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Government, private-sector join to create disabled vendors area at Floating Market
Vimolrat Singnikorn
Government, business and social-development organizations
have come together to give disabled people a chance to build businesses and
sell their products in premier locations.
Itsara
Somchai, Minister of Social Development and Human Security in Thailand
presents the opening speech at the signing ceremony.
Manat Meepong, managing director of the Four Regions
Floating Market in Pattaya, signed an agreement with the Ministry of Social
Development and Human Security, the Pattaya Redemptorist Foundation and
Council of Disabled People to create a “central market” at the local tourist
attraction dedicated to vendors of goods created by those with disabilities.
Social Development Minister Itsara Somchai and
Undersecretary Panita Kamphu Na Ayutthaya were on hand to ink the agreement
Sept. 25. Rev. Worawut Saraphan, deputy director of the Redemptorist
Foundation for People with Disabilities board; Tananon Praichan, of the
Institute of Small and Medium Enterprises; and Wiriya Namsiripongpan, of the
disabled council, represented their organizations’ leadership.
Itsara called the agreement an important step toward
enabling the disabled to support themselves and evidence the landmark 2007
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act is working.
The agreement calls for not only the establishment of a
disabled-vendors market, but additional measures to train new product makers
and ensure they succeed. It will also be a model or test case for the
establishment of other central markets.
Under the pact, the organizations will provide consulting
services to occupational groups on product development, marketing, designing
a seal for disabled persons-made products, and other issues. They will also
assist with product distribution, registration and logistics. Finally, the
agreement offers disabled manufacturers support in budgeting, materials
procurement and human assistants.
Participants proudly announce the creation of a “central market”
at the Four
Regions Floating Market in Pattaya, dedicated to vendors of goods created by
those with disabilities.
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New executive assistant manager at Holiday Inn Pattaya
 It
is with great pleasure that Holiday Inn Pattaya announces the appointment of Ms
Jatuporn Phiukhao as executive assistant, effective October 18.
Jatuporn
Phiukhao.
Jatuporn has a wealth of experience in the people business;
prior to joining Holiday Inn Pattaya she was general manager at the Glacier
Hotel Khon Kaen, operations manager at Ibis Pattaya and rooms division manager
at King Power Pullman Hotel. She was also apart of the opening team to name just
a few of her roles.
She will be responsible for leading and developing the
Holiday Inn team in Pattaya and will continuously aim to achieve the hotel’s
goal of “creating great hotels guests love”.
Regularly scheduled Pattaya-Laos flights begin Oct. 29
Officials announce regularly scheduled flights from U-Tapao Pattaya to Luang
Prabang and Vientiane, return, will begin October 29.
Vimolrat Singnikorn
Airline service between U-Tapao-Pattaya International
Airport and Luang Prabang, Laos begins Oct. 29, capping Mayor Itthiphol
Kunplome’s effort to create regularly scheduled flights to the UNESCO World
Heritage city.
Laos Airlines will fly two round-trips per week between
U-Tapao and Laos. One will connect Luang Prabang and the other to the
capital Vientiane.
“Thailand and Laos have always had a close relationship,”
Laos Airlines President Sangprasert Mathuchan said at an Oct. 8 press
conference. “U-Tapao, in the past half-year, has seen an increased amount of
tourists and service.”
The effort to bring Laos routes to Pattaya began early
this summer with a charter flight for top business and political leaders in
June.
Flights will depart U-Tapao at 10 a.m. and arrive in
Luang Prabang at 12:15 p.m. The Vientiane flights leave Laos at 11:40 a.m.
and arrive at U-Tapao at 1:10 p.m. There will be two flights per week on
Fridays and Sundays.
The planes will follow a triangular route through the
three cities, with flights leaving Pattaya for Vientiane to return via Luang
Prabang.
“This is a good opportunity to increase brother-sister
cooperation,” Itthiphol said. “It will result in good relations between the
two countries to create tourism for the eastern region.”
He said Laos Airline has already attracted interest in the Pattaya
service from Japanese and European tour companies.
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