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When I first moved to China, I knocked nearby the back streets and roads, as I all the time do. While my explorations, I bought a few old teapots. Personally, I all the time rely on my own judgment in buying art. I have made my own art, in a whole of mediums; I bought my first ceramic art, back in 1970. I studied art, I have had friends who are artists, and I have been dealing in assorted forms of art since that first buy (which was sold only with the sale of my country inn, in 2000). I did not spend a lot of money on those teapots, and I liked them. As it turned out they were fakes of very paramount teapot art, so I was not off the mark in my old teapot appreciation.
Over the years, I have learned a lot about Chinese Yixing zisha teapots, old and new. As it turns out, for old teapots, many population started development copies (fakes) of old teapots and aging them (bathtub full of dirt; then, dry). Actually, I am well-known with the basic techniques from my business development furniture and folk art reproductions and my other business of buying and selling the real thing. To make aged painted furniture, for example, we used old nails and milk paint and buried it in manure for a week. Brass can be aged by putting it in a place with fumes from ammonia. Then, we just used old glass with bubbles in it to make cabinets that looked antique. The point is that that is nothing new. population have been development both fakes and reproductions of many forms of art for many years.
In teapots, the situation is much worse, on a whole of fronts. First of all, the way in which teapots have been signed by an artist, off and on, over the past some hundred years, is with that artist's or factory's stamps, which have the Chinese characters of their names, sometimes, somewhat stylized. The stamp is usually on the lowest of the pot, which appears to have begun with the Gong Chun teapot. Later, marks were also included on the underside of the lid, and underneath the handle, although there are variations. We have also heard of a tradition that the direction of the stamp should be along the axis of handle and spout facing front, but, then, we have seen that single rule also violated. Before the late 1800's, it was also coarse for carved lettering to appear on teapot surfaces. Some specific details also apply to obvious periods. In the 1940's and 1950's, wooden seals were used with Chinese characters but no actual names. In the 1960's, a cooperative was formed, and all teapots were stamped only with Zhong Guo Yi Xing.
However, it was also common, While that period, for artists to put their own seals under the lid. While the cultural revolution of 1966 to 1976, artists were not permitted to put their seals on teapots but were assigned a number. The point is that it is easy to make a copy of the stamp from the primary stamp impressions on primary teapots, which can also be done with carved lettering. Before the 1960's, impressions of the primary seals were taken with red wax, which made a slightly smaller seal that the original. These days it is done by computer. In comparison, it is much more difficult, for example, to forge the written signature of an artist, Chinese or Western, although that also is not impossible, and many forged paintings of past artists have turned up over the years. In fact, the use of a black light can also sometimes help to spin fakes, in paintings.
The next thing is materials. As I mentioned, when we made reproductions of furniture and folk art, we used nails that were made by a business the same way for 200 years. We used milk paint that was also made the same way for some hundred years. Then, we could also get hardware that was antique, and we could even get wooden boards that were some hundred years old. We, then, fulfilled, pieces with our own homemade finishes, using the same materials that had been used for development finishes for hundreds of years. In teapots, there is old clay ready because, for example, teapot artist families have been buying clay from Yixing mines for many, many years and have passed some of it down straight through the generations. However, one of the real differences for older clay and older teapots is that the particle size of the rock powder development up the clay was about twice as large, in the mid-Qing Dynasty, about three times as large in the early Qing Dynasty, and about five times as large, in the Ming period. Thus, at least you should expect teapots to appear rougher, the supplementary back you go, although that same sort of roughness can be seen even with more new clays.
The other thing about teapots is that, although actual primary teapots by a paramount artist have a specific appearance, that is only an approximate circumstance. First of all, since each is made by hand, there might be little variations from one to the next, although minor. Secondly, there is nothing equivalent to, for example, the "signature" brushstrokes that one might witness in an oil painting by a paramount artist, for teapot art. For example, we recently saw a copy of a teapot by a contemporary artist with whom we are familiar. There was nothing at all wrong with it, technically, but it happened that the signature was put at an improper place, agreeing to our knowledge from owning an original. In fact, we would have bought the copy, but it was also priced at a higher price than we have to pay for originals. More importantly, part of the actual studying process for development Yixing teapots is to copy those of your mentor and of other paramount artists, so copying masterworks is even built into the instructional principles of the art. We even have an artist friend who specializes in development copies, down to the last detail, of paramount teapots, although he does not sell them as anything more than reproductions. We see other great copies of paramount and not so paramount contemporary and past teapots, all around. From what we hear from our dealer sources and from our sources, in Yixing, itself, over ninety percent of the famous-name or aged teapots that have been sold over the last few decades, as originals, are easily fakes, especially those that were sold to foreign buyers, While that time. We have seen similar numbers quoted in other articles about aged teapots.
Yixing teapots have been sold to the rest of the world for some hundred years, having been shipped with tea by European tea companies to European countries. Even as early as the late 1600's, both Dutch and English potters made fake Yixing teapots because the ones being imported from China were all the rage. Others were also shipped to Asian countries, for example, gongju teapots to Thailand. So, it is not impossible for old Yixing teapots to be found covering China, in expanding to those that were not shipped covering but were later purchased by foreign buyers from mainland sellers. However, with those shipped in earlier centuries, you have to shape that not many were shipped, in the first place, and few survived since most population did not think them to be that extra and pottery are easily breakable. Even the Sunbeam Tiger automobile from the 1960's that I owned in the 1990's only had about one third of the primary output left by that time, just twenty-some years later. In addition, as you go back in time, there were very few teapot artists; it is not the thousands that we have, today, someof whom mass furnish teapots. As a result, Yixing teapots bought by foreign buyers from China over the last some decades are carefully by most of us, in China, today, to be fairly suspect.
We recently were, in fact, approached by a foreign seeder who said he wanted to sell his collection of about one hundred aged teapots beck to China. Over the last some years, many foreign sellers have sold their teapots straight through local auctions, knowing that there was a price bubble in some sectors of the teapot market. This seller, who approached us, straight through the internet, sent us some pictures of rather coarse looking teapots, which he told us to show to any dealer and they would immediately know what they were. Now, we are not experts in aged teapots, but we know some, in dealers, and in Yixing multi-generational teapot art families. We also see thousands of teapots, both old and new, at the many teapot dealers, shops, studios and galleries that we pass through. We see fakes that are sold as fakes and fakes that we know are fakes from experience. Indeed, we had seen similar teapots, somewhere in our wanderings, but we sent the pictures along to our experts, too. What we got was ridicule for wasting their time.
In the end, development copies has been part of the art, itself, and copies and fakes have been nearby for centuries. The first wave of copies, in the twentieth century, was easily commissioned by some respected companies in Yixing and Shanghai, in the early 1900's. They had the best artists of the day make copies of paramount teapots from earlier periods, originally intended as reproductions. Eventually, those showed up in circulation offered as authentic, in later years. There was another wave of development fakes of all sorts of teapots beginning in the 1980's, prompted by increased foreign interrogate due to the normalization of cross-strait relations with Taiwan, and it continues into today. Indeed, China is, now, paramount for its copies of everything, and we see all sorts of things copied, from cigarettes to Ipods and more.
Of course, as with any other art, provenance is a key in purchasing old and new teapots. For newer teapots, artists easily make up hand-written certification that it is their teapot, and that can be passed on from one owner to the next. It is much like getting the publisher's certification for a 20th century lithograph by a paramount artist. That is at one extreme. However, we even know a contemporary teapot artist who told us that he met a Taiwanese man at an exhibition, in New York City, who bought what was supposed to have been a teapot made by that artist, and he had paid nearby ,000 for the teapot. He even had a written certification, but when the artist examined it, he said that the certification and the teapot were not genuine. He could tell because, although the forged hand-written signature was very good, the artist is easily left-handed, and the certificate was signed by a right-handed person. Our friends, in Yixing, who are both teapot artists and historical teapot scholars, tell us that often they see foreign collectors, who truly believe that they have authentic teapots because the good fakes are the only ones that they have ever seen or owned. I have even seen others comment on that in articles and blogs.
A few months back, my assistant was careless with a contemporary teapot that we have in the gallery and broke it. To make up for it, she went to a dealer, on Shamian Island, in Guangzhou, near the White Swan Hotel, the most high-priced foreigner hotel, in town, who she concept might tell her where to get it repaired. Instead, he sold her an exact replica of our teapot that he said was made by the artist's grandfather. It had a stamp on the lowest that was the same family name, and it was made to look old. Fortunately she paid only nearby for it because after I got back from a short business trip, we called the artist, and she told us that her grandfather never even made teapots. So, there are even fakes, on the market, by population who never existed, which is something you could only know, if you have the right connections. It even seems that some of those foreign buyers do not even know the allowable history of the teapots that they have bought. For example, just the other day we saw an advertisement on a Taiwan E-bay-like website to sell a gongju teapot, which teapots were easily made in the late Qing Dynasty, but on the website it said that it was from the Ming Dynasty, only a few centuries off the mark. Even the experts sometimes have issue whether detecting copies or in dating teapots. It is said that some experts are still arguing over the authenticity of the primary Gong Chun teapot housed in the Museum, in Beijing. Of course, the Gong Chun teapot has been copied over and over, though the centuries, and even some of those copies can be valuable. In fact, we have a nice copy, and we see copies with assorted variations, everywhere, in the teapot markets.
At the other, provenance usually consists of the chain of rights of the item. In that regard, sometimes a certification from a reputable art dealer is enough. On the other hand, I once bought a 19th century European painting by a known artist, from a reputable dealer with whom I had had many past dealing, and he had gotten it from a restorer, who gave his certify that it was authentic. In the end, I discovered that the artist's name, just like one of our current artists, Xin Ming Xuan's name, was misspelled in some major references about art 19th century artists, and the incorrect spelling was that, which was used to sign the painting I owned. Apparently, the restorer had "restored?" the signature, too. In the end, the dealer did take it back, but I saw it some years later, offered, again, by another dealer as an original.
As we said in another new blog, we like to take the guess work out of art, at least, to the extent that that can be done. To that end, in teapots, we have contacts in many of the older artists whose work is being sold, in both originals and copies. We also have contacts in some teapot art dynasty families, so we can thoroughly authenticate some teapots back straight through over a hundred years. We also have friends who have done a lot of dealing and study in older teapots, who know all of the tricks and pitfalls in the fakes markets.
As I said, I am not a superme master in aged Yixing teapots, but I have a lot of on the ground feel in general teapots and the teapot markets, in China. I have been an expert, in a whole of fields, including part field theory, functional analysis, securities and econometric analysis, merger arbitrage, securities law, fine inn keeping, art, development "antiques", investment psychology, life in contemporary China. I have also learned that one can find and use experts to help fill in knowledge and experience, and I can learn from them while I am using their services. In the end, currently, we do little buying in older teapots unless they are naturally nice older teapots at uncostly prices, whether or not we know the name.
We like good art, and, while we would never say that a price on a work of art was too high just because of the dollar whole on the price tag. I have spent millions of dollars, personally, on art over the years. However, as an investor, I understand uncostly versus bubble prices, no matter if it is oil prices, the price of the Chinese stock market, prices for folk art from the 18th century, or real estate prices in Guangzhou (the real arbitrage, there, is to rent: we pay Y3,000 per month rent, whereas the owner has a mortgage of over Y8,000 per month = losing proposition for the owner). Teapot prices are already too high for works of some contemporary artists, never mind those for works of paramount dead artists. A true indicator of that fact is the whole of foreign sellers over the last few years who have put their old teapots up for auction, in mainland China. In other Chinese art, everyone is looking to go the other direction and sell covering the mainland, be it in Hong Kong, London, or New York.
You can see some Yixing teapots and links to some other aged teapot sites on our site and blog. You can easily find a whole of references about zisha clay, Yixing teapots, paramount teapot artists over the last some centuries, and teapot art by searching the web.
Organizations around the world has been realizing the cultural diversity within club is not a negative aspect, rather can facilitate organizational stalk for glory (Papers4you.com, 2006). However it is not an easy task to conduct employees with separate cultural backgrounds. Nevertheless there are many procedure guidelines that can make task easy.
On a broader perspective, cultural diversity can be conduct straight through communicating (creating awareness among all employees about diverse values of peers straight through communication), cultivating ( facilitating acknowledgement, retain and encouragement of any employee' success by all other workers), and capitalizing (linking diversity to every enterprise process and strategy such as succession planning, reengineering, worker development, operation management and review, and recompense systems) strategies ( Cascio, 1995).
There are many separate innovative ways that organizations have adopted to conduct diversity. For instance Tabra Incorporation, a small manufacturer of jewellery and accessories in California comprised of modest workforce is composition of Third World immigrants from Cambodia, China, El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, Laos, Mexico, Thailand, Tibet Vietnam and other nations. To respond importance of their cultural association, at least 10-12 separate flags are all the time hanged from the ceiling of its main yield facility which represents the countries of origin of the employees. The owner's view point is 'I would like for this to be a puny United Nations everybody getting along and appreciating each other's culture instead of just tolerating it'. (Bhatia & Chaudary, 2003)
If cultural diversity can be managed effectively, there is a possible to use diverse workforce for organizational benefits. Cox and Balke (1991) asserts that multi-culturism is directly linked to organizational success as
Effectively managed multi culture companies have cost efficient competitive edge
It helps in promoting minority amiable reputation among prospective employees
Diverse cultural corporations help to get best customers which has a range of people
Diverse group of employees are perceived to be more creative and efficient in qoute solving as compared to homogenous group
Ability to conduct cultural diversity increases adaptability and flexibility of an club to environmental changes.
Many organizational examples can be taken in this regard. In Australia, for instance, Hotel Nikko in Sydney has unique edge that staff members in direct guest touch areas speak a total of 34 separate languages. Similarly Qantas Flight Catering has sixty-six nationalities on staff, with various overseas-born chefs. So dedicated diverse 'ethnic' kitchens gave Qantas a huge competitive edge that offers food based on customer's ethnic taste and requirements. Moreover Don's Smallgoods straight through literacy, language and cultural trainings increased cross-cultural transportation and increased profits while lowering costs at the same time. Similarly The Cheesecake facility had put special effort to understand Japanese ability and containers culture as Asian employees sustain management to understand Asian tastes so that they can target exports to Asia (Nankervis et al, 2002)
Hence the consulation suggests that it is imperative to realize that cultural diversity should be taken as a tool for best organizational improve rather than a managerial qoute and if effectively managed, it can be a key to gain competitive edge and success
References
Bhatia, S., K., & Chaudary, P., ( 2003),'Managing Cultural Diversity in Globalization- Key to enterprise Success of Global Managers- Insights and Strategies', New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publication Pvt Ltd
Cascio, W., F., (1995), 'Managing Human Resources' International Edition, Us: McGraw Hill.
Cox, T. H., & Balke, S., (1991), 'Managing Cultural Diversity: Implications for Organizational Competitiveness' Academy of management Executive, Vol 5, Issue 3, August 1991
Nankervis, A. Compton, R., & Baird, M., (2002) 'Strategic Human reserved supply Management'. 4th Edition. Victoria: Nelson Australia Pty Limited
Papers For You (2006) "P/Hr/188. Views on diversity management", available from Papers4you.com [19/06/2006]
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I have been conducting assistance training courses throughout Thailand in hotels, hospitals, education institutions and retail businesses for many years. Often, I have received questions from supervision and owners of how to make employees have more assistance mind, how to make staff have good behavior in servicing guests or how to make citizen be able to deliver perfect service.
My answers have never been short, however, in brief, I wish to say that assistance excellence could be proceeded with a well-thought straight through procedure, perfect implementation and sufficient monitoring and corollary up.
In this article, I like to touch first on "service mind" and "service behavior" for a clear and good understanding, because they are the core of assistance foundation.
I believe some citizen are born to be assistance minded and many citizen are trained to be. For the "born to be" ones, these citizen just like to serve, to help, to make others feel comfortable and they will be very happy when others are happy. They are the citizen who have "mind" to "service", that's why they are "service minded people". This type of assistance is purely from a good heart. However, the citizen who have a mind to assistance may not all the time come with the "right behavior".
"Service behavior" is the right and relevant behavior in the field. Many citizen do not have good behavior because they lack of life institution in their manner and lack of experience. Therefore, training is very prominent to make citizen understand what kind of "service behaviors" are unbelievable for guests. Most of citizen who have" assistance mind" have no question to accept the right "service behavior". However, some of the assistance minded citizen are not that fast in adapting the behaviors that are unbelievable in this generation. Let's take a hospital as an example! We all know that hospitals right now would like to be more international and want to upgrade their services, so good "service behaviors" are demandingly unbelievable especially from many high profile patients.
As mentioned above, I have conducted assistance training policy for many hospitals. Many staff and nurses love to help patient, but they may not legitimately speak nicely, and some of their manners are not good at all. They are truly there to help, but not be there to give good service. From my active training research, many citizen in most hospitals believe that "help and service" are separated. So, by training nursing people, I have to focus on manufacture them understand that - to truly help a patient, their assistance must be a kind of spiritual service. I mean that the assistance must come with the right behavior because the right behavior has a great impact to the patient's mind, relax and confidence.
In a short conclusion: To train citizen to be "service minded", the educator must be very sharp and use spiritual motivation techniques and also to emphasize at all times that the training is for their own improvement first. Because if the staff are not good, no way that the organization is going to be good. With confident and motivating training sessions, employees may moderately start to convert and come to be more a "service minded" person. Repetitive behaviors will convert citizen minds in most cases.
Finally, I like to add the prominent thing that; most staff are very motivated and wishes to assistance with the right behavior after the training session. But do you know the theorize why many employees lose their motivation to behave rightly day after day or even hour by hour.
I will tell you here: We train staff how to greet guest properly with smile and treat citizen with respect. But their supervision hardly smiles and approximately never greets staff first! Many times supervision not even responds to employees greeting. Moreover, most of the times, supervision never treat employees with respect. So, if the managers cannot or/ and are not willing to do, how the managers expect their staff to consistently do it. This fact is all the time the "number one" assistance failure at most associates I know. It is so easy for managers to watch other and criticism others! Why the managers never think what the staff wants out of them; legitimately all staff want a role model, want spiritual keep from their managers. That means managers must be a good example, not just a good commentator.
In my next article, I will start giving the reader bit by bit idea of how to achieve assistance excellence in an organization.
© Nate-tra Dhevabanchachai, normal Manager, Salaya Pavilion Hotel and Training Center, Mahidol University International College (www.salayapavilion) and Honorary Director of Mai-Bs (Thailand) firm Limited, a hotel and resort consulting and training firm http://mai-bs.com
Agriculture, as the case in India, has been the backbone of economy and chief source of income for the people of Bangladesh, the country made of villages. Government wants to decrease poverty by getting top productivity from agriculture and achieve self-reliance in food production. Apart from agriculture, the country is much implicated about the increase of export division. Bangladesh have accelerated and changed her exports substantially from time to time. After Bangladesh came into being, jute and tea were the most export-oriented industries. But with the continual perils of flood, failing jute fibre prices and a vital decline in world demand, the role of the jute sector to the country's economy has deteriorated (Spinanger, 1986). After that, focus has been shifted to the function of output sector, especially in garment industry.
The garment business of Bangladesh has been the key export division and a main source of foreign exchange for the last 25 years. At present, the country generates about billion worth of products each year by exporting garment. The business provides employment to about 3 million workers of whom 90% are women. Two non-market elements have performed a vital function in confirming the garment industry's continual success; these elements are (a) quotas under Multi- Fibre Arrangement1 (Mfa) in the North American shop and (b) extra shop entry to European markets. The whole course is strongly associated with the trend of relocation of production.
Displacement of output in the Garment Industry
The global economy is now controlled by the exchange of output where firms of industrialized countries swing their concentration to developing countries. The new representation is centred on a core-periphery principles of production, with a comparatively small centre of permanent employees dealing with finance, research and development, technological practice and modernisation and a periphery containing dependent elements of output procedure. Reducing costs and addition output are the main causes for this disposition. They have discovered that the simplest way to undercharge is to move output to a country where labour payment and output costs are lower. Since developing nations furnish areas that do not inflict costs like environmental degeneration, this practice protects the industrialized countries against the issues of environment and law. The exchange of output to Third World has helped the expansion of economy of these nations and also speed up the economy of the industrialized nations.
Garment business is controlled by the exchange of production. The globalisation of garment output started earlier and has extensive more than that of any other factory. The companies have transferred their blue-collar output activities from high-wage areas to low-cost manufacturing regions in industrialising countries. The enhancement of communication principles and networking has played a key role in this development. Export-oriented manufacturing has brought some good returns to the industrialising nations of Asia and Latin America since the 1960s. The first relocation of garment manufacturing took place from North America and Western Europe to Japan in the 1950s and the early 1960s. But during 1965 and 1983, Japan changed its concentration to more lucrative products like cars, stereos and computers and therefore, 400,000 workers were dismissed by Japanese textile and clothing industry. In impact, the second stock exchange of garment manufacturing was from Japan to the Asian Tigers - South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in 1970s. But the tendency of exchange of manufacturing did not remain there. The rise in labour payment and activeness of trade unions were in proportion to the enhancement in economies of the Asian Tigers. The business witnessed a third exchange of manufacturing from 1980s to 1990s; from the Asian Tigers to other developing countries - Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and China in particular. The 1990s have been led by the final group of exporters together with Bangladesh, Srilanka, Pakistan and Vietnam. But China was leader in the current of the relocation as in less than ten years (after 1980s) China emerged from nowhere to come to be the world's major constructor and exporter of clothing.
Bangladesh Garment Sector and Global Chain
The cause of this exchange can be clarified by the wages buildings in the garment industry, all over the world. Apparel labour payment per hour (wages and fringe benefits, Us$) in Usa is 10.12 but it is only 0.30 in Bangladesh. This incompatibility accelerated the world apparel exports from billion in 1965, with developing nations making up just 14 percent of the total, to 9 billion in 1991, with developing nations contributing 59 percent. In 1991 the estimate of workers in the ready-made garment business of Bangladesh was 582,000 and it grew up to 1,404,000 in 1998. In Usa, however, 1991-figure showed 1,106.0 thousand workers in the apparel sector and in 1998 it turned down to 765. 8 thousand.
The presented information reveals that the tendency of low labour charges is the key surmise for the exchange of garment manufacturing in Bangladesh. The practice initiated in late 1970s when the Asian Tiger nations were in quest of tactics to avoid the export quotas of Western countries. The garment units of Bangladesh are generally relying on the 'tiger' nations for raw materials. Mediators in Asian Tiger nations build an intermediary in the middle of the textile units in their home countries, where the spinning and weaving go on, and the Bangladeshi units where the cloth is cut, sewn, ironed and packed into cartons for export. The same representatives of tiger nations witness the shop for Bangladesh in some nations of the North. Large sell trading companies placed in the United States and Western Europe give most orders for Bangladeshi garment products. companies like Marks and Spencers (Uk) and C&A (the Netherlands) operate capital funds, in proportion to which the capital of Bangladeshi owners is patience. Shirts man-made in Bangladesh are sold in industrialized nations for five to ten times their imported price.
Collaboration of a native private garment industry, Desh Company, with a Korean company, Daewoo is an important instance of international garment chain that works as one of the grounds of the expansion of garment business in Bangladesh. Daewoo Corporation of South Korea, as part of its global policies, took interest in Bangladesh when the Chairman, Kim Woo-Choong, offered an aspiring joint speculation to the Government of Bangladesh, which included the increase and process of tyre, leather goods, and cement and garment factories. The Desh-Daewoo alliance was decisive in terms of getting into the global apparel markets at vital juncture, when import reforming was going on in this shop following the signing of Mfa in 1974. Daewoo, a South Korean important exporter of garments, was in crusade of opportunities in nations, which had hardly used their quotas. Due to the quota restriction for Korea after Mfa, the export of Daewoo became limited. Bangladesh as an Ldc got the opportunity to export without any constraint and for this cause Daewoo was implicated with the use of Bangladesh for their market. The purpose behind this need was that Bangladesh would rely on Daewoo for importing raw materials and at the same time Daewoo would get the shop in Bangladesh. When the Chairman of Daewoo displayed interest in Bangladesh, the country's President put him in touch with chairman of Desh Company, an ex-civil servant who was seeking more entrepreneurial pursuits.
To fulfil this wish, Daewoo signed a collaboration ageement with Desh Garment for five years. The ageement also incorporated the fields of technical training, purchase of machinery and fabric, plant preparation and marketing in return for a exact marketing commission on all exports by Desh during the ageement phase. Daewoo also imparted an exhaustive practical training of Desh employees in the working atmosphere of a multinational company. Daewoo keenly helped Desh in buying machinery and fabrics. Some technicians of Daewoo arrived Bangladesh to create the plant for Desh. The end effect of the association of Desh-Daewoo was important. In the first six years of its business, i.e. 1980/81-86/87, Desh export value increased at an yearly mean rate of 90%, reaching more than million in 1986/87.
It is claimed that the Desh-Daewoo alliance is a vital element for the increase and achievement of Bangladesh's entire garment export industry. After getting associated with Daewoo's brand names and marketing network, overseas buyers went on with buying garments from the corporation heedless of their origin. Out of the opportunity trainees most left Desh enterprise at some times to erect their own competing garment companies, worked as a way of spicy knowledge all through the whole garment sector.
It is vital to identify the outcomes of the process of spicy output from high pay to low pay nations for both developing and industrialized nations. It is a bare fact that most of the Third World nations are now on the way to industrialisation. In this procedure, workers are working under unfavourable working environment - minimal wages, unhealthy place of work, lack of security, no job guarantee, forced labour etc.
The route of globalisation is full of ups and downs for the developing nations. Relocations of comparatively mobile, blue-collar output from industrialized to developing nations, in some circumstances, can have troublesome effects on public life if - in the absence of sufficient planning and talks in the middle of international organisations and the government and/or organisations of the host nation - the transferred operation encourages urban-bound relocation and its span of stay is short. Someone else negative effect is that the rise in employment and/or income is not improbable to be satisfactorily large and whole to lessen inequality. In association with the negative results of relocation of manufacturing on employment in industrialized countries, we comprehend that in comparatively blue-collar industries, the growing imports from developing nations lead to inescapable losses in employment. It is held that development of trade with the South was a vital surmise of the disindustrialisation of employment in the North over past few decades.
After all employees who are enduringly working under unfavourable circumstances have to bear the brunt. Work is under-control across the Bangladesh garment sector. Appalling working atmosphere has been brought to light in the Bangladesh garment industry.
A research reveals that 90 percent of the garment employees went through illness or disease during the month before the interviews. Headache, anaemia, fever, chest, stomach, eye and ear pain, cough and cold, diarrhoea, dysentery, urinary tract infection and reproductive condition problems were more common diseases. The garment factories gave bonus of distinct diseases to the employees for working. With a view to finding out a link in the middle of these diseases and commercial threats, condition status of employees has been examined before and after advent in the garment work. At the end of examination, it was come out that about 75 percent of the garment workforce had sound condition before they entered the garment factory. The reasons of condition declines were commercial threats, unfavourable working environment, and want of staff facilities, inflexible terms and conditions of garment employment, workplace pressure, and low wages. distinct work-related threats and their sway on condition forced employees to leave the job after few months of joining the factory; the mean length of service was only 4 years.
The garment sector is disreputable for fires, which are said to have claimed over 200 lives in the past two years, though exact figures are tough to find. A shocking instance of absence of workplace security was the fire in November 2000, in which approximately 50 workers lost their lives in Narsingdi as exist doors were closed.
From the above determination of working atmosphere of garment sector, we can state that the working environment of most of the Third World nations, particularly Bangladesh remind us of earlier development of garment industries in the First World nations. The state of employment in many (not necessarily) textiles and clothing units in the developing nations take us back to those set up in the nineteenth century in Europe and North America. The mistreatment of garment employees in the birth duration of the development of Us garment factories reviewed above is more or less same as it seen now in the Bangladesh garment industry. Can we state that garment employees of the Third World nations living in the 21st century? Is it a return of the Sweatshop?
In a way, the Western companies are guilty of pitiable working atmosphere in the garment sector. The industrialized nations want to make more profit and therefore, force the developing nations to cut down the manufacturing cost. In order to survive in the competition, most of the developing nations plump immoral practices. By introducing inflexible terms and conditions in the business, the global economy has left few alternatives for the developing nations.
Right Time to Make a Decision
There are two alternatives to tackle the challenge of the competing world initiated by the continuous pressure of global garment chain. One can continue to exist in the competition by adopting time-honoured work systems or immoral practices. But it is uncertain how long they can continue to exist. In association with the garment business of Bangladesh, we can say that this is the right time to effect a competing policy, which improves quality. If the Mfa opportunities are eliminated, will it be feasible to keep the competitiveness through low-wage-female labour or through further drop in female wages? maybe not. Since the labour charges are so minimal that with such wage, a employee is not able to declare even a house of two members. Improving the efficiency of female workers is the only explication to increased competition. Allowable schooling and appropriate training can help achieve these inescapable results. To rule the global market, Bangladesh has to come out of low wage and low output complex in the garment industry. Bangladesh can improve labour output through constant training, use of upgraded technology and best working environment. Bangladesh should plan a strategy intended for promoting skill development, speeding up technology exchange and Improving productivity height of the workers.
Another recipe is to adopt best principles or ethical course. Those companies, which react to heightened competition by stressing quality, rapid reply of the customers, fair practices for labourers should have the most innovative practices. We think that we are now living in the age of competition in producing improved capability over cost-reduction policy. The objective of turn efforts at the workplace has been modified over the time - from making the job humane in the 1960s, to job pleasure and output in 1970s, to capability and competitiveness in the 1980s. It is vital for a enterprise to pursue a competing course that improves quality, flexibility, innovation and buyer care. If they rely on low costs by dropping labourers' wages and other services, they will be bereaved of labourers' dedication to work.
Strength
. vital Qualified/keen to learn workforce ready at low labour charges. The recommended minimum mean wages (which include Travelling Allowance, House Rent, healing Allowance, Maternity Benefit, Festival Bonus and Overtime Benefit) in the units within the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones (Bepz) are given as below; on the other hand, exterior the Bepz the wages are about 40% lower:
. Energy at low price
. verily accessible infrastructure like sea road, railroad, river and air communication
. Accessibility of basal infrastructure, which is about 3 decade old, generally established by the Korean, Taiwanese and Hong Kong Chinese industrialists.
. Fdi is legally permitted
. Slowly open Economy, particularly in the Export Promotion Zones
. Gsp under Eba (Everything But Arms) for Least industrialized Country applicable (Duty free to Eu)
. Improved Gsp advantages under Regional Cumulative
. finding forward to Duty Free Excess to Us, talks are on, and appear to be on hopeful track
. speculation assured under Foreign private speculation (Promotion and Protection) Act, 1980 which secures all foreign investments in Bangladesh
. Opic's (Overseas private speculation Corporation, Usa) guarnatee and finance agendas operable
. Bangladesh is a member of Multilateral speculation certify division (Miga) under which security and security measures are available
. Adjudication service of the International Centre for the hamlet of speculation Dispute (Icsid) offered
. Excellent Tele-communications network of E-mail, Internet, Fax, Isd, Nwd & Cellular services
. Feebleness of currency against dollar and the condition will persist to help exporters
. Bank interest@ 7% for financing exports
. Convenience of duty free practice bonded w/house
. Readiness of new units to improve systems and originate infrastructure accordant with stock increase and fast reactions to circumstances
Weakness
. Lack of marketing tactics
. The country is deficient in creativity
. Absence of verily on-hand middle management
. A small estimate of manufacturing methods
. Low acquiescence: there is an international pressure group to impel the local producers and the government to implement public acquiescence. The Us Gsp may be cancelled and purchasing from Us & Eu may decrease significantly
. M/c advancement is necessary. The machinery required to compare add on a garment or increase competence are missing in most industries.
. Lack of training organizations for commercial workers, supervisors and managers.
. Autocratic approach of nearly all the investors
. Fewer process units for textiles and garments
. Sluggish backward or forward blending procedure
. Incompetent ports, entry/exit complex and loading/unloading takes much time
. Speed money culture
. Time-consuming practice clearance
. Unreliable dependability with regard to Delivery/Qa/Product knowledge
. communication gap created by incomplete knowledge of English
. Subject to natural calamities
Opportunity
. Eu is willing to create business in a big way as an selection to china particularly for knits, together with sweaters
. Bangladesh is included in the Least industrialized Countries with which Us is committed to improve export trade
. Sweaters are very frugal even with china and is the expectation for Bangladesh
. If skilled technicians are ready to instruct, prearranged garment is an selection because labour and Energy cost are inexpensive.
. Foundation garments for Ladies for the Fdi promise is vital because both, the technicians and very industrialized machinery are vital for best competence and output
. Japan to be observed, as conventionally they purchase handloom textiles, home furniture and garments. This section can be encouraged and extensive with prolonged enlarge in quality
Threat
. The exporters have to put in order themselves to harvest the advantages offered by the opportunities.
Sales Letter Example That Sells, No Matter The Industry
A sales letter is the page designed to sell your product. You can have a astonishing product, but you won't earn a nickel if your sales letter lacks sizzle.
Your sales letter should grab a visitor's attention, prove you furnish a solution, take off risk, state a call to action, and hopefully (if done well) generate a sale.
Here is an example of how we write a sales letter...
All great sales letters comprise the following:
1. Catchy Headers and Subheaders
2. Unique Selling Proposition
3. Stated product Benefits
4. Testimonials
5. Special Offers
6. Digital Covers
7. Video Demos
8. Exceptional Guarantees
9. Trust construction Techniques
10. Bonuses
11. Follow-Ups
12. P.S.
Catchy Headers and Subheaders
Your main header, also referred to as a H1 tag, can:
o Target a pain point. "Are You Losing Your Hair?"
o Highlight a benefit. "Now You Can Re-grow Your Hair... Without Chemicals!"
o Invoke curiosity. "Can Broccoli prevent Hair Loss?"
o Include keywords.
Your subheaders will consequent the same format as your header. These two work best when they strike the reader from two separate angles. Your headline could invoke curiosity, while the sub-headline makes a bold claim like this "Now You Can Re-grow Your Hair... Without Chemicals!"
Example Headlines for a Sales Letter
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o How To (Cook Thai Food) Like The (Locals)
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Highlight Your Unique Selling Proposition
This is where you subtly demonstrate to your reader that your competition sucks. To do this, contemplate your competitor's sales letters, noting the benefits they offer- and more importantly, those they lack. Even if the two of you are selling the same product, you can position your offer in very separate ways. Are they offering a money back guarantee? Do they fail to cover a definite topic that your justify in detail? contemplate your competitor's weaknesses and demonstrate them to your prospects... Chances are, your prospects will shop colse to before committing, and it pays to plant the seeds of doubt in their minds about your competitors. Remember that subtlety is the key; you don't want to smear yourself as well!
Focus on Benefits, Not Features
Don't rattle off the features of your product; justify to your hope how they will benefit from it. For example, if you're selling air conditioners, population aren't curious in the features (e.g. Voltage, wattage, what type of plastic it's made of, etc.) they want to keep cool during summer!
To ensure you're listing benefits instead of features, ask yourself "How does this feature help my prospect?" List your features, then add the word "which" after it: whatever follows is a benefit. For example:
o Low power requirements, which lowers your energy bill.
o New polymer plastic casing, which cools your house faster than traditional models.
o Timer setting, which saves you the hassle of getting up in the middle of the night to turn it off.
I've heard this phrase so many times I roughly divulge it in my sleep, and yet, so many population forget this simple law of copywriting. Bullet points tend to work best in sales letters, as they are unquestionably scanned by readers. Keep in mind that your prospects aren't curious in every single benefit your product offers, just the ones that apply to them. By listing off dozens of benefits, you are addition the likelihood your prospects will come across one or two main benefits they are most curious in, and buy your product.
Include Testimonials
My wife and I were on Ko Phi Phi Island in Thailand (where the movie "The Beach" was filmed) getting ready to grab a bite. While finding at a map, a combine of guys came up to us and recommended a bistro saying, "This is the best bistro we've been to on the island. You should check it out."
Guess where we went for dinner?
We didn't personally know these guys, yet we trusted them. This demonstrates what is known as communal proof - population making decisions based on someone else's experience. If you're curious in something and you see that it has worked for others, you are more likely to trust them and-case in point- buy it. Testimonials are a great way to demonstrate communal proof to your prospects; they can see for themselves that your product works and provides value to real population without you forcing it down there throats. Rather than singing your own praises, why not let your satisfied customers do it for you?
Here's two ways to acquire testimonials:
1. When you're first testing your product (that is, the product you haven't created yet) ask population you know personally if they can furnish testimonials citing your expertise in a definite area applicable to your product.
2. Once you generate and sell your product, consequent up with the customer via email and ask for a testimonial. Here's what I use:
Dear ,
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I'd like to ask a favor. We're always trying to heighten our course, and would greatly appreciate your feedback. If it's Ok with you, please take a moment and jot down your thoughts in the box below. I promise not to comprise any personal facts other than your name and city.
Feel free to say whatever you feel. If you have some ideas on how to heighten our course, we're all ears.
Thanks , and I hope to hear from you soon.
Best regards,
Testimonial Box
I understand that has the right to use these comments in their marketing material. I also understand will Not use any personal facts with the exception of my name and city.
Comments:
Make sure to comprise a personal email address you check oftentimes in order to stay on top of testimonials as they come in.
Some population recommend offering an incentive in transfer for a testimonial such as a free report, though I've never had any issue securing them with this form. Besides, if your free procedure isn't good enough to guarantee praise, you probably need to think your product offer.
As the testimonials start to roll in, put them on your sales page as examples your product works!
People Don't Buy Products... They Buy Offers
You may have the single greatest product in the history of humanity, guaranteed to cure a wide variety of ailments, train your dog to stop barking and originate world peace, but without compiling it into a dynamite offer your product will fall flatter than a soufflé in a snowstorm.
Think of it this way: when you go to a fine dining restaurant, you're not just paying for the flavor of the food; you're also paying for the presentation. Your offer is the presentation; if your prospects don't like the presentation they won't even try your product. This is why creating a solid offer is imperative for your system's success.
So what makes a good offer? Here are the key components you of a dynamite offer:
Have capability Digital Cover
If you're creating an facts product that includes any downloadable Cds, generate a pro finding digital Cd cover for each disc. If you have an e-book or special report, generate covers for those as well. Be sure to comprise screenshots of the content as well, which should be professionally formatted.
Include Video Demos
Videos are a great tool for marketing your product and should be used where possible- I've used video demos for any products with great success. The process is simple: use Camtasia to record you demonstrating your product while explaining its benefits, then upload the video to YouTube and embed the code they give you onto your website. We'll talk about video marketing more in a bit.
Offer an Exceptional Guarantee
The main function of a guarantee is to take off all risk for your prospect. You want to make a guarantee so strong they'd feel like a fool for not buying your product. For example, you could offer a 60 day money back guarantee, and allow them to keep all the bonuses even if they decree to cancel. an additional one formula is to allow your hope to download your product for one dollar, and then payment their prestige card the remainder seven days later if they don't cancel.
Build Trust
When I receive emails from population request me "Is this for real?" I know it's time to build a higher level of trust with our prospects. Be sure to comprise links to your privacy policy, experience facts and a brief bio about yourself.
Privacy Policy
Your privacy procedure should go something like this:
: Privacy Policy
is committed to protecting the privacy and security of individuals that have contacted us. It is with that purpose in mind that we have formed our privacy guarantee. We realize that the concerns you bring to us are extremely personal in nature. We assure you that all facts shared will be managed within legal and ethical considerations.
Security of Information
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Accuracy of Information
We strive to ensure that our records comprise precise information. If there are any changes to your experience facts (e.g. Phone number, email, etc.), please email . We will abruptly make any critical changes to modernize your records.
Changes to Our Guarantee
We reserve the right to revise our privacy guarantee as our enterprise needs convert or as the law requires. If we revise our policy, we will furnish you with the new procedure at that time.
Web Links to Other Web Sites
Links to third party sites may be ready from 'http://www.yourwebsite.com'. Sites face the 'http://www.yourwebsite.com' domain are Not maintained by and is Not responsible for the content or availability of linked sites. Recommended links are Not an endorsement or guarantee of other sites or organizations and are simply provided for reference. The privacy and security policies of linked sites likely differ from and users are encouraged to divulge the privacy and security policies of these sites.
Contact Information
Buy a P.O. Box at your local post office and use that as your mailing address. Forty bucks a year provides peace of mind; you don't want your home address advertised to hundreds of thousands of people, right?
It's always better to comprise a phone amount as well. You can leave your personal number, or get a redirect line straight through Skype or Vonage. If you receive lot of calls, think signing up with a call town that will take messages and accept payments (there's a list of them at the end of this book).
Bio
Including a bio is a great occasion for you to sell yourself and build trust surrounded by readers, many of whom want to know a tiny about a someone before doing enterprise with them. Bios typically comprise the following elements:
o Educational Background
o Professional Background
o Experience with Current Business/Product
o Special Achievements
o Personal facts (e.g. City of home and house information)
o Picture
All of these are wholly optional and depend on your comfort level with sharing facts online. Internet. There is a fine line between highlighting your knowledge, skills, and achievements and coming off as a blowhard. Remember: the point is to build trust, hopefully to the point of getting a sale.
Offer Bonuses
Once you've demonstrated your product provides value and removed risk with a strong guarantee, push your prospects off the fence with a few value packed bonuses. The bonus is all about perceived value; many population in fact buy products for the bonuses themselves! If you're offering an e-book on Cajun cooking, offer a video that demonstrates how to make roux, and any other Cajun sauces. How about recipes for cocktails that are supreme in the South? A list of the best restaurants in New Orleans? All of these are easy to generate and dramatically heighten the value of your product.
Follow-Up
Let's say your prospects sign up for a free two week procedure on southern cooking. They are then presented with an offer to buy the full product. If they haven't purchased it, they receive an additional one e-mail, but with a twist: this could be a reduced price, an added bonus, or the occasion to pay in installments.
State a P.S.
Believe it or not, many population will scroll to the lowest of a sales page first. I do it all the time... Once I know I'm on a sales page, the first ask that comes to mind is "How much?"
This is unquestionably why you shouldn't list your price at the lowest of your sales letter. Instead, use a P.S., or just an additional one headline that reinforces your value proposition. Rather than request "How much?" they'll scroll up to learn more about your offer.
This sales letter example should help you craft a profitable sales letter in as tiny as a week. Write a draft and sit on it for a few days so you can see it with fresh eyes.
If citizen want to go to the best place to spend their holiday, it will be New Years 2011 in Miami. This is a great beach town in Florida, and many visitors flock there each year. Especially for New Years this is a extra event. This will be a short guide on what family and friends can do when they spend time there.
The first thing that citizen think of when someone mentions New Years is having fun. This is surely a fun town to be in. There are many overwhelming restaurants to eat at, and citizen can go to the fun nightclubs. Especially on New Years, these will be the destinations.
The second place citizen like to think of is going to the beaches. South Beach is the favorite site in this town, and one can enjoys days on the sandy beaches. The water of the Atlantic ocean rushes in, and it makes for a overwhelming time. citizen can party on the beach, too. Restaurants are ready to treat all parties.
If someone is seeing for a hotel, there are many great places to stay. There are places that suit all budgets. It is a amiable town so citizen are there to help. One should look to see if there are any extra events that they can attend. seeing for the sites where fireworks will be is also important.
Anyone who is seeing to celebrate this New Years Eve must consider this city. It is a overwhelming town with a lot of cultural heritage, too. citizen can enjoy the ethnic foods as well. There is no best place to get a blend of all of these things. There are accommodations for everyone, and this city wants to ring in the New Year like every other city, or they might out do everybody else.
Ban Bo Luang is a hamlet in Bo Klue District in Nan Province in northern Thailand. For centuries now the habitancy of Ban Bo Luang have been producing salt from the brine they have been collected from two wells in the mountains, which are situated some 1,900 meters above sea level.
The habitancy of Ban Bo Luang still make salt the good old way. They boil the brine until it crystallizes and then they dry the crystals in bamboo baskets on boiling pans. The salt that is produced using the age-old formula is pure, clean and perfect for consumption. Even iodine is added to the salt before it is packaged. The wells are truly unique. Although some years the brine is less, the wells never dry up.
In Ban Bo Luang, there are 20 families complex in producing salt. All the families have access to the brine without any problems and they yield salt and sell it to customers all over the country.
According to legends, the salt was first discovered in Nan when a hunter accidently finds reserves while chasing wild animals. Later, Chao Luang Phu Kha, the first king of Nan, came to know about the salt reserves so he dispatched his aide Chao Bo Luang to check out the area. The aide returned with affirmative riposte and then the king decided to manufacture the area into a village. habitancy from Chiang Saen were requested to move to Ban Bo Luang and this led to the digging of the two wells, which we see even today.
Every year in February, the habitancy of Bo Klue hold a three day ceremony to pay respect to Chao Bo Luang, who is carefully to be the guardian spirit of the district.
You've booked your flight, made reservations at the hotel, got man to bring in the mail and watch the dogs, what about the voyage insurance? I know what you're thinking, "I'm only going for two weeks", "I'll be fine I'm in great shape", "other habitancy get sick on vacation, not me", but what if you're wrong?
Thailand is known for being a business transaction for westerners. Cheap clothes, food, hotels, entertainment, even the hospitals and clinics are cheap compared to the west and with some of the best doctors in the world. Contrary to what some habitancy may believe Thailand has excellent health care. Even though Thailand is cheaper than the west in practically every class if you wind up in the hospital for a week or two it's still going to cost you and it will be more than you bargained for.
If you need some stitches or you pick up a bad case of pink eye then a clinic can patch you up literally and the cost will be minimal...around 700 Baht - 1200 Baht (-) and thats together with all the rehabilitation you'll need to take for anyone distance of time. But if you have seriously problems and are admitted to a hospital then the bills start to rack up. Hospital room, medicine, diagnostics, and so on. Then you could be looking at 30,000 baht and up...you do the math.
Whereas voyage assurance won't be much help for the minor ailments it will literally be worth the cost if something major comes up. On average for a two week trip most voyage assurance will cost you - which isn't much in the grand task of things. That estimate will usually cover major medical, flights to your home country if it's decided thats the best place for you, and most even have an added bonus that if you're hospitalized for a week or longer they will have a family member flown to you.
Travel assurance can also cover trip cancellations, lost luggage, and a convert in voyage plans depending on what options you choose. You may not have a great vacation if you get sick but if you have to pay for it out of pocket as well then it's sure to be a memorable trip and not for the right reasons.
I'm writing this because I came down with acute tonsillitis on my first trip to Thailand. Luckily a few trips to the clinic got me back into shape but it could have been bad and I wouldn't have been covered as I didn't even think about insurance.
The flight to Thailand is a long one if you live in the states (17 hours non stop from Jfk International) Which will have you nice and dehydrated if you don't drink a lot of water. The temperature in Thailand is Hot which can and will dry you added if you don't take care. Foreign food, foreign microbes, burning the candle at both ends, endless sight seeing, and a host of other things can and will come back to haunt you if you don't take care. Even if you do take care to forestall sickness there is all the time the unexpected and in Thailand that could be anyone from an over amorous elephant, a motorcycle taxi running you over and a host of other things just waiting for you colse to the next corner.
You may have great assurance in your home country but in most cases they won't cover you overseas.
Find a good voyage assurance and buy it for your trip no matter where you're going or for how long!
Phuket has turned into a challenging tourist destination generally because of its out-of-the world beaches and pleasant weather all the year round. This exotic island in the south of Thailand is located in the Andaman Sea. If you have ventured out on a refreshing vacation the Phuket Hotels are there to pamper you during your stay.
It is a delightful experience, especially for the beach lovers, to spend their vacation in Phuket. Whether you want to spend your honeymoon or you want to relax with your family you will not find any dearth of hotels in Phuket. The wide collection of Phuket hotels are located in approximately every projection of the region starting from the Phuket town to the long list of Phuket beaches.
Accommodation
Phuket is segmented into a large island and 39 small islands which are nothing less than paradise for the lovers of nature. The Patong Beach, known as the largest beach resort with a pulsating nightlife, has a number of world class hotels. There is an array of luxury hotels in Patong Beach which are dedicated towards serving unrestrained lavishness to the guests.
Absolute Seapearl Beach Resort, Andaman Beach Suites, Blue marine Resort and Spa and Club Andaman Beach Resort, are among the noted Phuket Hotels in Patong beach where staying is an exclusive affair. You can expect to get all sorts of contemporary luxuries in these star hotels that make your vacation of course pleasurable.
Kata Beach, an additional one prime destination for those coming to Phuket, has a collection of first-rate hotels that reflect elegance and lavishness. Katathani Phuket Beach Resort, Alpina Phuket Nalina Resort and Spa, Centara Kata Resort, and Malisa Villa Suites are among the few other luxury hotels in Thailand that have made a positive identity of their own. Your days will be wrapped in utter comfort.
Surin Beach is growing immensely favorite among the travelers coming from all corners of the world. If you select to stay here you can opt from an array of elaborate hotels like, Amanpuri Resort and The Chedi. Also all these you will find plentifulness of Phuket hotels in other favorite beaches like, Rawai Beach, Bang Tao, and Laem Singh Beach. Staying in these beach hotels give you the scope to indulge in beach activities and water sports.
Those willing to stay in Phuket town can hold on to a number of world class hotels. Royal Phuket City Hotel and Metropole Hotel are the paramount 4-star hotels in Phuket where you can settle on from different kind of rooms, and relish international delicacies in the in-house restaurants. Fitness town and guided tours are the base features of these hotels.
Chiang Mai is a gorgeous city in the North of Thailand and the capital of the Province of the same name. It is the second biggest city in Thailand and it is very popular among expats who live in Thailand. According to many of them this northern city has most of the attractions of Bangkok without the bad sides of the big city like Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
Chiang Mai is also the most culturally significant city in the northern Thailand, famous for its Lanna culture. The city used to be the capital of the Kingdom of Lanna from 1296 to 1768. The city is settled 700 km north of Bangkok, among the top mountains in the country. The top mountain in Thailand, Doi Inthanon is not far from the city. It is settled on the Ping river, a major tributary of the Chao Phraya river, the main river of Kingdom of Thailand.
Chiang Mai is the city were the ancient culture is mixed with modernity, because the city has become modernized lately. It is very popular also among tourists and other visitors. Every year about five million people visit the city, and among them between 1.4 million and 2 million are foreign tourists.
The city has been always very important because of its strategic location on the main trading routes and the Ping River. It has always been famous for its trade and shopping. Nowadays also a lot of the visitors come to Chiang Mai, just for one purpose - shopping. The city is famous for its handicrafts and arts. You can also buy there all kinds of imported products from other countries.
The most famous place for shopping in the city is the Night Bazaar. The Night Bazaar covers a quite large area that sprawls along the city's footpaths, inside buildings, temple grounds and open areas. It is especially crowded on Saturdays and Sundays.
There are also some other exciting markets in the city like a handicraft and food store that opens every Sunday afternoon till late on Rachadamnoen Road, twhich is the main street in the historical center of Chiang Mai. At that time the road is complete to cars.
Very exciting is also second hand Thieves store settled at the intersection of Kaeo Nawarat and Ratanakosin Roads, on the eastern side of the River Ping.
But there are also very contemporary shopping malls in Chiang Mai which are the centers of the entertainment of the city. One of them is Central Plaza Chiang Mai Airport which is very contemporary and settled only ten minutes from the city center and near the international airport of Chiang Mai. It is the place famous for shopping, food and entertainment. You can buy there all kinds of products, watch the latest Thai and western movies, some of them also in 3D, and try yummy Thai coffee.
Another contemporary and very popular mall in the city is Kad Suan Kaew Central Mall, settled on Huay Kaew road just 100-200 m from the old city moat.
