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Calling all tourism professionals
Workshop scheduled on protecting children
To be held in Thai language
With the support of the Thai Ministry of Tourism and
Sports’ International Cooperation Division, The Code and ECPAT International
would like to invite tourism professionals in Pattaya City to attend a one
day workshop on protecting children against commercial sexual exploitation
in travel and tourism, which includes the prostitution of children, child
sex tourism and the sex trafficking of children.
We strongly believe that tourism professionals can be an important ally for
the protection of children and it is an important aspect of responsible and
sustainable tourism. The specific objectives of the workshop are:
- To strengthen understanding of the issue of commercial sexual exploitation
of children, prostitution of children and child sex tourism;
- Provide information on how to report cases to local authorities, law
enforcement and NGOs;
- Provide effective resources and tools to enable tourism professionals to
create child-friendly companies, such as The Code or creating child
protection policies and procedures.
Sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ECPAT Netherlands,
the workshop is free of charge but space is limited to 25 participants. The
official language of this workshop is Thai and provides complementary lunch
to all participants.
Workshop Date: 11 July 2013 [Thursday] at Pullman Pattaya Hotel G
Please send confirmation email to [email protected] with the names of the
participants/company.
Depending on the number of reservations, there is a possibility of a second
round of workshops.
If there are any additional questions, please contact: Ms. Patchareeboon
Sakulpitakphon (Mam), Project Manager, The Code, +66 2 215 3388 ext. 111.
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SkyTrax names Bangkok Airways World’s 3rd Best Regional Airline and Asia’s 2nd Best Regional Airline
 SkyTrax
has revealed the winners of their prestigious awards program called
“World Airline Awards 2013” that had more than 18 million airline
passengers from around the world voting for their favorite travel
experiences. Bangkok Airways was voted the 3rd place in the category of
World’s Best Regional Airline and 2nd place in the category of the Best
Regional Airline in Asia.
As Puttipong Prasarttong-Osoth, president of Bangkok Airways said, “I
and all staff of Bangkok Airways would like to express our sincere
thanks to all passengers who cast their votes for us. It is such an
honor to be recognized and voted (these awards). This shows that the
hard work and dedication from both front-line and back of the house
staff have paid off. Moreover, these achievements signify that Bangkok
Airways is more than ready to soar higher when ASEAN Economic Community
(AEC) is fully integrated.”
Bangkok Airways is the only airline in Asia that has won the SkyTrax
Best Regional Airline Awards for nine consecutive years from 2004 - 2013
and the only airline to have won the ‘Best Overseas Regional Airline’
award in the UK’s Selling Long Haul Travel Agents Choice awards for
seven consecutive years from 2006 - 2012.
Additionally, Bangkok Airways is categorized with a 4-star rating by
SkyTrax. The Official SkyTrax 4-Star Airline rating signifies airlines
providing a good standard of product across all travel categories -
combining with a good standard of staff service delivery across the
onboard and airport environments. 4-Star rating airlines also include
Air France, British Airways, Thai Airways, Emirates, Etihad to name a
few.
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