Many Youtuber’s are reporting their dream holidays to Thailand’s iconic sights are being ruined by massive amounts of tourists.
Thailand’s tourism is fully recovered from Covid, except tourism is now back to the pre-Covid over-tourism amounts.
As one can see from watching 100’s of current Youtube videos, the reefs in 99% of the diving locations are still dark and gray, bleached out. They are getting worse and worse from continued over-tourism in 2023.
For anyone that has ever traveled anywhere else such as the Caribbean Islands, Australia, Hawaii or anywhere else that has colorful, vibrant reefs, Thailand will be a huge disappointment.
Add that to 1,000’s of tourists all crowding the beach at the same time, the noise, boat noise and people complaining completely ruin the experience.
I think most of us Thai’s are not going to go in the high season because we know what to expect.
If you don’t understand the over-tourism, see the photo from Maya Bay Mar 2023!