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We believe that sustainable tourism in Phuket should...

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This photo was taken at... during the local field visit to...

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1. Individual-based and voluntary entry.

2. Take one photo and upload it here anonymously.

3. Write a short description of the photo in English (not more than 30 words) or Chinese (not more than 20 words).

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Thai Cool La

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Five Guys

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Paradise Explorer

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Tourist posted this picture on Tripadvisor, showing a close connection between children and elephants. Based on many tourists' comments, we found that Phuket Elephant Care is a good place for family-oriented tourism and can cultivate children's awareness of animal protection.

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Phuket Elephant Care (奈通) - 旅游景点点评 - Tripadvisor

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Six God

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Chinese-Thai Ambassadors

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Thais believe that walking under one will bring luck🤞🏻🍀

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小时候不知道老一辈人为什么热衷于拜老爷，而且

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小时候不知道老一辈人为什么热衷于拜老爷，而且有那么多个节日都需要拜。除了初一十五还有各种老爷生。慢慢知道原来拜老爷是每个潮汕以及闽南地区在海外的侨胞对家乡的怀念和最纯粹的信仰。

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special experience, very natural, ecological

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Have you chased the sunset in paradise?😍

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Rose's ees😻

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Shab

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Nice place, very delicious

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I think it is a kind of alternative tourism destination, especially for artsy people.

And the workshop was fantastic.

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What flowers will be planted with the ticket? Is it the sunflower that Van Gogh loves?🤔🌻

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The Superstar of Luguna Friday  Night Market.🎤

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The Superstar of Luguna Friday  Night Market.🎤

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Super crowded but still wanna come back lol…

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We‘re all ees of adorable cat Rose🐱🐱🐱!!!

Including Liu Shiyuan👦

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Interesting interaction activities! We are happy that we can experience it rather than just watching 🥳🥰

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Brand Cooperation Between Local Companies

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Brand Cooperation Between Local Companies

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Delisious and Beautiful🤩😋

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On the ground floor, there are a lot of seafood stalls, most of the bosses speak Chinese fluently; on the first floor, there are several kitchens to help process seafood, guests can choose from a wide range of flavours.

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I ate five ribs as midnight snack ! 🫃

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A clothing shop in Old Phuket Street sells clothes similar to those displayed in the peranakan phuket museum. We also see locals in traditional dress in one restaurant.

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Combining bartending with the Van Gogh art exhibition enriches the visitor's experience and opens up a new path for creative tourism.

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The cultural and creative products in elephant sanctuary expose serious problems of homogenization and uniformity.

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This is the cultural and creative product of Phuket Museum Silk scarf, although it is not made and designed locally, it can be matched with Phuket's traditional clothing, which reflects cultural integration.

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This picture was taken at Elephant Care Park, where souvenirs are sold ranging from Phuket-inspired cloth bags to Disney's Dumbo and even a panda. It reflects the lack of standardisation of souvenirs here.

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Interesting experience of learning to making cocktail.

Everyone who tasted it said it tasted so good!

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Here, we use natural food to feed elephants, have close contact with them, and experience the harmonious coexistence between humans and elephants.

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We participated in the process of recycling the plastic.

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The Peranakan Museum shows the lives of the original 'Going Down Under' Hokkien people in Phuket. Interactive installations in the video allow visitors to see objects used by Chinese Thais in the past, learn about traditional practices and have a fun and immersive experience while viewing the exhibition.

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We can draw our own world and freely settled anywhere.

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The organization of Blue Tree uses animation to promote the concept of sustainability. Utilizing cute marine animals and an ear-pleasing song, it tells children to reduce plastic waste and protect the environment.

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A passionate sharing about saying no to single-used plastics🤔🤩. Such actions are in line with SDGs from biosphere to economy which all of us are encouraged to take efforts. Taking Jane’s words, it is ourselves who are responsible to say no to straws🙅‍♀️!

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As the tour guide said, Van Gogh’s most expensive picture was about his psychologist Gachet, who accompanied him at the end of his life.

I just thought about one of Russian Greatest Musicians Mr. Rachmaninov. He wrote the Second Piano Concerto, which was also for his psychologist. Maybe the greatest artists and our ordinary people in the world always need mental health.

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Throughout two of the presentations, we can see that Banyan Tree Holding emphasizes sustainability and eco-friendly all the time. Certain kind of internal standard and system are eatablished in order to fulfill requirements of sustainability, and also brought certain cost-cut effect in the aspect of business.

However, the question is: are they doing all these in order to protect the environment? Or, in a critical way of thinking, simply for their business development? In the first speech about plastic, the lady kept emphasizing it is "our" resposibility to say no to plastic. All the issuses she provided that the hotel devoted themselves in are mostly educational events, and can attract tourists to come. These are about the perception aspect of environmental problem. But, when it comes to financial aspect, for example, when I pointed out it may be economic problems for the small stalls at night market to upgrade their bags to biodegradable plastics, she kept emphasizing that "we" need to say no to plastic: reducing demand on demand side instead of making improvement on the supply side. It really gives me a feeling just like Apple company: saying "we" need to focus on environmental protection, then stop providing charger in the box of new iphones.

But it is not totally their fault, since this is the nature of what they are doing: business for profit. For a hotel group, they have done as much as possible to meet SDG 2030. Many cases, plastic issues i mentioned for example, is a systematic problem that huge change in supply chain is needed, and this should also be the responsibility of the government: to lead the project of supply chain renovation by implementing eco-friendly technology, and publish certain policy of encouragement of limitation in environmental issues. Panyan tree group can provide or sell reusable straws to increase customers' awareness in daily business, this can on one hand maintain customers' experience, on the other hand can spread concept of reducing plastic more widely.

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Through this afternoon lecture, we have a clearer understanding of plastic recycling. We learned about the dangers of plastic to the world, the types of plastic, and how to recycle plastic. At the same time, we experienced the process of plastic recycling. We crush the plastic caps ourselves using a crusher and then hydraulically pressurize the plastic manually. The end result is a brand new, exquisite and beautiful decoration. Sometimes it is hard to balance between sustainability practice and customer needs for the tourism sectors. We should come up with better plans to make customer’ behavior green.

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Plastic Recycle Sharing Lecture in Bluetree

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Plastic Recycle Sharing Lecture in Bluetree

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今天下午我们观看了有关塑料回收利用可持续化的制作过程，有很大的感悟。

我们了解了塑料污染的危害性，以及学习如何通过各种创新合作方法将塑料进行回收利用。

普吉岛作为自然旅游的旅游地，拥有丰富的自然旅游资源，而塑料已经成为了我们日常生活中的一部分，从矿泉水瓶，衣服纤维等等。然而，随着塑料用品的大量使用，大量的塑料废弃物被游客丢弃在马路边或大海中，造成了大量的环境污染，也影响了普吉岛可持续化的发展。

为了解决塑料污染问题，蓝树集团强调了回收和再利用的重要性，通过有效的回收系统，我们可以将废弃的塑料转化为新的产品，从而减少对原始材料的需求。具体步骤有将塑料进行碎片化，加热制模，脱模，制成钥匙扣或小乌龟等物品。

总的来说，这场演讲让我深刻认识到塑料可持续化的重要性。虽然我们面临着许多挑战，但只要我们共同努力，通过创新和合作，我相信我们一定能够实现塑料的可持续利用，为地球和我们的未来创造一个更加美好的环境。

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This picture reflect the 12th SDGs : Responsible consumption and production. This company involves guests in environmental protection in their business, including conserving water, energy, reducing waste, buying locally, and not using plastic. When customers live in Laguna Park, the company bears the responsibility of helping them establish environmental protection by informing them of the company's role in environmental protection, in order to deepen the customer's belief in environmental protection.

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To be honest, we never imagine that Phuket has done such much things on reducing the use of plastic! As a famous destination for mass tourism, many hospitality-related industries start to realize the importance of environmental protection and we actually realized this point after field observation, like reducing the use of plastic products, the establishments of official library for problem-solving, supplier list for sharing the resources to avoid over-purchase or waste, etc.

The actions of Phuket Hotel Association meet many SDGs, like responsibility consumption and production, affordable and clean energy.

As Mrs.Macdougall mentioned, environmental protection should be our common target. All of us should start to say “no” to use plastic and every single effort works!!!

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This afternoon we learned about plastic recycling at the Blue Tree Group. The staff first popularized the harm of plastic waste, especially in Phuket Island, an area with developed tourism, improper disposal of waste will have a serious impact on the local ecology. At the same time, it also shows us how to effectively recycle the garbage and turn the garbage cycle into the new items, which gives us a new inspiration. The staff showed us in detail how to crush the plastic into pieces with the machine, put it into the mold, and make key chains or other commemorative items. We all actively participated in it, which effectively popularized the renewability of garbage. It is a very meaningful commemorative activity.

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We noticed that Bluetree Park encouraged cashless insides the lagoon, it’s not only convenient for both tourists and employees, but also much more hygienic.

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The Ocean Blue Tree is committed to creating a sustainable tourism area with a focus on plastic recycling and waste separation.

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The reusable bottle is a good practice of sustainable hospitality in Banyan Tree. As a sign for sustainable production of hotel products, it's considered to be consistent with SDG 12.

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In the afternoon, we went to Blue Tree in Phuket for a workshop where we ground plastic products into powder and made them into locks, so that plastic can be reused. Phuket is a small town developed based on island tourism, and the ecological environment is closely related to the sustainable development of local tourism, the local government and non-profit organizations have realized this problem earlier, and there is already a set of methods for garbage disposal, and hotel associations and hotel groups can play an important role in guiding the protection of the environment. Not only the use of plastic, but also the woven lampshades, woven chairs, and even the trash cans in the toilet are made of eco-friendly materials such as bamboo, vines, and grass. The early tourists in Phuket came from the European region, and the concept of environmental protection is relatively advanced and has a certain foundation, so the implementation in Phuket has the support of tourists, tourists follow the rules and participate in the activities, which is conducive to the ecological sustainability of Phuket and will also maintain the tourists' experience at a high level.

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In the afternoon, we went to Blue Tree in Phuket for a workshop where we ground plastic products into powder and made them into locks, so that plastic can be reused. Phuket is a small town developed based on island tourism, and the ecological environment is closely related to the sustainable development of local tourism, the local government and non-profit organizations have realized this problem earlier, and there is already a set of methods for garbage disposal, and hotel associations and hotel groups can play an important role in guiding the protection of the environment. Not only the use of plastic, but also the woven lampshades, woven chairs, and even the trash cans in the toilet are made of eco-friendly materials such as bamboo, vines, and grass. The early tourists in Phuket came from the European region, and the concept of environmental protection is relatively advanced and has a certain foundation, so the implementation in Phuket has the support of tourists, tourists follow the rules and participate in the activities, which is conducive to the ecological sustainability of Phuket and will also maintain the tourists' experience at a high level.

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Today, after taking part in a presentation on saving plastics and protecting the environment in the hotel industry, we made special mention of the importance of employees in saving resources, and the hotel industry, as an important part of the service industry, provides an important link for sustainable tourism.

The presentation highlighted the importance of training employees to conserve resources and teaching them practical ways to do so. For example, reuse by purchasing glasses, avoiding the use of bottled drinking water, and practicing water and energy conservation in daily work. These actions not only help reduce the burden on the environment, but also improve the hotel's brand image and customer satisfaction.

In addition, the presentation also mentioned the importance of green resources and training, and the evaluation of employees' environmental performance. By establishing environmental performance indicators and incentives, hotels can motivate employees to be more actively involved in conserving resources and protecting the environment. This positive work culture not only promotes environmental awareness among employees, but also contributes to the long-term development of the hotel industry. However, there are also some challenges, such as excessive mobility of hotel staff, which leads to training difficulties, and the hotel industry has actively overcome this difficulty

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Sunset 🌅 in Phuket

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The plastic recycling workshop provides customers to learn how it works, and convey the concept of sustainability and the importance of environmental protection to tourists.

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The hotel follows the principles of sustainable development and only provides straws, slippers, or plastic bottles upon request. It categorises plastics and educates guests on sustainable practices.

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It is a meditation trail along which patrons can walk mindfully to the center, where the stones are arranged in the shape of a lotus flower. In the center, one can sit to feel nature.

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I mean, the water park is so awesome that I want to jump.

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The reuse of plastic waste as a souvenir to practice the concept of sustainable development in terms of affordable and clean energy, protection of water and land life, responsible consumption and production.

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We accidentally found that the decorative items of Blue Tree Lagoon were made of foam and plastic flower pots, which were unique and innovative while reflecting the environmental protection concept of recycle and reproduce. This also reflects the responsible consumption and production mentioned in the SDGs.

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Each clasp is unique because it is made from different pieces of plastic. Although it can see what colors are available before we put it into the machine, it can't actually control the color it eventually forms, making us curious and expecting the final version.

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Interesting Christmas decoration!

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Really enjoying the sunlight and meadow. The air is fresh and it’s real nice to close the nature. I feel peaceful…

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Posters of community related program can be seen everywhere in the area,no matter on the shuttle buses or by the road.

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Flower blooms in harmony with artificial architecture 🥰

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Flower blooms in harmony with artificial architecture 🥰

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Self made alcohol-free cocktail🍸 under the inspiration of Van Gogh's painting.

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Excellent violin players🥹fantastic performance. Love them three.😙

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The building in the road shows the combination of Victoria and Chinese styles of architecture, which is a sign for cultural integration.

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The online library for waste sorting and reducing plastic use can help to increase people's awareness of environmental protection, contributing to the SDGs.

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“Have you ever thought about close the store?”

“No, not we. We are artists.”

The man opened his gallery 16 years ago. The pandemic gave stores in old town including him a dramatic hit but he never gave up to close the store. Because he is an artist. The man stranded on the left hand is his best friend, another artist. Crossing 5 km from other areas in Thailand to visit his friend and discuss arts with each other. It seems that they have lasted such lifestyles for a long time, and they really enjoy indeed. Although the COVID pandemic has made huge loss for this region, hosts such as the man insisted on what he loved.

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Sustainable measurements in Banyan Tree compared to Wynn Macau 

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Sustainable measurements in Banyan Tree compared to Wynn Macau 

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In the guest lecture, I heard Banyan Tree Team share a lot of measures and initiatives that are committed to sustainable development. I learned a lot, which also reminded me of my internship experience in the Sustainability department of Wynn Macau . Personally, I think the Banyan Tree Team's overall sustainable actions are lagging behind Wynn Macau. Regarding the adoption of glass bottled water instead of plastic bottled water, the Banyan Tree Team has just started to produce their own filtered water this year, but Wynn Macau has been producing filtered glass bottled water from within the hotel with their Nordaq system since a few years ago. In the last two years they have started to evolve to produce sparkling water. Regarding how to control food waste, Banyan Tree has its own Excel breakdown table to record and analyze food waste types by manpower, while Wynn directly has a very expensive machine called Winnow system, which can directly analyze the types and weight of wasted food by dumping food waste into it, and also automatically generate analysis reports, which types of food waste are more or less, they are still stuck in the manual e-commerce system. Wynn Macau analyzes food waste in an intelligent way.

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We interviewed a Chinese Restaurant management (the third person in this picture) about the challenges in tourism after Covid-19. His answer was quite different.

This restaurant opened at about June in 2021, when Thailand tried to reopen the tourism market to the foreigners. And the boss run this business very well that he opened another branch in Phuket town called 重庆小面. And the turnover increased year by year.

He also mentioned that he used to do some business with latex mattresses. But during the covid, he lost his business and became a restaurant manager. However, the income was equal as the former one.

The third thing is in the post-covid-19 era, the tourism business such as restaurants bring a lot of job opportunities. Except him, most of other staffs there are from mainland Thai.

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The first guest lecture is about plastic using and the actions of hotel staffs and guests.

I totally agree with her that we should say “no” to plastic. But I think maybe only some high rank corporates and consortiums can do things like that. For they can buy expensive machines to reduce pollution or donate money to the relevant field, like environmental fund or environmental think tank. Also there customers may also be social elites and have strong pro-environment behaviors.

But when focusing on whole Phuket Island tourism, it also has a huge market in mass tourism just like we have seen in Night Market. Many petty dealers use plastic bowls and straws because of convenience , economical and time-saving.

So I wonder if it's elitist condescension to say no to plastic. Whether ordinary or bottom tourism industry participants can truly achieve both environmental awareness and environmental behavior. Whether there should be more tolerance for ordinary tourism participants.

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Old town and night market：Collaboration & Interviews

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Old town and night market：Collaboration & Interviews

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The marketing strategy model of cooperation and linkage promotion in the same city: Van Gogh Art Museum and Tory's ice cream launched a co-branded product, which promotes awareness in both directions and is conducive to reaching a win-win situation.

In old town we met our group guide and had an unstructured interview with her, learning some important issues from the perspective of a tour guide.

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Climb high and look far, overlooking the beautiful island. Have subverted the world, see a night of glitz, life is just a fight feeling.

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It is the smoked chicken egg sandwich we ate in pipi island.

It tasted so good!

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Wonderful shot

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It feels so great swimming in the sea because of the beautiful view!

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The island is rich in natural resources and beautiful environment, but in my opinion, the system here is very sad.
First, through understanding, most of the income here is distributed to investors, and local workers can only get a small portion.
Second,  there are no rules and regulations to control the carrying capacity of tourists, which makes it very crowded. The infrastructure here is also imperfect and even dangerous, such as barge design.
Third,  tourism here can’t achieve sustainable development.If you want to engage in environmentally friendly tourism, it will be restricted, which will affect the work of local residents. If there is no restriction, it will also destroy the environment here.
In my opinion, there are still some problems to be improved in tourism here.

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As a tourist city with a high proportion of Chinese, Phuket can basically popularize Chinese on official instructions. On the unofficial platform, the service staff can also do basic Chinese communication, which is great!

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This is great！

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Although it has achieved most of the popularity of Chinese, there is still a lack of accuracy, more direct translation, and a lack of expression.

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While we‘re swimming in the sea, there’re always several crews watching us to guarantee our safety. 安全感满满！

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Visitors are not allowed to wear shoes on Phi Phi Island, which prevents the beach and sea from being polluted and helps to maintain the beautiful landscape.

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Blue sky and clear water, between the ravines, all the ships gathered in one place, with a sense of mission on the way home.

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One must ascend the highest peak to see how small the mountains are.

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Sea and sky with fantastic gradually changing color, and some tiny clouds on the horizon.

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在藥店發現為流浪貓貓狗狗準備的小費罐🫙🐱🐶，已投入10THB。充滿愛的布吉🥰！

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Hundreds of bats flied back to the forest and caves in the late afternoon which shows that even the human activities may effect the environment in Phi Phi island, some areas are still being well protected.

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Maya Bay

两岸青山相对出。

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这是我们的乐园，也是它们的。

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一面之缘。

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Everyone “CAN” have a Christmas tree! 🎄🎄Let’s reuse, recycle and recreate the waste to make it more sustainable for everyone!

Merry Christmas!

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落日沉溺于橘色的海，晚风吹拂着赤忱的爱。旅程的最后，此情此景，热泪盈眶。人类爱大自然诗里的光彩，但常常导致它的晦暗。

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Phi Phi Island, had fun here! Amazing snorkeling day