Tourists can find them, so why are illegal resorts off police radar?

If tourists can find and avoid these illegal resorts as easily as the author suggests, can’t the authorities also find them and take action? 

I agree that “the problem should be tackled seriously”, but not by involving tourists, since “forest encroachment and illegal occupation of state land has existed for a long time in Thailand”. I’m not sure many tourists worry, as the writer’s “friend” states, especially when the authorities responsible for this issue do little to change it.  

Jerry Feldman