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Tourism business operators and residents on Surat Thani's Koh Phangan are opposing Interior Minister ACM Kongsak Wantana's plan to ban the island's infamous full moon party.
They are demanding a public hearing if the minister is determined to push ahead with the ban.
Koh Phangan Tourism Promotion Association chairman Chanchote Piriyasathit said the minister's idea to promote eco-tourism on Koh Phangan and discontinue the full moon party was ill-advised. Business operators and residents have hosted the party for more than 20 years and it has become known worldwide, he said, adding a ban would negatively affect tourism.
I can assure them that it would affect tourism, but is anybody listening? One am closing negatively affects tourism but those up there do not want to hear that, let alone believe it.
From Bangkok Post