BLOG#3 AWESOME TRIP!!

FOUNTAIN TREE RESORT KHAO YAI

      Fountain Tree Resort & Cowboy Adventure World. Located on over 400 rai ready to welcome all of you. You can feel the pure nature. Or you can stay in the zone cowboy. Ready to invent your urban cowboy. And you have to soak the atmosphere was pretty good cowboy town. The resort has adventure a lot more than 12 types, including ATV Go-Kart, archery, paintball field gun Ancient Gun Base Water Adventure Water Challenge Super Ball Water sport bikes, water bikes mountain Nano Bike and gaming zone. Will make your holiday fascinating!

      The resort has adventure a lot more than 12 types, including ATV Go-Kart, archery, paintball field gun Ancient Gun Base Water Adventure Water Challenge Super Ball Water sport bikes, water bikes mountain Nano Bike and gaming zone.

      The Club offer safe, fun and adventure Activities for adults and kid alike. If you're looking for a fun day out for yourself, yourfriends or your family. With our staffs advice you can.

• Activity price 150THB per person. Child & adult are the same price.
• Service Car 50THB per person

Acitivity time:

• weekend 8.00am. - 6.00pm.
• weekday 9.00am. - 6.00pm.

      Coming from Bangkok, where the pollution is a daily menace, it was wonderful to step off and breath srisp, fresh air while taking in the beauty of the unspoiled Thai countryside. It's also only about two and a half hours out of Bangkok, so it's not too far.

BLOG#2 Tourism trend in 2025 and beyond

      

      During 2013, TIA is leading a project to create Tourism 2025, a national tourism framework.

We are working with both the private sector and public sector to develop this inspirational, challenging and measurable framework that will unite and inspire the industry to adapt and succeed.

      It will provide a clear sense of long-term direction, with a firm focus on growth, value, increased private sector investment, improved sector productivity and public sector support, all underpinning a sustainable superior visitor experience.

Implementing Tourism 2025

      We are now focused on creating and obtaining industry endorsement for the actions that will bring Tourism 2025 to life. The actions we endorse must be pragmatic, affordable and valuable.

We recognise that we are operating in a fast-changing global and domestic tourism environment. The actions will have a short focus - one to three years - with scope for all tourism industry players, from big corporate to SMEs, 

to play their part.

We are looking to identify:

• actions that are already underway and/or can be done quickly
• actions that are significant enough to treat as projects that need to be initiated
• high level strategic plans that will require broad industry endorsement

Tourism Futures International is a research-oriented company specialising in the future of aviation, travel and tourism. The company's philosophy is that good strategic intelligence underpins good strategy. We help our clients understand the business environment, plan for the future and stay ahead in a constantly changing world.

Holidays of the future: A glimpse at how tourists might travel in 2030

Holidays could be going up in the world, literally. 

      By 2030, families could be boarding giant airships that contain spacious apartments and hover above popular destinations. 

      Like cruise ships in the sky, the 'zero-impact' floating holiday resorts would have bars and restaurants on board and could glean energy from the surrounding natural elements to power them from resort to resort. A special airship garden would even provide fresh fruit for the rooms.

      Thomson Holidays commissioned trend forecaster The Future Laboratory to produce the Sustainable Holiday Futures report, a detailed guide to how we might travel in 20 years' time.

      Like Tom Hanks in hit film The Terminal, we could also soon be flying to the airport for a holiday at the, erm, airport. 

      The report suggests that some of the world's largest airports could become destinations in their own right with all the entertainment and accommodation of a small town available in one 'aeroville' setting.

And what might a hotel room in 2030 look like? Well, there would be innovative energy-saving features galore. 

      Bathrooms would use water from the washbasin and the shower for flushing the toilet and high-tech windows would allow guests to block out the sun's glare, reducing the need for both curtains and air conditioning. 

Lights would be powered by wind and solar energy and a heat-activated multi-touchscreen could be used to communicate with everything from energy use to resort activities open for discussion.

      There's good news for those worried about their carbon footprint too. Second-generation bio-fuels created from algae and blended with jet fuel could be potent enough to power holiday jets without causing excessive harmful emissions.

      Welcome to the future: Hotel guests could find such high-tech gadgetry as a communications board and a health check bathroom mirror as standard in rooms.

   

BLOG#1 World Tourism Organization (WTO)

World Tourism Organization (WTO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations and leading international organization in the field of tourism. The main task of the WTO is to promote sustainable tourism development with special emphasis on developing countries.

Benefits for members:

- Access to research studies, strategic and statistical information on world tourism.

- Interaction with business decision-making leaders and statesmen

- Partnership in critical projects and other business opportunities

- Exchanging experiences with other members

- Training

There are 154 WTO member countries, seven territories and more than 400 partners (affiliated members).

Structure:

General Assembly - that is the supreme authority of the WTO. Held every 2 years to adopt budget and work program and to discuss and adopt decisions on matters of fundamental importance for the tourism sector. Every fourth year a Secretary General is elected. In the General Assembly members and associate members can vote, while partners are only observers.

Regional committees - they are six in number: Africa, America, East Asia and Pacific, Europe, Middle East and South Asia. Committees meet at least annually and include the full and associate members while partners have observer status.

The Secretariat is headed by Secretary General Taleb Rifai, SOT (Jordan) and is responsible for fulfilling the program objectives. The official languages ​​of the WTO are English, Spanish, Arabic, French and Russian.

Executive Council of WTO - operational governing body composed of 31 members for a term of 4 years. Half of its composition is renewed each General Assembly. The Executive Board shall meet at least twice a year, they are guided by a President and two Vice-Presidents.

Subsidiary bodies to the Executive Board committees.

Committees - advise management and program alarm in the following areas: budget and finance, statistics, marketing, combating poverty.

The Code’s 10 principles amply cover the economic, social, cultural and environmental components of travel and tourism:

Article 1: Tourism's contribution to mutual understanding and respect between peoples and societies

Article 2: Tourism as a vehicle for individual and collective fulfillment

Article 3: Tourism, a factor of sustainable development

Article 4: Tourism, a user of the cultural heritage of mankind and contributor to its enhancement

Article 5: Tourism, a beneficial activity for host countries and communities

Article 6: Obligations of stakeholders in tourism development

Article 7: Right to tourism

Article 8: Liberty of tourist movements

Article 9: Rights of the workers and entrepreneurs in the tourism industry

Article 10: Implementation of the principles of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) was established in 1960 by the Royal Thai Government to be specifically responsible for tourism promotion. In 1965, TAT opened its first overseas office in New York. Since then, TAT has established 21 offices in different parts of the world including our Los Angeles office.

Seven categories under the theme “Seven Amazing Wonders”

• Thainess: The art of Thai living, traditional Thai hospitality, lifestyles and cultural tourism products

• Treasure: Heritage and history, world heritage sites, historical attractions, temples and museums

• Beaches: Thailand popular beach resort destinations

• Nature: National parks, soft adventure and ecotourism products

• Health and Wellness: Medical tourism, spa and health resorts

• Trends: Boutique hotels, shopping centers, dining and night life

• Festivals: International and Thai festivals and events

       

       In my opinion, tourism is advantageous in the creation of jobs, growth of the economy and improvement of the living standards of the locals. The tourism industry also leads to the development of the local crafts industry as well as exploitation of various resources.