Journal of Tourism & Hospitality
Open Access

Abstract

Zero Discharge of Water in Green Leaf Hotel Operation, Thailand

Amphai Wejwithan

The relationship between growth of tourism industry and wastewater has been the big issue in many important tourism destinations in Thailand. Ao-Nang area is in Krabi province in the southern of Thailand, the one of those destinations that has been faced with the big volume of wastewater and also waste water discharge problem. The main concern is the beaches and coastal area. Smelling of the un-well treated or untreated wastewater is the negative impacts to the tourism area such as Ao-Nang. Hotel businesses in the area have been blamed as one of the most important source of the wastewater. The green leaf hotel who are willing to avoid the long term impacts form wastewater a as a big issue in the tourism destinations and effects to the business both direct and indirect ways. In this paper, the example of this report is one of the top green operation hotels in country. This hotel is Pakasai Resort Krabi, one of the five leave hotel in the Green Leaf Certification System (GLCS) and one of the hotel who want to create zero discharge case of water, in Thailand.