Bangkok (TAN): Thailand tourism minister Weerasak Kowsurat has said the country would make new laws that would ensure better safety in adventure tourism.
This come weeks after a Canadian tourist plunged to his death when a zipline cable snapped at Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand.
“It’s time we have a law to enforce better safety,” The Bangkok Post quoted the minister as saying. “We’ve found that legal oversight (for these attractions) is lacking compared to other countries.”
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In the Chiang Mai accident, the victim, who was with a group of friends and his girlfriend, fell more than a hundred metres into a creek. The cable apparently gave away soon after he was released.
The incident took place at an attraction called Flight of the Gibbon that is five kilometres long 33 different platforms.
