PHUKETWAN is funding a trip by journalist Chutima Sidasathian to ITB Berlin next week, and in doing so becomes the first Phuket English-language media organisation to independently pay for a media visit to the world's most important travel fair.
Having pioneered the concept of Phuket media travelling with a Phuket delegation on a Phuket road show to Australia last year, Khun Chutima, one of Phuket's most awarded journalists, will be delivering insights from Europe to Phuketwan readers on a daily basis.
It's too early to speculate about what she will find and report, but with the baht riding high and potential European travellers now not so prepared to fly long-haul, ITB Berlin will provide some important indicators.
Phuketwan has made Tourism News one of its priorities since the innovative site was launched in January, 2008. What continues to differentiate Phuketwan's journalism from other sources on Phuket is the preparedness to dip into our own funds to cover the issues that need to be covered, and at the same time to also tap our own independent perspectives.
Phuketwan's aim is to improve Phuket, not to make money.
We're unlikely to provide you with a rewrite of a handout that tells you who is going on the trip and what they are likely to be doing.
At Phuketwan we continue to prefer to go to see for ourselves, rather than accepting promotional material and reporting it under a different byline as fact.
So for those who really want to know what is happening at ITB Berlin, concentrate on the viewpoint that is consistently looking at the world from a Phuket perspective: Phuketwan.
Watch for Chutima Sidasathian's daily reports for Phuket from Berlin next week. She will be in Berlin well before the 60 members of the formal Phuket contingent arrive.
The big show runs from March 9 to March 13.
Khun Chutima will continue to file from Europe for a week after the Berlin event.
With Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi all aiming to impress, she will be seeking clues as to how to attract more international tourists as she goes on from Berlin to visit Italy and France.
Having pioneered the concept of Phuket media travelling with a Phuket delegation on a Phuket road show to Australia last year, Khun Chutima, one of Phuket's most awarded journalists, will be delivering insights from Europe to Phuketwan readers on a daily basis.
It's too early to speculate about what she will find and report, but with the baht riding high and potential European travellers now not so prepared to fly long-haul, ITB Berlin will provide some important indicators.
Phuketwan has made Tourism News one of its priorities since the innovative site was launched in January, 2008. What continues to differentiate Phuketwan's journalism from other sources on Phuket is the preparedness to dip into our own funds to cover the issues that need to be covered, and at the same time to also tap our own independent perspectives.
Phuketwan's aim is to improve Phuket, not to make money.
We're unlikely to provide you with a rewrite of a handout that tells you who is going on the trip and what they are likely to be doing.
At Phuketwan we continue to prefer to go to see for ourselves, rather than accepting promotional material and reporting it under a different byline as fact.
So for those who really want to know what is happening at ITB Berlin, concentrate on the viewpoint that is consistently looking at the world from a Phuket perspective: Phuketwan.
Watch for Chutima Sidasathian's daily reports for Phuket from Berlin next week. She will be in Berlin well before the 60 members of the formal Phuket contingent arrive.
The big show runs from March 9 to March 13.
Khun Chutima will continue to file from Europe for a week after the Berlin event.
With Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi all aiming to impress, she will be seeking clues as to how to attract more international tourists as she goes on from Berlin to visit Italy and France.
Maybe I will pay some friends in Berlin to stage an anti tourism in Phuket rally because of powerful scamster syndicates, demonstration on the premises. With some of my girls get naked to show rip offs will rip you off and the boys bleeding with fake blood for showing the danger of being jumped and stabbed by mobs. Should make some news.
Posted by Lena on March 2, 2011 20:45
Editor Comment:
Please try to tweet Charlie Sheen. Has he been to Phuket? If he has been to Phuket, does he remember? Failing that, try Prince Andrew.