http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2009/09/ranong-tinkers-with-its-springs/ FIRST with the FACTS on Thailand and Mekong Region TRAVEL Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2009/09/ranong-tinkers-with-its-springs/comment-page-1/#comment-554 charubun pananon Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:27:15 +0000 http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/?p=7920#comment-554 I hope people in the travel industry realise that there are many Thai familiar with hot spring facilities in foreign countries, especially the hot springs in Japan which are quite famous among us. Since Ranong would like to be a hot spring town, we must use Japan as the model. We should distribute hot spring water through taps to bathrooms in hotels and resorts. They can blend it with normal tap water and this would allow us to develop a hot spring source which is good for a bath or shower in specialised resorts. All hotels and resorts that pay the fee to access hot spring water could promote themselves as health and wellness resorts and then Ranong would quickly become a real hot spring health resort town. We can also invite investors to create a hot spring theme park like those in Japan for family and children. But Thailand is a warm climate country, I am not quite sure whether the warm water of a hot spring will gain the approval of local people and our foreign visitors or not? I hope people in the travel industry realise that there are many Thai familiar with hot spring facilities in foreign countries, especially the hot springs in Japan which are quite famous among us. Since Ranong would like to be a hot spring town, we must use Japan as the model. We should distribute hot spring water through taps to bathrooms in hotels and resorts. They can blend it with normal tap water and this would allow us to develop a hot spring source which is good for a bath or shower in specialised resorts. All hotels and resorts that pay the fee to access hot spring water could promote themselves as health and wellness resorts and then Ranong would quickly become a real hot spring health resort town. We can also invite investors to create a hot spring theme park like those in Japan for family and children. But Thailand is a warm climate country, I am not quite sure whether the warm water of a hot spring will gain the approval of local people and our foreign visitors or not?

]]> http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2009/09/ranong-tinkers-with-its-springs/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Bill Abbott Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:24:47 +0000 http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/?p=7920#comment-550 Ranong is a nice place and has a lot to offer but to attract international guests or tourists it would pay the city to get the flights up and running to make it easy for people to travel down there. Ranong does have nice airport but it's a white elephant. Ranong is a nice place and has a lot to offer but to attract international guests or tourists it would pay the city to get the flights up and running to make it easy for people to travel down there. Ranong does have nice airport but it’s a white elephant.

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