News Forum - Ethnic group in Southern province complains losing residence due to tourism

[Thaiger]

Representatives of the Mani ethnic group in the Southern province of Satun handed a letter to the authorities complaining that they would lose their residence and couldn’t access a better quality of life due to the tourism industry. The representatives told the authorities they didn’t even have a right to replace a thatched roof with a ceramic one as some officers said it wasn’t traditional and ruined a selling point. The discussion to find a solution for the Mani group was hosted at a Perfect Room Report in Satun province. The meeting involved Mani representatives, an artist working closely with […]

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[Guest1]

How is that difficult?

Hire them as traditional workers for the dayjob in that tourist location. Like it is in many countries.

Pay them a salary and build a living quarter some 100meters way, where they can spend the dakary in rent.

Solved

 

[CamPat]

it's not as simple as it seems. Tourism  in general is a  pest and...... a moneymaker. If Tourism targets a particular area you can say goodbye to the locals, their culture and even their land. If i compare the Kao San Road 40 years ago with before the Pandemic i see a total destruction of local customs, life and culture making place for ignorant Tourists. There seems to be no remedy for this, just ask the jamunami in the Amazone Forest how they feel, There it's not yet Tourism but simply destroying their habitat for profit. Of course they will never see the profit and even risk to get killed if they oppose,

[Guest1]

Yes, but if they hire the people, to "play" the people, they are now, the tourism gets what it want, the Mani can have a living, and there is no need for a real roof on that house, since it is only in use in working hours!

As an open air museum

[joseph]

The Karen's were successful at tourism. They weren't even Thai's but refugees in Thailand.   

[CamPat]

8 hours ago, Guest1 said:

Yes, but if they hire the people, to "play" the people, they are now, the tourism gets what it want, the Mani can have a living, and there is no need for a real roof on that house, since it is only in use in working hours!

As an open air museum

Sure, you can watch this "Muppet Show for Tourists" since decades in Hawaii at the Polynesian Cultural Center. It didn't help the idigineous people to prevent their lifestyle and culture being destroyed by friggin Tourists. How about calling it Disney Land instead !