Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has earned about 1 million baht (29,000 USD) a day in entry fees, charged to tourists for visiting Phi-Phi islands, since the e-ticket system was introduced last July.
The Director of Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation’s foreign affairs division, Sunee Saksuea, said after the country submitted six Andaman national parks to UNESCO for world heritage site entitlement on December 18 last year, they had made way to the tentative list already.