The Leonardo DiCaprio film The Beach that came out in 2000 about a fictional island utopia hidden from the outside world helped make Thailand's Maya Bay very popular. Too popular, it turned out. By ...

On any given day in Thailand’s Maya Bay, up to 40 blacktip reef sharks cruise in the cyan shallows while about 4,000 tourists visit its white-sand beach flanked by towering cliffs. Shark numbers have ...

Sharks have returned in full numbers to a popular destination in Thailand, creating a difficult situation for an area looking to revive its tourism attraction. Video of Maya Bay, located on the island ...

Once one of Thailand’s most photographed beaches, Maya Bay now comes with strict rules and fines as authorities try to undo ...

Researchers in Thailand have documented the largest school of blacktip reef sharks ever recorded during an annual shark survey. Up to 158 sharks, all part of the same group, were recorded in Maya Bay ...

Thailand Supreme Court orders Royal Forest Department to restore Maya Bay after being affected by the shooting of The Beach movie. Nineteen plaintiffs including the Krabi provincial administrative ...

It’s just past 7 a.m. on a February morning in Maya Bay, several weeks after authorities reopened what is one of Thailand’s most popular tourist attractions to the world for the first time since June ...

Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park said two French tourists were fined after entering a no-swimming zone at Maya Bay, Krabi.

A facial recognition system will soon be adopted at Maya Bay to manage visitor flow and enhance conservation efforts, according to national park officials. The face-scanning system will be set up at ...

Up to 158 blacktip reef sharks were documented during Thailand’s “Shark Watch Project” survey, which experts said they believe is a record number. Photo by Thailand’s Department of National Parks, ...