PHUKET: The trash found in a current basin on the seabed at Phuket's Karon beach came from ''other countries,'' Governor Jamleran Tipayapongtada told a meeting with honorary consuls today.
''It's from overseas, not local,'' he told the meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall in Phuket City.
The governor added that he believed every tour boat leaving Phuket needed to have black garbage bags on board so that passengers brought their garbage back to shore with them.
He still believes that it should be possible for tour boats to establish and record the identity of all passengers before leaving Phuket.
Tour agents say many visitors don't carry their passports or any form of ID with them on day-trips.
The governor said he noted the good ID service at Hat Yai airport in Songkhla and was hoping for something similar, without spelling out precisely what was being done there.
Penang airport and perhaps other airports now take forefinger prints as identification, not photographs.
Phuketwan notes that if entrepreneurs can have ceramic plates prepared with photographs of individuals on them in the time it takes for a tour vessel to return from a day trip, an efficient system to identify all those on board in a crisis should be possible.
''Our plan is for every tourist to be treated as a relative by people on Phuket,'' the governor said.
Sustainability remained an important issue, along with how to identify ''quality'' tourists.
The first Saturday of each month would be set aside for cleaning up local environments, the governor has told local municipalities.
Motorists could expect a couple more years of construction delays that could continue even longer if the tram was approved, he said.
He aimed to check with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see whether a compulsory system of travel insurance was possible for all tourists arriving in Thailand.
The ''10 percent commercial zones'' were going ahead at all Phuket beaches, with a blueprint and the appointment of a committee to oversee all beaches not far away.
''It's from overseas, not local,'' he told the meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall in Phuket City.
The governor added that he believed every tour boat leaving Phuket needed to have black garbage bags on board so that passengers brought their garbage back to shore with them.
He still believes that it should be possible for tour boats to establish and record the identity of all passengers before leaving Phuket.
Tour agents say many visitors don't carry their passports or any form of ID with them on day-trips.
The governor said he noted the good ID service at Hat Yai airport in Songkhla and was hoping for something similar, without spelling out precisely what was being done there.
Penang airport and perhaps other airports now take forefinger prints as identification, not photographs.
Phuketwan notes that if entrepreneurs can have ceramic plates prepared with photographs of individuals on them in the time it takes for a tour vessel to return from a day trip, an efficient system to identify all those on board in a crisis should be possible.
''Our plan is for every tourist to be treated as a relative by people on Phuket,'' the governor said.
Sustainability remained an important issue, along with how to identify ''quality'' tourists.
The first Saturday of each month would be set aside for cleaning up local environments, the governor has told local municipalities.
Motorists could expect a couple more years of construction delays that could continue even longer if the tram was approved, he said.
He aimed to check with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see whether a compulsory system of travel insurance was possible for all tourists arriving in Thailand.
The ''10 percent commercial zones'' were going ahead at all Phuket beaches, with a blueprint and the appointment of a committee to oversee all beaches not far away.
It's Burmese rubbish.
Posted by Arun Muruga on November 25, 2015 22:25