Has Shitsville got competition ?


https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2 ... ed-sewage/

Duncan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 07, 2018 8:25 pm Has Shitsville got competition ?


https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2 ... ed-sewage/

Big difference. Boracay used to be truly beautiful. It is beyond stupidity to have let people shit all over paradise.

Im fond of Shitsville despite everything, but even in its better days I wouldn't have called it "beautiful" - fun, friendly, or pleasant enough. But it was never a rival with the white sand coconut palm beaches of Boracay before the building invasion.
Boracay, as I knew it, is finished anyway, but I spent some of the best times of my life there and it makes me sad to see how it has been ruined through greed.
Sihanoukville has always been a bit of a mess. However, if you can fk up the most beautiful places on earth, then you can also make the less beautiful places just as ugly.

Shitsville never had a touch on any African beach, I suspect the whole world heritage site/ most beautiful beach rating thing was to try and encourage the locals to get with it...miserable fail. They don't care.

The island is small. To give you some idea, when I was on Boracay (many many moons ago) the total population was in the thousands maybe. There was no power, no roads, only local products available, and some beach shacks. Only transport was by boat, or you could walk or swim. There was little waste, because there was fk all there. It was paradise.

Now, there are at least 30,000 workers (and their families) on the island, as well as 2M tourists staying in luxury accommodation throughout the year. Of course there's a problem. The numbers are crazy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ed-duterte

Closure of the Philippines’ “cesspool” island a chance to correct how tourism functions, says Greenpeace campaigner
By: Thomas Brent - Posted on: April 13, 2018
One of the Philippines’ busiest tourist hotspots Boracay Island was labelled a “cesspool” by the country’s president Rodrigo Duterte. One month later he announced that the island will close for six months, beginning on 26 April. Vince Cinches, the oceans and political campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia gives his opinion on the matter

What are your thoughts on the Boracay Island closure?
Boracay mirrors the current state of the marine ecosystem and environment in the Philippines – it is degrading. [The] majority of the country’s fishing grounds are overfished, and marine ecosystems are facing crises due to pollution and other man-made disasters. I think it is high time that we re-frame and correct how tourism functions to address poverty and protect the environment, and we have that opportunity today...
http://sea-globe.com/closure-of-the-phi ... -cesspool/

hope HE sees this, chinks can hv their casinos on land, we want our seas back

that genius wrote: ↑Sun Apr 08, 2018 2:24 pm Shitsville never had a touch on any African beach, I suspect the whole world heritage site/ most beautiful beach rating thing was to try and encourage the locals to get with it...miserable fail. They don't care.

Sihanoukville has some beautiful beaches if you know where to beach

Jamie_Lambo wrote:

that genius wrote: ↑Sun Apr 08, 2018 2:24 pm Shitsville never had a touch on any African beach, I suspect the whole world heritage site/ most beautiful beach rating thing was to try and encourage the locals to get with it...miserable fail. They don't care.

Sihanoukville has some beautiful beaches if you know where to beach

Even if the beaches are "nice" the water is polluted af. If you honestly believe that Sihanoukville has anything close to a world class beach you need to visit a few in the Caribbean.

Other beaches in SEA are closing to preserve their eco-systems from mass tourism.

Tourism surge lashes Southeast Asia's beaches
11 Apr 2018 at 13:45 3,028 viewed24 comments
WRITER: AFP

KOH PHI PHI LEY, Krabi: Hordes of tourists clamber across the white sand with selfie sticks as park rangers wade into turquoise waters to direct boats charging into the cliff-ringed cove.

Made famous by the 2000 movie The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Maya Bay on the western island of Koh Phi Phi Ley is now a case study in the ruinous costs of runaway tourism, swamped by up to 4,000 daily visitors.

"There is too many people here, it's bad," lamented Saad Lazrak, a 61-year-old from Morocco, as crowds around him swallowed the stretch of sand encircled by an amphitheatre of limestone cliffs.

Across the region, Southeast Asia's once-pristine beaches are reeling from decades of unchecked tourism as governments scramble to confront trash-filled waters and environmental degradation without puncturing a key economic driver.

Thailand's Maya Bay will be off limits for four months from June to September, officials announced last month, in a bid to save its ravaged coral reefs.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/to ... as-beaches

Boracay island's six-month closure to tourists, fortified by SWAT teams, underscores the Philippines' slide towards unchecked authoritarianism
27 April 2018

World-renowned Boracay Island took a forced vacation beginning on April 26, as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte turned a deaf ear to appeals not to close the country’s top tourist destination.

The six-month shutdown, enforced by the government to rehabilitate the island’s deteriorating environment, is expected to exact a heavy toll on the lives of over 35,000 workers in what was once described as the premier paradise island of the Philippines.

Over 600 heavily-armed security personnel have been deployed to the 10-square kilometer island to ensure with an iron-fist that Duterte’s executive order is implemented. The move has alienated most of the islanders who face bleak economic prospects in the months ahead.
http://www.atimes.com/article/no-vacati ... gman-rule/