Phasakorn Channgam
Association veteran Sinchai Wattanasartsathorn was elected as
president of the Pattaya Business & Tourism Association, vowing to help area
entrepreneurs prepare for Thailand’s entrance into the ASEAN Economic
Community in 2015.
Sinchai
Wattanasartsathorn has been elected president of the Pattaya Business and
Tourism Association for the 2103-2015 term.
Sinchai, who has worked with the PBTA for a decade and
most recently as vice president, was elected unanimously at a March 12
meeting chaired by Chonburi Gov. Khomsan Ekachai.
Sinchai succeeds former Lions Club district governor and Chonburi Chamber of
Commerce President Wiwat Pattanasin as PBTA’s president.
Sinchai, who has been in the hotel business for over 30 years as owner and
GM of the Flipper Lodge Group in Pattaya, and who is also vice president of
the Sawang Boriboon Foundation, said he initially wants to focus on the
relationship between association members and query them on issues important
to them.
Later on, he wants to promote marketing, monitor Pattaya’s embattled public
utilities system, and prepare for the AEC.
“I will manage the association under the principle of unity in working
together …,” he said. His appointed 16 member committee will include “new
blood businessmen in their early 30s, who are working in Pattaya City. … I
expect to reveal the new members of the committee within the next meeting.”
Sinchai predicts “an increase of at least 10% in tourists … from the Russian
and Chinese markets.”
He also predicts a large increase in business and tourism from the upcoming
Asean Economic Community (AEC), and concluded that “the association must
prepare for these changes in the near future.”
