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Mayor to recruit, train tourist guides

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First resort will of identity-leisure destination of Thailand be built in the mountains near the beach of Chaweng to the cost of Bt12 billion.

A ground breaking ceremony was held recently to signal the beginning of the construction of the first phase of the project, which is owned by the Group of the Club Koh Samui. The planned resort, to be called Club Koh Samui, will be the largest resort project ever built in the country, said Finn Hyttel, Club Koh Samui group, Director-General. It “will be an integrated resort that revolves around a large sports and recreation complex in the mountains above Chaweng Beach,” the company said in a press release.

Mr. Hyttel said “Club Koh Samui will change the face of Koh Samui tourism and enable the island to reach its full potential.” Samui, he added, “” desperately need a point of reference and Club Koh Samui tourist attraction is fulfilling this need and be a generator of authorisation and signature for the whole of the island application. “”

While the Thailand and Koh Samui are destinations of success in their own right, Koh Samui Club will have the necessary range of drivers of tourism and attractions to become a destination tourism world all on its own, press release of the company, said.

“As tourist attraction of Samui signature and only resort, Koh Samui Club will be a sound investment vehicle and a choice of vacation of life exciting.” The overall concept combines fantasy, luxury and many opportunities for entertainment and has already proved successful in other sites around the world as the Club La Santa on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. »

As a centre of destination resorts, the company said, “it generate significant economic benefits to Koh Samui and the Thailand and create substantial employment and economic benefits, attract more regional and international visitors, increase tourism revenues and boost the country’s tourism industry as a whole.”.

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Hotels to freeze new developments in Samui

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International hotel chains that was eager to arrive at, or expand their presence in Samui are having doubts because the island limited airlift capabilities.

Mr. Seni Phuwasethaoworn, head of the Office of the Council of tourism of the Thailand suratthani, said the combined number of flights to Samui from Bangkok Airways and Thai Airways 36 per day. These flights were only 2 000 to 3 000 passengers per day.

To fill the current number of hotel on the island, the required total airline seat capacity would be 4 000 to 5 000 a day, said Mr. Seni.

Air capacity at height, hotels have frozen or delayed their expansion plans.  Mr. Seni said that before talking about other expansion plans, they wanted assurance from the Government that something would on the airport and the airlines limited capacity.

He said potential Samui as an international tourism destination remains high. The current inventory of 17,000 rooms is not enough to meet the projected growth in tourism on the island for him.

Four and five-star hotel chains had been eager to add more rooms on the island. But if there is not enough flights to service tourists, more expansions hotel would be unworkable, he added.
He said that 80% of foreign tourists come to the island by air, with only 20% of the ferry. The solution, he said, is for the Government to build a second airport or convince Bangkok Airways and Thai Airways to add more flights.

Samui hotel owners and other stakeholders of the tourism industry, said, planned to take the problem at the national level after the elections of July 3. Mr. Seni that they would take the issue with the new Prime Minister, to put an end to the current uncertainty in the tourism industry of the island. He said that travel operators could not launch aggressive marketing plans, because they were not certain that they have seats on the airline that they should be expected when the time comes. -CHAT ANUPAN

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Energy project allows the Cabinet Bt3.9b Samui

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54 km of submarine cable to run from Surat to the island- Samui City Council recently approved a revised draft to be able to avoid a crisis of possible power on the island.

The power of Bt321 million project includes the installation of underground cables and transmission line 31 kilometres linking General long Lamai Maenam.
These General cables will be supported by poles of concrete and the 22-metre steel beams. Fourteen years in the 18-member Council voted for the project proposed by the authority of electricity Provincial (PEA).

If it is approved by the Governor of Suratthani, work on the project could begin in early 2011.The peas has proposed the project in 2005. But it immediately experienced a strong opposition of the local tourism stakeholders who were concerned the presence of the imposing concrete poles along the road from Ban Phanga through Hua Thanon, Lamai, Chaweng and Maenam could affect the horizon landscape and laidback tropical island.

But a meeting with local officials, business and civic leaders months men Mr. Noppong Vichaidit, head of the Department of the provincial authority of electricity, region 2, operation network warned that without a new source of energy Samui, in the prospect of a severe crisis of authority is particular during the tourist high season due to the increase in demand.

During the meeting, held in municipality of Koh Samui, Mr. Noppong, said the current demand of power was at a record level.

With the supply is falling below demand, power outages and rationing would soon be inevitable, he said.

The pea official, said the energy of Samui had been dating regularly with the growth of tourism.

“We are really concerned that demand for electrical energy in December will be too high and that we cannot treat”, he said. “We can only now is back up and to reduce unnecessary consumption of energy.”

A looming power crisis prompted Samui Mayor Ramnet Jaikwang to give the second plant planned in Maenam project seriously.

Many people objected to the before project because of his need to install 22 metres from the poles to connect the lines of the first plant of Ban Phanga for the new power of Maenam. However, the Mayor, was convinced that the new plant was the only viable solution to the problem of power.

Some members of the municipal Council who proposed instead of overhead, the new line linking Ban Phanga and Maenam should be brought under the sea to avoid the towering concrete yesores.

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