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Tourists are banned from bringing all kinds of alcolic drinks into national parks all over the country from Monday to Jan 5, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti announced on Monday.
The ban has been announced by the National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Department on Monday.
Sunant Arunnopparat, the department chief, said the ban on alcoholic drinks is intended to prevent tourists from making loud noises to annoy other campers and wild animals. It is also part of safety measures for park visitors.
Violators of the ban are liable to up to one month in jail and a fine of not more than 1,000 baht or both.
New regulation not only bars sale of alcoholic drinks but restrains visitors from taking drinks in
Most of Thailand's 110 national parks, including Khao Yai, have been declared alcohol-free zones.
Not only will there be a ban on booze sales, but visitors will also be barred from bringing alcoholic drinks into the parks, Natural Resource and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti told a news conference yesterday.
However, some senior officials said this might not apply at national parks where the private sector rents places for business, such as at Koh Samet.
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Koh Samet businesses say booze ban will hit them badly
Restaurant owners on Koh Samet, off the coast of Rayong province, are fighting against a blanket ban on the sale of liquor in national parks, saying that the island attracts lots of private investors and they could not possibly continue their businesses by serving just water to customers.
Thanakij Supphasee, owner of the Saeng Thian Beach Resort, said restaurateurs and resort owners would launch a campaign against the ban if it were officially imposed on this tourist haven.
He said Samet was different from other national parks because private resorts and restaurants were allowed there. "All places have eateries or restaurants, and food always goes with liquor.
"The ban should not be imposed on one and all, but instead on a case-by-case basis. The ban is good for areas or national parks that are in pristine condition or where there are no businesses. But Samet is different, because people have invested heavily in this area," he said.
In Chiang Mai's Inthanon National Park, signs have been posted banning alcoholic drinks from being brought in. Park chief Kriangsak Thanomphan, however, said checkpoints would not be set up nor luggage searched because it would only drive away tourists.
The chief of Huay Nam Tang National Park in Chiang Mai's Mae Taeng district, Suwit Kaewpiyarat, said local shops and eateries did not sell alcohol and tourists usually brought their own.
The authorities at Phoo Hin Rong Kla National Park in Phetchabun province praised the ban, saying that visitors should enjoy nature instead of drinking alcohol.
However, shops based in Loei's Phoo Kradueng National Park are feeling the pinch. The park already had a policy in place, in which visitors and shops had to pay a deposit for all the alcohol brought in, and only got it back when they returned or took back the bottles or cans brought in.
One of the shop owners said the new law only affected shops that had no choice but to empty their stocks of alcoholic drinks.
The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry revived a 1961 directive prohibiting the sale of alcohol in national parks, which subjects violators to a month in jail and/or a Bt1,000 fine in the wake of a student's murder at a recent musical extravaganza in Nakhon Ratchasima's Khao Yai National Park.
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