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Hilton Pattaya earns Thailand Accessible Tourism Award 2013
(L to R) Sean Craig, Director of Finance;
Phatrarika Phatraprasit, Director of Business Development; Rudolf Troestler,
General Manager; and Montree Sattham, Director of Human Resources.
Hilton Pattaya June 30 announced that it has received the
2013 Thailand Accessible Tourism Award certified by Department of Tourism,
Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Thailand. The award was presented to
hotels that exemplify the high standard of universal design and provide
accessibility to all guests including the elderly, handicapped and pregnant
women.
“This award is testament that Hilton Pattaya stands out as a distinctive,
best in design and deeply cares about all guests, especially the
underprivileged and old-aged. We attempt to offer those guests facilities
and the finest in hospitality, service and dining for memorable experience,”
said Rudolf Troestler, general manager, Hilton Pattaya.
Hilton Pattaya is one of Hilton Worldwide’s managed properties in Thailand
that offers stunning guest rooms set in the heart of the city overlooking
Pattaya Beach and the Bay, perched atop Southeast Asia’s Largest Beachfront
Shopping Complex, Central Festival Pattaya Beach.
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Bangkok Airways to support
reconstruction program in Chiang Rai
Bangkok Airways will
contribute to the reconstruction of school
buildings affected by the Chiang Rai earthquake,
by providing air transportation to architects
and staff involved in the rebuilding process.
Bangkok Airways recently announced their
collaboration with the Association of Siamese
Architects under Royal Patronage to reconstruct
school buildings affected by the Chiang Rai
earthquake.
Bangkok Airways will provide air transportation
to architects and staff who participate in this
program.
The Association of Siamese Architects, together
with the Engineering Institute of Thailand under
H.M. the King’s patronage, the Consulting
Engineers Association of Thailand, Thai
Contractors Association Under H.M. the King’s
Patronage and the Design for Disasters architect
group have joined forces to help rehabilitate
Chiang Rai by rebuilding 9 schools, 9 homes and
2 temples as well as attempting to reduce
vulnerability in the local community to
effectively and sustainably confront a disaster.
The reconstruction program includes Muang Phan
Tambon Administration Organization School, Ban
Tha Hor School, Thanthong Wittaya School, Ban
Nong Bua School, Ban Thung Fapha School,
Chumchon Ban Pa Kor Dam School, Pong Phrae
Wittaya School, Ban Doi Chang School and Ban
Huai San Yao School.
The Chiang Rai rebuilding program can be
supported by donating to the “Association of
Siamese Architects for Chiang Rai Recovery” bank
account, no. 140-2-631196-6 Siam Commercial
Bank, Srivara Branch.
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Tourism leaders plan ‘domestic MICE mart’
Mayor Itthiphol
Kunplome (center left) and Nopparat
Methawikulchai (center right) director if the
Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau
preside over the opening ceremony.
Jetsada Homklin
Representatives from more than 20
tourism organizations brainstormed ideas on how
to revive the business-convention business in
Pattaya following May’s military coup.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome and Thailand Convention
and Exhibition Bureau director, Nopparat
Methawikulchai, opened the July 4 workshop at
the Royal Cliff Beach Resort’s Pattaya
Exhibition and Convention Hall.
Associations covering Thai hotels, airlines,
event management, conventions and more attended
the session, reviewing plans to bring meeting,
incentive, convention and exhibition buyers to
Pattaya for a “domestic MICE mart.”
The market would distribute information on MICE
services and organize activities for travel
buyers and sellers in hopes of bringing
conventions and meetings to Pattaya.
TCEB officials said any MICE strategy should
cover five objectives: restoring confidence,
promoting the Thai market, increasing
international competitiveness, public
sponsorship and international marketing.
Plans for restoration of the MICE industry and
the domestic MICE mart will be presented to the
National Council for Peace and Order which had
made the meeting sector a cornerstone of its
plans to revive tourism in the kingdom.
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Bangkok vows to reclaim top tourist destination title
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is
trying to restore confidence to reclaim its role
as the top tourist destination title from Kyoto,
Japan.
Bangkok Deputy Governor Amorn Kitchawengkul said
Bangkok lost its top tourist destination
championship to Kyoto and fell to the third
position (in Asia - and out of the top 10 in the
world) in a survey by the Travel + Leisure
magazine this year because of continuing
political demonstrations.
Bangkok’s city hall will discuss efforts to
restore confidence among tourists with operators
of five-star hotels whose client numbers have
dropped by half, he said.
The BMA will join with concerned organizations
in the government and private sectors to restore
confidence. It will explain Thailand’s local
situations to participants in international
conferences in Bangkok including those in the
International Publishers Association Congress
that was postponed from last year to September
this year due to the political situation, the
3rd Lower Mekong Tourism City Mayors’ Summit
this November and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)
next February.
In addition, city hall will organize activities
to promote tourism, especially annual activities
in the winter including music-in-the-park and
fashion street events. It will also organize
food festivals because Thailand is well-known
for its food.
Such activities are likely to woo tourists back
to Bangkok, Amorn said. (MCOT)
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