Jomtien beach to reopen fully in 2025
published : 2 Aug 2022 at 11:44
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
The 3.5-kilometre-long Na Jomtien beach in Pattaya City is expected to fully reopen to tourists in 2025.
Construction of the 50-metre wide sand fences along the first 800-metre section of beach stretching to the south of Soi Na Jomtien 11 ended last week.
The second phase of construction has now begun and is expected to end in November 2025, said the Marine Department.
The northern section of the beach where more sand fences are being built extends to Pattaya Water Park, north of Soi Na Jomtien 11.
Starting in 2020, the erosion prevention project began after erosion had become serious enough to threaten the popular beach and tourism in the area.
Coastal erosion at Na Jomtien beach had resulted in it shrinking by about 60 rai in size between 1976 and 2015.
Pattaya ranked the eighth most popular tourist destination in the world in 2022, according to online travel booking platform Agoda.
Vocabulary
- erosion: gradually destroying the surface of something through the action of wind, rain, etc; to be gradually destroyed in this way - การกัดกร่อน,การเซาะ
- fence: a structure made of wood or wire supported with posts that is put between two areas of land as a boundary, or around a garden/yard, field, etc. to keep animals in, or to keep people and animals out - รั้ว
- phase: a particular period of time during the development of something - ตอน, ขั้นตอน, ช่วง, ระยะ
- prevention: preventing something bad from happening - การป้องกันภ้ย
- rank: to put someone or something into a position according to their success, importance, size etc - จัดลำดับ
- shrink: to become smaller, or to make something smaller - หดตัว, เล็กลง
