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Chaine des Rotisseurs’s at Amari Watergate
Pierre
Andre Pelletier (right), General Manager of the Amari Watergate Hotel and
David Cumming, (left) Executive Assistant Manager (F&B), recently
welcomed fellow members of the Bangkok chapter of Chaine des Rotisseurs led
by Karl Buhr, Commandeur/Chanceiler National (4th
right back row) for the “Dinner with a Difference” hosted by Executive
Chef Peter Kraserer (1st right second
row) in the main kitchen of the Amari Watergate Hotel.
Thai tourists to spend up Bt 8.6 billion in Hong Kong this year
The number of Thai tourists in Hong Kong is expected to
grow by 24 percent this year and it is expected that they will spend up to
Bt8.6 billion on the business island, according to the Kasikorn Research
Centre (KRC).
The Bangkok-based research house said that Hong Kong has
been a renowned haven for foreign tourists and shoppers for a long time,
with the potential growing over the past five years. In 2004, the KRC said,
Thai tourists spent up to Bt 6.84 billion on the business island.
The leading think tank projected that the number of Thai
tourist arrivals in Hong Kong would grow 24 percent on top of last year, or
nearly 300,000 by the end of this year, thanks to a new major tourist
attraction there - Hong Kong Disneyland, which was officially opened
recently.
In the second half of this year alone, KRC estimated that
the number of Thai tourists in Hong Kong could reach 158,000, a 20 percent
increase from the same period last year. (TNA)
Can WET fix the water problems?
With the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand in the grip of
water shortages in one way or another, one group, Water Engineered
Technologies (WET), say they have more than one answer to the problems being
experienced by local industries.
 Keith
Wilson
Instead of the government’s drill more wells and run
pipes from one river to another, WET say that much of the shortages can be
solved using technologies already in existence, without resorting to
expensive desalination systems. When you find that WET supply drinking water
to 58 militaries all over the world, as well as NATO and the UN, then
perhaps they do have the necessary expertise.
According to the managing director of WET (Thailand),
Keith Wilson, since the company is actually a consortium of four
organizations involved in the water business, he believes they have the
answer to all the differing problems.
At the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand (BCCT)
networking evening, Keith suggested that instead of looking for “new”
supplies of water, the answer for the Eastern Seaboard probably was more in
efficient use of the water we already have. “How much rain water was
wasted yesterday?” Keith pointed out. “Water management is the key,”
he said. This includes recycling waste water into factory cooling systems
and catching and storing existing downpours, to be used when needed.
The WET consortium just may have the answer to our water problems, so
don’t be surprised if Keith comes knocking on your factory door one of
these dry days! If you don’t want to wait, you can contact WET on 038 411
530.
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