 The Big Buddha statue on Koh Samui (Samui Island) (above); a mellow sunrise over Chaweng Beach (right); a rock roars like a petrified dragon out of the sea, in Angthong Marine National Park (below) |
 As tourism to Thailand grows in leaps and bounds, do tourists need to take lessons in the art of being good guests?
Noel Kelly, head of the Koh Samui Tourist Police Volunteers' Group on Thailand’s Koh Samui Island, has a unique view into the current state of tourism on the island. “Petty theft is a major problem”, he says. “We work with the Tourist Police to provide assistance in these and other cases. The role of the Tourist Police is not to police the tourists, but to act as a cultural bridge.”
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