With Australia's Great Barrier Reef undergoing its worst coral-bleaching event on record, one of Thailand's top marine experts warns there are no quick fixes.
In Thailand, it has been six years since authorities decided to close a world-renowned tourist destination to allow for ecological restoration. At its peak, Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh Island, the iconic setting for the 2000 film The Beach, received approximately 3,000 to 4,000 visitors daily and was littered with rubbish from tour boats. After significant recovery, parts of Noparat Tara-Phi Phi national parks reopened to the public in January 2022.
This is a problem shared by Thailand, where tourism accounted for nearly 20 per cent of the GDP prior to the pandemic in 2019, according to Export and Finance Australia. "If Surin, Similan National Park, and other attractions in Thailand are gone, the nation will lose billions of dollars in income. Other problems will be ecosystem imbalance and coastal erosion," Thumrongnawasawat said.
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