From early June, exporters of all sizes in Thailand will be able to promote their products at the cyber trade center, a new feature in the export section of web portal thailand.com

“We want to ensure exporters in Thailand take a big bite out of the global trade pie,” said Sermsin Sampala, President & CEO of thailand.com

Thailand.com will officially launch in June and offer five main channels: Export, Travel, Shopping, News and Business and Finance.

The export channel will feature a homepage facility with an email address at [email protected], a 24-hour virtual trade fair, updates on import and export regulations and information on delivery and logistics, global trade shows and potential export markets.

A homepage can include such information as the company’s profile, the management team, offices, products and services, financial data, client references, technology, manufacturing processes and press releases. Each electronic page will cost 3,000 baht bi-annually.

“What makes us stand out as a strong alternative for exporters besides the memorable URL is our comprehensive export-focused information and services like search facilities, and company and product lists.”

Exporters using thailand.com will have a prospective market of about 300 million people - the number now using the Internet around the world. In the next five years, this figure is likely to rise to over 700 million.

Mr. Sermsin said this growth would mean market expansion for exporters, as Internet users are high-potential B2B customers.

“By investing in thailand.com, exporters will be able to penetrate target groups, 24 hours a day,” he added. “That could translate into major sales increases.”

Thai portal will spend 100 million baht putting the name thailand.com at the top of the search rankings in all leading search engines. A sizeable amount of the money will also go on an international publicity campaign on TV stations such as CNN and key publications like The Wall Street Journal and Forbes magazine.

To date, about 100 leading export-focused firms have registered with thailand.com

This Friday, May 12, 6:00 p.m., the German-Thai Chamber of Commerce meets again at the Moon River Pub for their regular get-together, in German called “stammtisch”, where everybody is invited to come and join. Members of the Chamber in Bangkok will be present as well as members of the Pattaya Community and the Industry of the Eastern Seaboard. Everybody will have tons of fun and get out of it what they expect.

Cold beer as well as warm food will be plenty, and the Thai Garden Resort is delighted to offer special “Chamber Rates” for all who would like to spend the weekend in the “Fun Resort City” of Pattaya.