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Phuket rain leads visitors to the home expo

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Time of sausage: queue of visitors until sausages free sample at the expo. PHUKET: Heavy rains on Phuket, this week has provided a boost practical the inaugural Andaman resort home expo, which attracted nearly 3,000 visitors on the day of the opening event?s Thursday.

The event, a cost of 3 million baht on stage, is open from 11 to 21 to HomeWorks on the road to bypass until Sunday.

The expo marks the early industry of the grand hotel of time six clubs and associations have combined their efforts to present such an event, said Vasan Tongsanga, President of the Food & Beverage Managers Club (Andaman region).

The other clubs involved are Phuket Spa Association, Chief of the Phuket Association, maintenance spare management Club, head of Engineering and Phuket Phuket Artisans Club.

?In the past, each of us organized separately our own activities. But this time, with the support of the Centre for development of the skills of Phuket and the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the six clubs in the industry are similarly able to stage a show United, ?, said Mr. Vasan.

There are more than 90 booths at the show, highlighting hospitality goods ranging from F & B products such as drinks, ice cream, bread and sausages of kitchen utensils to fully integrated systems of air conditioning.

Exhibitors ran the range of suppliers on a large scale to local companies.

Onuma Choiychana, a sales executive at BM Quality Food Co Ltd, a provider of sausage of German style based in Pathum Thani, seeks to increase awareness of the brand.

?We have been supplying beef, chicken and pork sausages to more than 100 hotels of four and five stars in Phuket for about seven years, and other in Phang Nga and Krabi, ?, she explained.

?Being a part of this exhibition help us to raise awareness of brand, Phuket residents since our products are not sold individually elsewhere other than the Chalong Villa market, ?, added Ms. Onuma.

Also seeks to stimulate the market exposure is Aeknatchara Suwanno, President of daily sunshine (Thailand) Co. Ltd., a provider of local hotel based in Chalong.

?We have been providing juice, like orange, pineapple and mango, for six years and fruity gelato ice cream for two years at our 150 customers, who are mainly hotels, but at this event, our goals is just to make our better brand awareness with the public, ?, he said.

To entertain the public, and for the staff of the hotel to demonstrate their skills, competencies and 70 skills competitions are held throughout the show, with 300,000 baht in prize money to win.

The competitions are barman and wine butler contest, a competition of kitchen and competition of sculpture on ice, floral arrangement, napkin folding, cures and engineering skills.

The itinerary for this afternoon (August 27) is:

? 11-14: Thai cooking competition
? 13-17: fruits of sea Somtam contest from cooking
? 13-18: the air conditioner technician skills competition
? 13-18: electronics technician skills competition
? 15-18: competition foot spa
? 18-21: ?Flair? bartender contest
? 18-21: ice-carving contest

The calendar of events for Sunday (August 28) is:

? 11-14: the fruit of Andaman Sea and European-style cooking competition
? 16-20: ice-carving contest
? 16 to 19: bartender contest
? 19-21: the closing ceremony

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Patong hospital, 40 evacuated patients flood

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PHUKET: Flooding in the basement to doctors forced to Patong hospital y to evacuate approximately 40 patients as precautionary measure, transfer to facilities elsewhere in Phuket.

?Some of them were transferred to the Hospital of Vachira Phuket [at Phuket], while others were dismissed early so they could go home, said ? Hospital Director Dr. Phumin Silaphan.

Heavy rains on Thursday saw flood waters spill over from the hospital?s parking in the basement of the main building.

?The generator room was flooded water more than a metre high. Now, he dropped half a metre. We are pumping water, but it is planned to take some time, ? Dr. Phumin said late yesterday.

The hospital has temporarily stopped accepting hospitalized patients.

?We have also shut down our operation theatre, x-ray room and precautionary measure delivery room, because without the generator, we have no power in the electricity supply primary goes offline, ?, said Dr. Phumin.

?If rain slows, we expect to be fully operational no later than Monday, ?, he added.

Department of prevention of disasters and mitigation (DDPM) Phuket head San Jantharawong, said that although floodwaters through Phuket were back, its officers were still monitoring landslide on the slopes and areas of risk known Patong, Kamala, Kathu.

?If the hard rain continues, it can cause landslides, ?, he said.

Chief San urged people to take into account the weather warning issued by the meteorological service, which provides heavy rains continue today.

The DDPM-Phuket Office received many reports of flooding.

?The worst affected areas appear to Chalong, Thepkasattri, Kamala and Patong, ?, he said.

In response, the DDPM-Phuket plans across the province a flood and landslide risk area, said Chief San.

?We ordered rescue teams to all local authority is waiting, ready to respond to the calls of emergency in their fields, ?, he said.

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Phuket retail: staff of productivity, not piracy, the key to success

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PHUKET: Phuket has experienced a growth unprecedented in all levels of the sector retail over the past two decades, but without any real improvement to customer service ?, including in terms of knowledge and skills in foreign languages.

Rapid improvement of these areas is necessary if the island is to capitalize on its benefits and to emerge as a regional centre of retail by 2015, when the terms of the Charter of the Economic Community (AEC) ASEAN to take effect.

The introduction of the Charter of the AEC 2015 is being announced as the advent of a set of marking new era of the economy for the block of Southeast Asia. Throughout the region, analysts have repeated their warnings that increased competition between the economies of 10 members will open the door to more competitive organisms of substantial profits.

Phuket is well placed to take advantage of the post-2015 market, and amateurs of tourism are already the title ?ASEAN Hub? of tourism on the island, which currently has more than 43,000 rooms in accommodation establishments ? not to mention thousands of unregistered more homes.

Although many think that the hosting market is saturated, more units are underway. According to research by C9 Hotelworks, single Patong has more than 4 200 new classrooms set to open by the end of 2014.

Go to Phuket has also never been easier, with the emerging island as Thailand?s second ?regional hub? through the growth of the number of direct flights and low cost carriers such as AirAsia available through Southeast Asia.

Particular importance is the Chinese market, which has recently caught the Australia as the main source of tourists in Phuket. And this market shows no sign of slowing down.

There are now 50 direct scheduled and Charter flights per month in Phuket, from mainland China and the four sites than visits to sell on the Internet in China reported an increase of 37 per cent of revenues from 2009 to 2010.

Consumers warned of Chinese tourists are also likely to increase. Many are now at the mercy of unscrupulous tour operators that their bus methodically gem shops, illegal dealers in drugs such as local and other turtle penis such ?attractions? in the hope of raking in sales commissions.

But by 2015, it is likely that there will be growing Chinese market segments who prefer Armani, Arpege and Andara.

Just as it can with housing, Phuket is able to boast a wide variety of shops, with something for every tourist options regardless of spending power.

But when it comes to the point of sale, that want visitors is good product knowledge, practical language skills and courtesy ? not harassment by immigration status doubtful sidewalk touts or if common vacant eyes now behind the points of sale counters throughout the island.

Serious Phuket retailers might want to take inventory of the productivity of the staff, of attitudes and skills. Change is possible. Some say that Bangkok and Singapore are the evidence of it.

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