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Police rewarded for speeding in 3rd Pattaya International Bed Race

The police set up an official escort.

Phasakorn Channgam

Police were the ones doing the speeding when teams from two area agencies won half the top prizes at the 3rd Pattaya International Bed Race.

The Pattaya Police Station team won the Jan. 30 race, organized for charity by the Rotary Club of Pattaya, while the local Department of Special Investigations office took the “most beautiful bed” award.

Organizers spiced up this year’s bedroom activities by having the 28 teams parade through South Pattaya in a loop along Beach and Second roads before the starting alarm went off. Then, at 6 p.m., the scramble of slumberers rolled from Central Festival Pattaya Beach to Walking Street.

The Seashell Restaurant and Hard Rock Hotel finished behind the cops in the overall race. In other categories, the “most popular” bed prize went to the Pattaya Expats Club and the team from Boyz Town won the “most creative” award. Finally, the “Booby Prize” for the last place finish went to Russian travel agent Tez Tour.

Liquid refreshments along the course are not against the rules, so might as well have a few along the way.

Hard Rockers dress for the occasion.

Tez Tour receives the “Booby Prize” and lots of applause for finishing last.

The Central Festival team features pretty maidens.

Makro celebrates with a Chinese New Year theme.

Pattaya Police receive the mayor’s trophy for winning 1st place in the speed category.

Boyz Town goes 50s.


Austrian Airlines briefs travel agents on fare promotions

Austrian Airlines sales director, Thanakorn Khunpong,
introduces agents to the airline’s “Saen Kum” program.

Manoon Makpol

Executives from Austrian Airlines briefed about 20 travel agents on new fare promotions and booking systems at a Jan. 27 seminar at Pattaya’s Holiday Inn hotel.

Sales director Thanakorn Khunpong introduced the agents to the airline’s “Saen Kum” program, which currently promotes one-way flights from Bangkok to Germany, Canada and the United States. He explained that agents could now go online and compare Austrian fares with other airlines on the same routes.

The airline also now lets agents verify their reservations online and check prices in real time. Thanakorn said the new fares, which took effect Feb. 1, are attractive to travelers and that the airline is working with its agents to increase business for everyone.


Bangkok hotels on the decline

Sirima Eamtako,
TTG Asia

Bangkok hotel occupancy and room rates dropped to their lowest levels in history last year, according to the Thai Hotels Association (THA).

THA president Prakit Chinamourphong cited Horwath International’s Regional Outlook report, which said that Bangkok hotels ran at an average occupancy rate (AOR) of 53 percent and average daily rate (ADR) of US$93 last year, down from 54 percent and US$91 in 2009.

“These are the lowest levels ever experienced,” he said.

Other South-east Asian cities beat Bangkok in the rankings, according to the report.

Last year, Manila’s AOR was 72 percent and its ARR was US$113, Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City’s was 64 percent and US$126, Singapore’s was 83 percent and US$198, Kuala Lumpur’s was 68 percent and US$111, while Jakarta’s was 68 percent and US$79.

Prakit said Bangkok hotel rates had always been among the top three in the region before the multiple crises over the last few years.

Oversupply and a burgeoning number of non-licensed hotels further aggravated the situation, he added.


HEADLINES [click on headline to view story]

Police rewarded for speeding in 3rd Pattaya International Bed Race

Austrian Airlines briefs travel agents on fare promotions

Bangkok hotels on the decline

 

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