Phasakorn Channgam
Regional tourism-industry executives were given lessons
on how to market Pattaya and Chonburi effectively in Europe and the Middle
East at a Tourism Authority of Thailand seminar last month.
Juthaporn Rerngronasa, TAT
deputy marketing director for Europe, Africa, Middle East and America.
TAT representative offices in Dubai, U.A.E.; Frankfurt,
London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, and Stockholm met with members of the Pattaya
Business & Tourism Association, Pattaya City Council and Chonburi
tourism-promotion office April 17 at the Ravindra Beach Resort and Spa.
Juthaporn Rerngronasa, TAT deputy marketing director for
Europe, Africa, Middle East and America said the workshop was designed to
offer advice and guidance on marketing the Pattaya area in Europe.
The centerpiece of the seminar was a “tourism clinic”
where local tour operators could meet individually with the TAT overseas
office executives about marketing questions in detail.
The hope is the local entrepreneurs will implement some
of the advice they heard to improve tourist arrivals from recession-ridden
Europe.
Representatives from European
tourism offices provide advice to Pattaya and Chonburi businesses.
Gen. Komkrich Sriyabhandha, vice president - airports,
and representative of Bangkok Airways, received trophies from the Thailand
Energy Awards Committee presented by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at
Santi Maitree Buildings, House of Government.
Gen. Komkrich Sriyabhandha
receives one of the company’s two outstanding trophies from Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra.
Privately-operated by Bangkok Airways, both Sukhothai
Airport and Samui Airport have already won several green awards in the past.
This past year, Sukhothai Airport won the Outstanding Award in Thailand
Energy Award 2011’s Energy Conservation category; while Samui Airport also
won the 1st runner-up of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Best
Practice for Energy Efficient Buildings in Tropical Building category from
the ASEAN Energy Awards 2011 organized by ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE).
Thailand Energy Awards 2011 were organized by the
Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency, Ministry of
Energy, with an aim to show appreciation and recognition to those
organizations who put into practice the energy saving policy.
