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108 Methods For Hotel Business
Survival
| Seminar
Schedule |
| Date |
Region |
Venue |
| July 1999 |
Southern region |
Metropole, Phuket |
| August 1999 |
Northern region |
Lanna Palace, Chiang Mai |
| September 1999 |
Central region |
Hilton International Bangkok at
Nai Lert Park or Dusit Thani, Bangkok |
| October 1999 |
Eastern Region |
Dusit Resort Pattaya |
As a result of the current economic crisis, most
businesses have attempted to survive by reducing costs. This can be done by adjusting and
improving management efficiency which will in turn reduce production costs.
The Green Leaf Foundation, in cooperation with Thai Hotels Association
(THA), Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Demand Side Management Office of the
Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (DSM of EGAT), Association for the
Development of Environment Quality (ADEQ), Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA), United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP/ROAP) with support from the World Bank, National Energy
Policy Office (NEPO) and leading hotels, will organize a seminar on "108 Methods for
Hotel Business Survival".
The seminar will provide an opportunity for participants to learn and
share experiences about cost reduction in the hotel industry, which will also help
environmental and natural resource protection, energy and water conservation. Participants
will be able to visit the exhibition on the successful hotels which have received the
Green Leaf Certificates at the seminar.
The Objective of the Seminar
1. To inform the participants of the benefit of appropriate practices
for environmental and natural resources management, which will help reduce costs.
2. Participants will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and
experiences with experts in environmental protection, energy and natural resource
conservation.
3. To publicize the Green Leaf standards in the hotel industry
environment and natural resources protection and conservation.
Who will benefit from the seminar?
1. Owners of hotels, restaurants, and tour operators.
2. Hotel personnel
3. Educational institution personnel
4. Representatives from relevant government and private sectors
5. Media representatives
6. Students and public who are interested in the seminar
Entrepreneurs in the Hotel Industry and related business owners are
invited to participate in the seminars as scheduled above.
Contact information: the Green Leaf Foundation Secretariat, 203-209/3
Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue, Bowonnivet, Bangkok 10200. Phone : 281-9496, Fax : 281-4188.
The Green Leaf Foundation
The Green Leaf Foundation was officially
registered on March 17th 1998. It was the day that members of the Board of Environmental
Promotion of Tourism Activities, or BEPTA, were pleased and proud of their hard work and
vision in developing both the quality of the environmental and the tourism industry at the
same time. The visionary organizations are composed of: Tourism Authority of Thailand,
Thai Hotels Association, United Nations Environment Program, Demand Side Management Office
of Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Association for the Development of
Environmental Quality, and the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority
The Green Leaf Foundation was established by the 6 organizations with
the same determination and responsibility, with support fund sponsorship from various
local and international organizations. They have managed to organize several seminars in
training, environmental educational materials, environmental practical standards, and
distribution of the knowledge in the hopes of promoting awareness of the correct detection
and measurement of environmental development and natural resources conservation.
Their main objective is for the growth of the tourism industry with the
quality of environmental management. Their success is because of the sponsorship fund from
the British Embassy, Asia Foundation, United States - Asia Environmental Partnership,
National Energy Policy Office, Department of Environmental Quality Promotion, Faculty of
Environment and Resources Studies, Mahidol University, Tridhod Three-Generation School
Village, Dusit Group, Hilton International Bangkok at Nai Lert Park, May Fair Inn Company
Limited, Thai International Company Limited, and other leading hotels in Thailand.
The Green Leaf Program for hotels under the Green Leaf Foundation is
the first step in the development of environmental quality for the tourism industry. More
and more programs will be organized by the Foundation in the future, once the Foundation
has enough capacity to move on. The following programs are being planned.
The Green Leaf Programs are organized by the BEPTA, which has now
completed an environmental practical checklist for hotels to conduct assessment and to be
audited by the BEPTA appointed Audit Team. The assessment will be graded by standard
scores to measure each operation’s efficiency in environmental management. The
results of the assessment, once compared with the standard score of the hotels, will be
awarded with a Green Leaf Certificate ranging from 1 to 5 levels, 5 denoting the most
practiced hotel in environmental management.
The Green Leaf Foundations has the confidence in the efforts of hotel
owners, operators, and their business partners in collaboratively working together towards
the betterment in managing the environmental quality for the prosperity and sustainability
of the industry and the country.
Objectives of the Green Leaf Program:
1. To encourage and improve the efficiency of hotels and related
businesses in the tourism industry to respond to environmental development and protection.
2. To establish a nationwide classification of environmental standards
in Thai hotels in accordance with the needs of customers and the development of
technological efficiency.
3. To raise awareness of Thailand’s travel and tourism industry in
promoting environmental quality and preservation.
4. To create a positive image and increase competitive advantage for
Thailand on the world market.
Activities of Green Leaf Program:
1. Organize and promote environmental activities for the hotel and
tourism industry in the form of meetings, seminars, manuals, and other creative activities
to promote awareness and understanding of how to operate hotels effectively and
environmentally friendly.
2. Coordinate and organize visits and audition sample hotels and
provide suggestions on how to use resources efficiently.
3. Coordinate and support studies to establish environmental standards
and efficiency in running an operation.
4. Organize activities and criterion to certify environmentally
friendly hotels for the Green Leaf Certificate from 1 to 5, 5 denoting the best
environmentally friendly hotels.
5. Issue Green Leaf Hotel Directory to be distributed on various
occasions.
6. Promote the Green Leaf hotels and other environmental activities
locally and overseas.
7. Continue developing and improving standards of environmentally
friendly hotels in accordance with customers’ requirements and change of technology.
8. Organize and promote activities to enhance role and cooperation
among hotels and governmental and private organizations in order to protect, prevent, and
solve environmental problems of the community.
The Process of Applying to the Green Leaf Program:
All hotels in Thailand will be invited to join the program. Inquiries
can be made through the Tourism Authority Offices around the country and through the Thai
Hotels Association Office or the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s Office.
The Application can be obtained and returned from the Green Leaf Secretariat Office
temporarily located at the Thai Hotels Association. The completed application should be
returned to the same office together with the registration fee of Bht. 2,500.00 (two
thousand five hundred).
TAT to Organize First Thailand Health
Travel Show
Bangkok, Thailand, June 21, 1999 — Continuing its
focus on niche-markets as part of the Amazing Thailand campaign, the Tourism Authority of
Thailand is to organize Thailand’s first travel trade mart for health professionals
in Bangkok, tentatively in August 1999.
The show will bring representatives of companies specializing in health
travel from abroad to meet with Thai sellers from the many spas, hospitals, meditation
retreats, herbal healing centers, massage clinics and yoga centers.
Many local tour operators specializing in handling people coming to
Thailand for medical treatment and meditation retreats will also be exhibiting.
The Health Travel Mart has been supported with keen interest by Public
Health Minister Korn Dabbaransi, himself a former TAT chairman.
Said TAT Governor Seree Wangpaichitr, "Thailand is a land where
opportunities to relax, refresh and rejuvenate the mind, body and spirit abound. These
unique opportunities are part of the kingdom’s Buddhist heritage that has been passed
down over time."
He said Thailand has a long tradition of natural healing and
healthcare. This is evidenced in Thai cooking with its emphasis on balance and widespread
use of medicinal herbs, in the traditional massage, in the spas and health resorts where
remedies are derived from natural herbs and local wisdom, and in state of the art
hospitals with sophisticated systems and highly qualified staff.
The cost of coming to Thailand for a heath recovery holiday is also
minuscule compared to other global destinations, thanks mainly to the July 1997 baht
devaluation.
TAT’s Marketing Promotion Department Director Patpong Abhijatpong
said the show would give a boost to local herbal remedies and allow them to generate
alternative revenue streams, which in turn will help them upgrade professionalism and
quality standards.
He said it is part of the TAT’s continuing focus on promoting
niche-markets. "This year, we have organized a Food Conference and a Golf Mart. Both
of these will help broaden the profile of visitor arrivals to Thailand."
Healthcare is one of the biggest businesses in the world. In its quest
for healthcare visitor market, Thailand faces considerable competition from the hot
springs of Europe, the mud therapy spas of the Middle East and various other places in
Latin America and Africa.
But Patpong said Thailand, along with its ASEAN neighbors, clearly had
an edge of both cost and quality. The Health Travel Mart is expected to give this market a
major boost.
Thai hospitals are already well known among the neighboring countries
of Indochina and South Asia for their high quality treatments. Many local hospitals have
been affected by the recent economic crisis and are looking to get additional sources of
business from abroad.
Recently, TAT published new brochures entitled "Blue Horizon, Green
Heartland" featuring essential information on healthcare services in Thailand. The
brochures have been distributed to travel agents worldwide.
TAT and Adventurous Motorists to
Caravan to Vietnam
Bangkok, Thailand, June 17, 1999 — The Tourism
Authority of Thailand (TAT) and a group of adventurous motorists will participate in the
Thailand-Laos-Vietnam Friendship Caravan to be operated between the three countries
between 18-28 July, 1999.
The Caravan is being jointly organized by TAT in cooperation with the
National Tourism Authority of Lao P.D.R. and the Vietnam National Administration of
Tourism. Each of the three NTOs are in the midst of major tourism promotion campaigns,
viz., Amazing Thailand 1998-1999, Visit Laos Year 1999-2000 and Vietnam - A Destination
for the New Millennium.
Beyond strengthening relations between the peoples of the three
countries, the Friendship Caravan is aimed at boosting overland tourism through the
Greater Mekong Subregion, especially the newly-developed Highway Routes 8 and 9 along
which the infrastructure is well advanced. It will also increase the convenience of travel
between the three countries.
The caravan trip is divided into groups from two countries:
Groups from Thailand: Depart from July 18 - 28, 1999.
Groups from Laos: Depart from July 19-30, 1999.
The caravan-style convoy of cars will start from Thailand, cross over
the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge to Laos, and then onto Vietnam. Groups will return to
Thailand through Laos. The trip will be supervised by officials and working teams from
each of the 3 countries.
The registration fee for groups joining from Thailand is 27,000
baht/car (minimum of two persons per vehicle). The rate includes all meals throughout the
trip; 10 nights’ accommodation (twin beds); entrance fees for tourist attractions in
Thailand, Laos and Vietnam; Boarding pass fee for Laos and Vietnam; visa entry fee for
Laos and Vietnam; and deposit. Participants must be in good health. They need to submit
various documentation, including passports, licenses and photographs.
The vehicles to be entered in the caravan can be either cars or 4x4 WD
pick-ups with engines not less than 1600 cc. or 85 hp. The vehicles must be no more than
five years old and have at least two front-seat safety belts. Each vehicle is limited to a
maximum of four persons (driver included). All vehicles will have to be inspected by the
organizers. Date, time and place of vehicle inspection will be forwarded in advance to the
participants.
For more information, please contact the TAT’s Youth Travel Division, Tel:
694-1222 ext. 1781-1787 or Fax: 6941409.
The Pattaya - Sydney Connection
North Sydney (Australia) Leagues Club means nothing to
most Pattaya residents, but the members of the Pattaya Road Show know all about it. On
their successful visit to Sydney, they were the guests of the Leagues Club for a dinner
held in their honour.
The connection between Pattaya and this club is interesting. Local
businessman Bryant Berry of Northern Thai Realty and Export company, has a life-long
friend in charge of the North Sydney Leagues Club and when he knew of the Road Show’s
visit he contacted his Sydneysider mate. As the visiting Pattaya contingent found out,
Aussies are friendly and quick decision makers. "Send ‘em over, Mate. We’ll
look after them," was the immediate response.
On the Road Show’s first night in Sydney, they went to the club
unsure of what was in store, to be met by Melissa Berry, Bryant’s daughter, who had
stayed back just to welcome the Pattaya people. The next surprise was the dinner itself -
a sumptuous meal with the tab being picked up by Bryant in Pattaya.
After dinner, the guests were then taken on a tour of the huge complex
by Melissa and Paul Khan, the Club Manager, and even given some poker machine money to let
them all have a little flutter on the poker machines. Road Show MC Peter Malhotra soon had
used up his allocation and then tried putting 20 baht notes into the electronic machines,
but found these were rejected!
With this type of welcome being extended to the local Thai delegation, it is no wonder
that Khun Sutham Phanthusak, MD of the Woodlands Resort, has returned convinced that this
Road Show promotion for Pattaya has consolidated the relationship between Pattaya and
Australia and will bring benefits to the entire Pattaya population in the forthcoming
tourist season.
Romanian Cultural Center opens in
Bangkok
by Elfi
The opening ceremony of the first Romanian Cultural Center in Thailand
and South East Asia recently took place on the premises of Srinakharinwirot University in
Bangkok. HE General Prem Tinsulanonda, President of Privy Council and Statesman presided
over the event which was dedicated to His Majesty the King’s Sixth Cycle Birthday.
With the opening of the Romanian Cultural Center, the links and the
academic cooperation between the Srinakharinwirot University and the Blaga University at
Sibui were further strengthened. Both parties previously signed a General Agreement that
each would set up a cultural center in the other’s country.
"The reason is to promote learning of each other’s language
and therefore set up the basics for a better understanding of the culture and civilization
of the host nation," as Dr. Vira Supakit, director of the Central Library of the
University, said in his report.
The new Romanian Cultural Center comprises a photo exhibition entitled
"Churches, Monasteries and Castles in Romania", a library with various books,
albums and magazines about Romanian culture, science and other fields of interest, as well
as a computer center. Many traditional folk objects, a generous contribution of the
Embassy of Romania, the Srinakharinwirot University and the Lucian Blaga University are
also on display. The Center intends to help students of the university and visitors to
come closer to the rich spiritual heritage of Romania.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sumonta Promboon, president of Srinakharinwirot
University, expressed during her welcome address her gratitude to the participants of this
special event, for their valuable support and endorsement. Her thanks went especially to
HE General Prem Tinsulanonda for his kind acceptance to preside over the opening ceremony.
HE Dr. Ioan Voicu, Romania’s Ambassador to Thailand, thanked, in
the name of all Romanian guests, HE General Prem Tinsulanonda for his presence and the
Srinakharinwirot University for the generous support in making this event possible. Dr.
Voicu mentioned that the inauguration coincides with the 50th anniversary of the
Srinkharinwirot University and conveyed in the name of the Romanian Embassy his cordial
congratulations to the president, the teaching staff and the students. He expressed his
hope that future activities will contribute to the development of friendship and mutual
understanding between Romanian and Thai citizens, in particular at the level of the
younger generation.
HE General Prem Tinsulanonda congratulated both universities and the
Embassy of Romania for their contribution in promoting the development of cultural
understanding in an increasingly complex world. He then officially declared open the
Romanian Cultural Center in Thailand.
In the near future, a Thai Cultural Center will be opened in Sibiu, at the premises of
Lucian Blaga University.
Royal Varuna Sails Into The New
Millennium
This is the third and final part of the history of
the development of yachting, focusing on Pattaya’s Royal Varuna Yacht Club which
celebrated the 42nd year of its founding two weeks ago.
Peter Cummins reports from Pattaya
The Optimists
Varuna pursues a vigorous children’s training programme, conducted
in the small Optimist dinghy, numerically the largest one-design class, sailed in more
than 100 countries worldwide.
 Lasers racing off
the Royal Varuna Yacht Club, preparing for the 1998 Asian Pacific Championships. Photo
Peter Cummins
Appropriately enough, on International Children’s Day, the 8th of
January, l977, the Yacht Racing Association of Thailand formed the Junior Sailing Squadron
of Thailand (JSST), with a mandate, inter alia, "of promoting youth sailing
throughout the Kingdom."
The 2.4 m. Optimist dinghy is the ideal trainer and upwards of 600
young people (under 16) have been trained by joint JSST-Royal Varuna courses over the past
two decades. Many of them, such as Navy man Damrongsak Vongtim and Royal Varuna’s
Patrick Helms, have moved on to become national and regional champions. The 25th junior
sailing programme has just finished, with a new batch of more than 20 youngsters
graduating as fearless, competent little sailors.
Eighth Varuna Flag Commodore, Albert Chandler (l975-l977), an Olympic
and international yachting judge, has been the principal force behind these - and many
other - programmes and was, for several years, president of the prestigious International
Optimist Dinghy Association (IODA) - the only Thai-based president in the
Association’s history.
 42
years of Royal Varuna Commodores
Varuna Goes International
Over the past twenty years, Royal Varuna has hosted and co-managed all
the big international regattas held in the Kingdom, starting with the 1978 Singha Fireball
World Championships which was the first world yachting event to come to Thai - and Asian -
shores. Early in 2000, the British- based International Fireball Association, has
requested a repeat - Y2K notwithstanding!
Then, in 1979, the IODA world championships came to Thailand for the
first time and although Varuna was not the venue, the Club co-managed the regatta, sailed
off Jomtien Beach.
In l984, the Laser Pacifics and World Masters Championships and, in
l989, the International Enterprise Dinghy World Championships were both held at Varuna,
and again, both events were a first for an Asian venue.
The International Laser Association came again in 1998, holding the
Asian Pacific Laser and Laser Radial Championships off Varuna: a most successful event
with 60 participants from the region.
The Phuket King’s Cup Regatta, established by Royal Varuna sailors
to honour the Club’s Royal Patron, HM the King on the occasion of his 60th birthday
in 1987, is now recognized as one of the world’s great regatta weeks. The thirteenth,
to be sailed over the Monarch’s birthday weekend, the first week in December, is
already on line to be the most successful ever.
Although Varuna is strictly a dinghy club with all craft beach
launched, and hence no keel boats, nevertheless, many of Thailand’s keel boat sailors
are Royal Varuna members and the Club keeps a close liaison with the Yacht Cruising
Association (Thailand). Royal Varuna’s Bill Gasson, undisputedly one of the
region’s best keel boat sailors, is a four-time winner of the Phuket King’s Cup
Regatta.
In March 1997, the Volvo Topcat World Championships were held, the
first such event this group has organized outside their European home waters. The more
than 200 participants and supporters could not believe what they were experiencing at the
time. The majority of them had just come from a Northern European winter, with the
thermometer in some parts hovering at minus 10 degrees C. This group, too, is looking for
another foray into Thailand’s user-friendly waters.
 Launching - not all
that easy in the south-westerly monsoon as an Optimist finds out. Photo Peter Cummins
The racing has proceeded, nevertheless - with or without sponsorship -
with long-distance and "round-the-buoys" courses, in-shore races and ongoing
series races. Trans-Gulf events, the "Royal Vega Rudder" trophy race,
commemorating HM the King’s Gulf crossing in an OK dinghy in April l966, and the
Prince Bira Memorial Trophy race are just some of the great events on the sailing
calendar.
There is a trophy enshrined at the Royal Garden Resort, Hua Hin, for
the fastest Trans-Gulf crossing (east/west) - considerably less than five hours (4-22-30),
established in March, 1992.
Varuna Sees A Resurgent Pattaya
With around 350 active members, comprising some 30 percent Thai and 70
percent drawn from the expatriate community, the diplomatic corps and the private sector,
Royal Varuna at peak weekends resembles a great cross- section of society.
The strength of the Royal Varuna Yacht Club lies in this very
diversity, which imbues the Club with an indomitable spirit. Many members recall the fire
several years ago, which destroyed almost 200 of the club’s boats. Even as the
boat-storage area and a third of the boats were still smouldering, the club, like the
mythical phoenix, "arose from the ashes". Teams had arrived for the selection
trials for the Fifteenth Southeast Asian Games, and even though some of the Fireballs,
Lasers and Enterprises to be used for the trials were charred, twisted wrecks, the club
rose to the occasion, found other boats and Thailand’s team went on to win five golds
and three silvers in the eight yacht-racing events of those Games.
Since those carefree days of the 1950s and 1960s, the club has
certainly changed; but these changes are cosmetic rather than substantive.
Royal Varuna has certainly resisted the concrete jungle which proceeded
up Pattaya Hill. And although former city fathers of Pattaya have done a remarkable job of
turning founder Walter Meyer’s "shimmering shores" of yore into a
"polluted pond", the Club still stands out as an oasis of sanity in a mad desert
of development.
 Royal Varuna
today: An Oasis in a desert of development. Photo Peter Cummins
In fact, though, the ‘old lady’ is having a
‘face-lift’ and a ‘plumbing job’ and massive water-treatment plants
are either on-line or soon will be. A concerted drive is being undertaken to clean up the
beaches and there is much more environmental awareness at City Hall, in the private sector
- especially the hoteliers and the Chambers of Commerce - many concerned organizations
like Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya and the citizenry as a whole.
A top-level Pattaya delegation, led by "Pattaya Mail"
publisher Peter Malhotra, has just returned from a "Pattaya Promotion" visit to
several cities of Australia and New Zealand. It was a mission to spread the word of a
re-vitalized, cleaner city with an emphasis on water sports and the marine sector.
Apparently, "it worked!"
Royal Varuna founder Walter Meyer recently hosted and sponsored the
annual meeting of Royal Varuna Flag Commodores and the mood was most optimistic. Eleven of
the twenty-one men who have guided the Club since 1957 met and reviewed the four decades
of change and noted with some satisfaction the role that Royal Varuna has played,
especially on the international yachting circuit, in promoting Pattaya.
And, as we round the windward mark into the New Millennium - with or without the Y2K
syndrome - there will be a run to A CLEAN Pattaya shore and a cold beer waiting at the
haven called The Royal Varuna Yacht Club.
Polarities in organizational life (do
we need two heads)
by Richard Townsend, Corporate training
Managerial vs. Leadership challenges
Management is about - Control: The need to keep a check on
everybody, drawing up well-defined competence requirements and using "position
authority".
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Freedom: Seeking to liberate the
creativity and initiative of individuals by using a participative and flexible approach
and sharing authority.
Management is about - Survival: Dealing with short term
operational necessities and controlling costs.
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Growth: Identifying new and possibly
risky ventures that could be the basis for future income (and perhaps losses).
Management is about - Managing: Instructing, allocating,
delegating and organizing.
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Leading: Inspiring, helping,
encouraging teamwork, coaching, directing, supporting and aligning.
Management is about - Administrating: Overseeing activities,
processes and individual task performance, exercising control and supervision.
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Planning: Looking for process
improvement and preparing for change, agreeing goals and empowering followers.
Management is about - Competition: Seeking the winning edge,
overcoming those in the way.
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Collaboration: Showing love and
respect for individuals and seeking win-win solutions.
Management is about - Order & consistency: Maintenance of
structure, systems and tradition, "the status quo".
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Creating change: Vision, direction and
values and demolition of "the way we’ve always done it".
Management is about - Doing things right: Organizing, and
setting the rules.
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Doing the right things: Developing
trust and risk taking.
Management is about - Inputs: Amount, type and quality of
resources used.
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Outputs: Level and volume of satisfied
customers.
Management is about - Managing things: Operations focussed,
using technical expertise.
Versus
Leadership, which is about - Leading people: Charisma, power, human
relations & communication skills, inspiration, motivation.
With the conflicting nature of these requirements, how do we prepare
managers deal with these apparently opposing roles?
Worth a thought!
International Communication towards
Peace and Cooperation
Golbal Society opens an Alternative
Path
by Haruko
Iwashiro and Tonomi Takada, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima Japan - Global Society, an international non-profit
organization working towards peace and development, announced its first Executive Board
with the participation of scholars and young intellectuals from around the world on June
19, 1999.
Professor Shuichi Nakayama and Professor Tatsuo Kinbara of Hiroshima
University have been selected as the President and Vice-President respectively. Hilarius
Costa, a Bangladeshi national and the founder of Global Society, has become the first
Secretary General.
In addition, Masaki Morita, Daniel A. Tefera and Is-Haka Mikwawa of
Hiroshima University, Prof. Dhrubha Kumar of Tribhuvan University, Nepal, Prof.
Khirulmaini Bin Osman Salleh from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, Prof. Lalliana
Mualchin from the United States, Khandakar M. Shariful Islam, Lecturer at the City
University of Hong Kong, Rudiger Kuhr, Lecturer from the University of Osnabruck Germany,
Donald F. Kilburg, Ph.D. candidate at DePaul University, Chicago USA, and Dr. Raisel
Selvaraj of Massey University, Auckland Campus, have all become members of the Executive
Board of Global Society.
"Global Society aims to contribute to intentional understanding,
cooperation and peace through raising consciousness in socio-cultural, educational,
economic, environmental and political development issues," said Prof. Nakayama, the
first President of Global Society. "It is very important to choose the younger
generation of intellectuals as the target group, for they will be the leaders of the 21st
century. I believe this group has a stronger desire to work in reducing the gap between
the haves and the have nots," he added.
"Global Society has the highest respect for each and every
culture, race and religion throughout the world. The Society is open to anybody who wishes
to contribute to this cause," commented Mr. Costa, the founder and Secretary General
of Global Society.
For more information on Global Society, please fax: (81-824) 24-6904, or email [email protected]~u.ac.jp.
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