From Bangkokpost.com:

CHIANG MAI : Local tourism businesses are committed to repositioning Chiang Mai as a destination for the meeting, incentive, convention and exhibition (Mice) business in place of leisure travel in an effort to address a tourism slowdown in the province.

The northern province has been seen as a leisure tourism destination for 30 years but few new tourism products have been developed to attract return visitors, according to Kanok Suwansutr, president of the Northern Chapter of the Thai Hotels Association.

”The private sector hopes that the repositioning of Chiang Mai will help attract Mice visitors to revisit throughout the entire year, not just for [the October-February high] season at present,” said Mr Kanok.

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If you’d been watching the news, you’ll be aware that tropical cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on 4 May and left terrible destruction in its wake. Thailand was spared and only experienced some rains in the north.

But a UN weather expert warned today that further cyclones could hit Myanmar:

GENEVA (AFP) - - Myanmar could suffer another major storm this season even as it braces for more bad weather after the devastating impact of Cyclone Nargis, a UN weather expert warned Friday.

 

“It’s not rare if they have another (cyclone),” said Yuichi Ono, a programme officer for the UN’s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).

 

The Bay of Bengal generally sees two cyclone ‘peaks’ either side of the monsoon season which is likely to start by the end of May, Ono told AFP.

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