Deputy Mayor Wutisak Rermkitkarn presides
over a meeting with the Consumer Protection Police Division and
representatives of the Consumer Union.
Manoon Makpol
Pattaya officials plan to call yet another meeting
with jet ski operators to try and resolve the embarrassing, long-running
stream of scams and rip-offs marring the city’s image.
Deputy Mayor Wutisak Rermkitkarn presided over a July
25 meeting with the Consumer Protection Police Division and
representatives of the Consumer Union. Pattaya Permanent Secretary
Pakorn Sukhonthachat said the future meeting with jet ski operators
again would be aimed at registering jet ski vendors and deciding on
regulations to govern them.
No date was announced for the meeting, which would be
the fourth of its kind in the past 18 months. None of the previous
sessions have reached the goal of either registering all the vendors or
setting any sort of new regulation.
Nonetheless, Pakorn joined the long string of public
officials to wring their hands and agree that the extortion, violence
and theft perpetrated by a number of jet ski operators was a black mark
on the city’s image and bad for tourists.
He pledged that with more talk, things surely must
work themselves out.
