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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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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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Hotels seek govt ready to rebuild

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Hoteliers warned that Koh Samui could lose other destinations of the island in the region in the next tourist season top unless hotels and tourist businesses damaged by severe floods of last month were immediately rebuilt.

Mr. Ruangnam Jaikwang, President of the coast’s southern region Hotel Association, said that it could mean a loss of revenue of Bt10 billion in tourism of the island.

However, despite the massive floods, the association has estimated more than Bt400 billion, Samui celebrated on 13-15 April Songkran holiday with lots of fun and festivities as it did in previous years.

Days of heavy rain on the last week of March have dumped tons of water on the island, causing untold damage and inconvenience to residents and guests.

Approximately 13 000 tourists were stranded in Samui at the flood, as the ferry services and airlines have been suspended for days.

The tourism industry of the island came under the disaster. Mr. Ruangnam said that of the thousands of foreign tourists expected to visit the island this month above and over the next few months had cancelled hotel and flight reservations.

Mr. Ruangnam said that damage to the hotel buildings and facilities around the island could reach Bt100 million.

But the greatest damage to the local hotel industry, he added, was the flood of cancellations of room following the disaster.

Traditionally, he said, Samui Hotels are full during Songkran week.

Most of these visitors are usually inhabitants of various regions of the country trying to escape the heat in the position to the beaches of the island.

Although the tourists is still come in droves during Songkran week, hotels were not as complete as that before, said the President of the hotel association.

The urgent task in hand now, Mr. Ruangnam said, is to rebuild the infrastructure in order to prepare the island for the next high tourism season and damaged hotels.

Most of these hotels, he said, would need loans from the Government for their reconstruction.

Without the support of the Government, he should be hotels and Resorts more time to rebuild. And reconstruction delayed, he said, could discourage tourists to return.

If things do return to the normal soon, chances are most of these tourists who had planned to spend their holiday in Samui would go elsewhere, as the Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia.

Although the island had fewer than before tourists during Songkran, festivities was not lessened, said Bhanu Woramitra, Director of the office of Tourism Authority of Thailand in the province of Suratthani.

Thousands of people, including foreigners, participated in the frenzied splashing water.

Mayor Ramnet Jaikwang led the celebration presiding rituals carried out water on the elderly folk. He also joined a parade of Songkran which included Miss Songkran island.

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