RELEASED: 2 Aug 2022 at 04:11
Chon Buri: The 3.5-kilometre-long Na Jomtien beach in Pattaya City is anticipated to totally resume to travelers in 2025 when the renowned beach is totally strengthened by sand fences in a seaside disintegration avoidance task started in 2020.
Building of the 50-metre large sand fences along the very first 800-metre area of beach extending to the south of Soi Na Jomtien 11 ended recently.
The 2nd stage of building and construction has actually now started and is anticipated to end in November 2025, stated Sompong Jirasirilert, deputy director-general of the Marine Department.
The northern area of the beach where more sand fences are being developed reaches Pattaya Water Park, north of Soi Na Jomtien 11.
Beginning in 2020, the disintegration avoidance task was executed as an immediate job after disintegration had actually ended up being severe enough to threaten the popular beach and tourist in the location, Mr Sompong stated.
Coastal disintegration at Na Jomtien beach had actually led to it diminishing by about 60 rai in size in between 1976 and 2015, which indicated the requirement to take severe action to tackle this issue, he stated.
” If the issue had actually been left unsettled, the whole beach would have disappeared,” stated Mr Sompong.
In that occasion, the location would lose important traveler earnings, not to discuss the natural beach tourist attraction itself.
The department employed Chulalongkorn University and Kasetsart University to collectively examine the disintegration and style an avoidance approach, he stated.
An expediency research study performed as part of the task discovered that every 1 baht in spending plan invested in moneying the task would yield 3.5 baht in financial worth, Mr Sompong stated.
Before the task was authorized, 3 rounds of hearings were held to evaluate popular opinion about the task.
The preliminary of hearings was performed in March 2015, the 2nd in September that year and the 3rd one in September 2016, with individuals at these hearings who authorized of the task varying from 84.2% to 96.8%, he included.
Aside from assisting secure the landscape, the sand fences are likewise believed to assist enhance the beach’s community, which will assist Pattaya’s tourist and associated markets in Chon Buri, Mr Sompong stated.
Pattaya ranked the 8th most popular traveler location worldwide in 2022, according to online travel reserving platform Agoda.
While still battling with the financial effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, Pattaya in 2019 drew in about 5 million domestic visitors and about 2 million Chinese travelers, along with tourists from Russia, India and South Korea, producing some 300 billion baht in earnings, stated Pattaya mayor Poramet Ngampichet just recently.
In Between January and April this year, the beach town invited 3.8 million visitors, mainly Thais, partially due to the federal government’s “We Travel Together” hotel aid plan, developing earnings of about 22 billion baht.
