Legal Development to Promote Green Tourism

Abstract

The study of Legal Development to Promote Green Tourism aims to analyze policy, law, rule and regulation concerning tourism business in order to give suggestions to develop or eliminate obstacles for business development in the context of green tourism. Mix study Method was used in this study including questionnaire, in-dept interview and focus Group discussion.

      The result of the study shows that even though there is so many Laws concerning Tourism in Thailand, but   still no law directly concerning green tourism and also many policy, law, rule and   regulation obstruct development of green tourism.

Suggestions from the study are (1) All Law concerning Tourism should be develop to promote Green Tourism such as Hotel Law, Food and Restaurant Law, Tourism law, Transportation Law. (2) The policies concerning Green Health Attraction and Green Health Hotel should be set and promote for all tourism places and tourism hotel. Besides, all tourism services must be set in the same standard of ASEAN Standard such as   ASEAN Spa Service Standard, ASEAN Green Restaurant and Green Homestay, ASEAN Green Hotel Standard. (3) Investment Promotion law should give incentives to all tourism places to to develop their place to green tourism including changing fuel car to electric car and give promotions for tourism business to use electric car to serve their customers. (4) Local government should has plan to promote green tourism in their area such as giving incentives for using public electric bus and promote transformation from fuel car to electric car including Low Carbon City Development Plan with support of central government. (5) New law should be enacted, as in foreign countries, to give responsibility to pollution makers for all damages compensation.