Duangrit Bunnag scans the murky white high-rises that sketch Bangkok’s haphazard skyline, despairing of the drab view from his architecture firm’s clean and minimalist office. He despairs of the overdone pseudo-Thai villas that seem to spring up on every stretch of available sand.
As climate-change guilt among tourists grows, hotels and resorts are finding they need to do more to please the green consumer than simply ask them to re-use their towels. Undersea air-cooling systems, intelligent lighting and spas constructed entirely from mud are all being employed to woo tourists concerned about their carbon footprint.