Comments on: Ethical Travel: Should You Visit Thailand’s Long Neck Women Villages?

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By: Pierre

Pierre — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 13:00:52 +0000

Thanks for the insight. We presently are in Chiang Mai and were seeing there tours offered and did our research. This totally unacceptable . Let’s accept people as refugees and give them rights without taking advantage of them. This is definitely not one activity we will be a part of. Human dignity first.

By: Blerina

Blerina — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:43:15 +0000

Oh thank you very much for the article! I thought was alone thinking the “unhumanity” of this Rings and all the Women that i saw in this Village were really beautiful but such a Sad Looking, and i try to talk to them but they were looking scare and pretending not to understand english! I think this Women should be from the Human Right Organisation protected! What i see there was not pure Tradition but was pure Dishonest for Women and pure Bussines who someone else take the big amounts!

By: Guilherme N.

Guilherme N. — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:01:42 +0000

Great article. Never thought about it that way. We will be there in 2 weeks and will try to follow your tips to make it the most of it always respecting their culture.

By: Jessica Festa

Jessica Festa — Thu, 28 May 2015 21:04:14 +0000

In reply to ruji. @Ruji: Thank you for the kind words. Very true...

By: ruji

ruji — Fri, 15 May 2015 16:37:36 +0000

Such a great article. I visited a Kayan village in December and made sure to only purchase directly from the Kayan women. They are amazing people. All survivors….

By: Jessica Festa

Jessica Festa — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:01:31 +0000

In reply to John Williams. @John: Great questions. Thank you so much for the additional resources.

By: John Williams

John Williams — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:05:43 +0000

Katie, after reading your last paragraph I’d love to know why you suggest that visiting villages like this is ethical.
I have just read Martin Stevenson’s ‘Leave only footprints’ where he draws a completely different conclusion. These villages have been described as ‘human zoos’ by the UNHCR.
Tourism Concern and Martin highlight the plight of 20 Kayan women who were refused exit visas which would have allowed them to settle overseas under an UNHCR scheme. The suggestion is that the business men who take the bulk of the entry money to these villages didn’t want to lose their nice little earner. The women have been falsely informed that their necks will break if they remove the rings.
Pretty nearly everyone in the world needs money, is this a valid argument in this case? It seems that at first the Thai Government weren’t too concerned about their plight but then it found a way of making money from the Padaung. Is the government afraid that if they give them rights as citizens that they families would pursue education to higher grades and find employment in other fields than posing for tourists?
This story is worthy of more detailed research for readers to make their own minds up on this matter.
http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/index.php?page=news/132/154/Kayan-museum-ordered-to-close.html
http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/index.php?page=news/29/154/Burmese-refugees-trapped-by-tourism.html