mentally challenged governor in a long line of previous governors that were mental midgets......

[Remus1830]

Another clueless beaurocrat phuket needs tourism not policy that pushes the tourist away.

[steelepulse]

How about we do away with the dangerous jet skis and parasail thugs, while the local gov't themselves run the beach chairs under strict guidelines and are held accountable............................

[Brer Fox]

How about some virgin beer bars to go with the virgin beaches? That might pull in the connoisseur foreign sex tourists. TAT might welcome such an enterprise. Just call it innovation. 

[bokningar]

100 % virgins on Phuket beaches . 

Empty beaches then, hard to find virgins enough to fill them  

[eisfeld]

Going to be a great success if they end up like Surin beach which is full of rubbish, still getting dirty waste water and they even broke the road along the beach while demolishing the buildings. Before there were illegal businesses running too close to the beach and now there's no proper businesses anywhere near the beach. Need to take a dump? Have fun looking for a toilet. Great success indeed.

 

Seems harder than expected to properly manage a beach tourist area even though there are plenty of examples around the world where it works just fine to copy from.

 

Clean, managed beaches with legal high quality businesses serving tourist needs like dining, some clean public toilets, changing rooms and showers, areas with trees for shadow, some grass... there you go, a recipe for happy and money spending tourists. Nah, let's mess everything completely up, that's more fun.

[Old Croc]

1 hour ago, eisfeld said:

Going to be a great success if they end up like Surin beach which is full of rubbish, still getting dirty waste water and they even broke the road along the beach while demolishing the buildings. Before there were illegal businesses running too close to the beach and now there's no proper businesses anywhere near the beach. Need to take a dump? Have fun looking for a toilet. Great success indeed.

 

Seems harder than expected to properly manage a beach tourist area even though there are plenty of examples around the world where it works just fine to copy from.

 

Clean, managed beaches with legal high quality businesses serving tourist needs like dining, some clean public toilets, changing rooms and showers, areas with trees for shadow, some grass... there you go, a recipe for happy and money spending tourists. Nah, let's mess everything completely up, that's more fun.

Don't panic, they are due to start construction on the new 800m park any minute now:

http://www.thephuketnews.com/work-on-phuket-b800mn-surin-beach-park-to-start-next-month-59175.php#lauzLOydYXwALvyi.97

 

The first phase will be a fence costing 8m.

[Nurseynutcase]

Oh dear - how to ruin the tourist trade, as if it was not bad enough already.  So sad

[AlQaholic]

The old way it was managed was just a variation of beach management. The men in Power gave concessions (illegally) for people to operate seating and umbrella services (of which the pioneers where already there illegally) which then expanded into the food and beverage catering, while the mafia stepped in to get their fair share with protection money and all other crap going on.

If the beaches was managed in the first place like our beaches in the west I am sure some sort of corruption would have crept in anyway as well as the mafia and it would all have gone to s*&t anyways.

 

It is not about management methods but the morality, sense of duty and integrity of those involved in the whole thing.

 

I regularly visit a beach run entirely by the navy. It is excellently managed, chairs, tables and mats for a cheap price are for rent and half of the cost refunded upon return of said items, there are plenty of shade everywhere under the trees, pristine white sand, clear water to the bottom, daily cleaning of the beach. Plenty of moderately priced restaurants (moderate for Thais even). Plenty of free to use clean toilets and showers separate for women and men. The whole place fenced in and you pay a moderate entrance fee. This is done by Navy people with sense of duty, morality and integrity, I doubt this setup would work in the Thai civil society, it would all go south within a year.

 

[madmitch]

Early days. He'll soon find out who's really in control.

[Soupdragon]

12 minutes ago, madmitch said:

Early days. He'll soon find out who's really in control.

I see nothing but another "Yes" man.

 

Phuket Governors are appointed for their pliability, not their foresight.

[Srikcir]

A truly virgin beach is one without human presence.

Only allow lookouts and maybe balloon flyovers.

And say goodbye to tourism revenues.

[NamKangMan]

He's just putting "interested parties" on notice that if they want to work on the beach, the price is going up. 

[elgordo38]

21 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

While I quite enjoy the view without a clutter of loungers and umbrellas all along the beaches, the 10% compromise seems realistic given this is a tourist destination. 

 

I no idea what this new gov is thinking about, and I suspect neither does he ...

Riding to the rescue on a 3 legged horse. Once he settles into the job it will be business as normal. Its all horn blowing a chest beating. 

[Jonmarleesco]

100% virgin? In Thailand? Impossible.

[Paul944]

3 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

100% virgin? In Thailand? Impossible.

You would be amazed how many upper class girls are single and still virgin in Thailand, specially from christian and muslim families. However, you will never find them on a beach.

[Jimi007]

I've lived at the beach all my life, never needed an umbrella or a lounger. I have an ice cooler, a backpack, a beach mat, a towel, sun block, a hat and my swim fins. Never cared much for tourists... Good luck to the new Governor. We'll see how long he keeps his stance.