The Designated Locations for Sustainable Tourist Administration (Dasta) is intending to reinforce regional tourist in Pattaya and enhance the city’s image amongst foreign travelers.
Foreign travelers walk along Beach Roadway in Pattaya. SAROTE MEKSOPHAWANNAKUL
Dasta deputy director-general Taweebhong Wichaidit stated a strategy remains in development to alter Pattaya’s image from a “sin city” to a household home entertainment location.
Authorities are promoting tourist locations such as Baan Chark Ngaew, Takien Tia, Nong Prue, Nong Pla Lai, Huay Yai, Khao Chee Jan and Khao Mai Kaew, all of which provide panoramas of nature.
Tourists in these locations can experience the regional way of life far from Pattaya’s night life and beaches in locations such as Baan Chark Ngaew, a 100-year-old Chinese neighborhood.
Mr Taweebhong stated the effort to alter Pattaya’s image might be challenging, however Dasta will work to promote alternative tourist for Thai and global tourists who wish to see genuine regional culture and nature.
” We intend to reinforce regional neighborhoods to produce more traveler profits within 2 years, and after that they will be more powerful in utilizing their properties to provide themselves as brand-new traveler destinations,” he stated.
Dasta is attempting to develop regional traveler destinations and activities and revitalise nature websites to draw in both regional and foreign tourists.
Baan Chark Ngaew represents Chinese vintage life, while Nong Prue reveals a spiritual and cultural measurement with a mix of Christian, Buddhist and Muslim impacts.
Khao Chee Jan is house to 11 royal jobs adhering with the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s sufficiency economy approach.
” I highly think that Chon Buri’s designated locations will provide more measurements to Thais and global tourists in the future,” Mr Taweebhong stated.
Dasta constantly concentrates on designated locations to assist disperse earnings to regional neighborhoods and decrease hardship.
It will let the Tourist Authority of Thailand provide the brand-new traveler destinations.
Dasta has actually worked more than 5 years to press community-based tourist and intends to disperse tourist profits to 2,500 districts across the country in 2017, up from 1,500 districts in 2015.
