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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More hotels, not enough tourists

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A recent study has expressed concerns about the future of Koh Samui as a tourist destination, as the supply of hotels on the island begins to exceed the arriving request.

e-Travel Blackboard, an Australian online publication, said “Samui hotel market update 2010,” a study by the firm of C9 Hotelworks blamed Koh Samui boom in the construction of four years as well as limited to air transport for the current situation of the island.

“The simple problem is that you can not stay there if you can not get there,” C9 Hotelworks Management Director Bill Barnett has been cited in the report said. The study says the development of the private sector in the hotel sector in Samui climbed well in advance of improving transport infrastructure, which has caused the market into a tailspin.

The report, which collected the opinions of resort owners and managers of the hotel, cited the inability of the island to large aircraft and the lack of carriers of budget as reasons why potential tourism of Koh Samui is actually being capped.

“As new markets emerge discount carriers and Charter flights are generators of demand,”Barnett said in the report.”"

“The new international airport on the island of tourist emerging from Lombok in Indonesia near Bali, who seem willing to leapfrog growth through capacity ashore body large Boeing 747 and Airbus planes, is an example of a concurrent regional destinations”, said the Director General of the Office of the Council.

The news is not all grouchy however, with the introduction of many luxury properties on the island, boosting trading before Outlook, he said.

He added that expectations for 2011 seek to focus on the coming of the debate of the age and increasing international brands can induce sustainable demand.

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