Thailand and the fallout from mass tourism | DW Documentary
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Channel: DW Documentary
Views: 1,567,481
Rating: 4.6952024 out of 5
Keywords: Documentary, Thailand, tourism, mass tourism, coral reefs, overfishing, pollution, plastic waste, submarine environment, DW, Deutsche welle, garbage, the beach, damaged, the Sea, holidaymakers, holiday, danger, dangerous, fallout, thailand travel, mass tourism documentary, mass tourism in thailand, plastic waste documentary, environment, plastic, waste, overfishing documentary, overfishing video, pollution in the ocean, pollution documentary
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Length: 42min 26sec (2546 seconds)
Published: Wed Jun 05 2019
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After visiting Cyprus many times over the last 10 years as a tourist and now living here for the last year, I can definitely tell that a lot of Cyprus has sold out to the tourist. Very sad reality, tourism is an ugly business when you start losing the authenticity that originally brought the tourists in the first place.
It's everywhere, it's an epidemic! My neighboring city Kyoto, Japan is undergoing the same event from mass tourism. People visit the city to experience tranquility and tradition, but all they get is screaming tourists, traffic jam, long queue for public transportation. There's literally no place in the city that's not crowded, and rents are rising rapidly. Economic benefit from tourism is a double edged blade for the local residents, it's a difficult problem to balance.
Best comment from Youtube: "34:31...TOURISTS? Dumping wood planks and broken tv's???? I don't think so."
Lol
Living in Prague, the Czech Republic, I can confirm the entire city center is a tourist trap with almost every store overcharging 50-100%. You only go to the city center if you work there.
Plus then you have the tourists that look at everything through their phone and never look where they're actually going. Drives me nuts..Seen so many accidents because of this stupidity.
I live right by Zion National Park in Utah and it is about 1% the size of Thailand and has 24 million/ year. Park is super Clean, very little destruction, and itβs limited by how many people can actually cram into the tiny canyon. US Park Management does a great job of mass tourism handling.
I like the idea of limited tourism. Caps on how many people can visit an area, strict rules for where people can go, what they touch, etc. There are such very real risks... but tourism is also very good for the local economy. In somewhere like Nepal for instance, tourism is starting to bring in lots of much-needed money into the local economy. However, same thing, they now have campaigns like βclean up Everestβ because of all the litter which is incredibly unfortunate :( Iβd like to think a balance can be reached π€
Costa Rica does tourism very well with the focus on eco tourism. I found Thailand a beautiful place but my God people have no respect for the environment. Everyone wants to go to the island where they filmed The Beach and it's over crowded and people are just taking shitty pics for Instagram
If mass tourism does more harm than good is the alternative that everyone stays in their corner of the globe? Or is there somewhere in the middle? I hate the idea of tourism somewhat ruining the culture of a place and what it originally was but also hate the idea of not exploring the world you were born on.
After living in Thailand for 8 years and speaking the language, I can clearly say it is the Thai people who are the litterers. Of course, they will never take responsibility for it when there is a scapegoat around.
You can find non-Thai people cleaning up the beaches!