THAI HOTEL ASSOCIATION

Southern Chapter

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To protect and promote the environment

To conduct and promote training programs and seminars in connection with the hotel business

To settle disputes in business between fellow members, or between members and the public

To offer advice to, and co-operate with, other organisations in both the public and private sectors

To promote our destinations domestically and internationally

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Green Fair.

The Thai Hotels Association (THA), headed by Wichit Na Ranong of Phuket's Pearl Hotel Group, has the right idea -- sell environmental conservation/eco-tourism as a cost-saving device and you'll create an instant incentive for business people. Not only will they save immediate money while protecting the country's greatest asset -- its natural environment -- they'll also be investing in the future of the tourism industry.

To get this point across, the THA, along with the Metropolitan Waterworks, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Phuket Marine Biological Centre, have recently held a series of environmental seminars across the country. Discussions have covered topics ranging from the use of recyclable and washable products in hotel guestrooms (as opposed to non-biodegradable plastic) to protecting fragile coral reefs.

We hope the hotel association's initiative will bear fruit and that more such seminars and exhibits will soon be held for all tourism-related businesses. The need to preserve Phuket's environment both immediately and in the long term is an idea whose time has come.

Sponsored by T.H.A.S.C.
Primary School Environmental Education Workshop, Phuket

The first of a very important series of environmental education teacher training workshops for Primary School teachers from Phuket was help at the Novotel Resort Phuket from 26-28 May, 1997. The workshops aim to show teachers how to write environmental education teaching materials, which not only teach young children relevant knowledge and skills about the environment, but which also develop the spiritual qualities, attitudes and global principles, which will develop in their hearts a sincere love for the environment, so that as the children grow up, they will want to care for the environment.

The workshop was sponsored entirely by the Thai Hotel Association (Southern Chapter) because it recognises that environmental education is the most effective long-term solution to environmental degradation. The originator of the project was Peter McAlpine, the Training Manager of The Peninsula Bangkok, who has won several international awards for environmental education. He was assisted by trainers from the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion in Bangkok

The 30 primary School teachers, who amended this workshop responded very positively to the challenge of being pioneers in writing teaching materials, which lay a heavy emphasis on the development of qualities and attitudes in children. Before the second workshop at the end of August, the teachers will help each other to create environmental education teaching materials, which will eventually be shared with Primary Schools around Thailand. The teachers will meet again at the second workshop to consolidate on their progress, and prepare to train other teachers from the south of Thailand in the same way. Succeeding workshops will train more teachers from the south and then from other regions, and increase the amount of teaching material available to all Primary Schools in the country.