Thank you for not visiting: tourist hotspots that have done a Koh Tachai
by Simon Usborne from on (#1E2BY)

Thai authorities have closed the celebrated scuba-diving destination to visitors - but it's not the first 'honeypot' site to take such action
Related: Thailand closes 'overcrowded' Koh Tachai island to tourists
The trouble for Koh Tachai was that its beaches were just a little too white, its coral reef too colourful, its marine life too dazzling. Now you can't go there, because Thai authorities have shut it to tourists - the latest and most drastic response to a booming and increasingly itinerant global population.
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