Tour.Blog 3: RMUTT Blooming at “Lotus Virtual Museum”

Tour.Blog 3: RMUTT Blooming at

            Anybody know that RMUTT or Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi has a place to travel? … Well, maybe yes or maybe no. To tell you the truth, even RMUTT students itself do not know about place called “Lotus Virtual Museum”.

            Lotus Virtual Museum located at Klong 6, Thanyaburi, Pathumthani province inside RMUTT. It also called Lotus Museum of RMUTT. It invented in 2000, it was the royal initiatives of Her Royal Highness Sirindhorn, and was participated in Plant Genetic Conservation Project in 2003. It has a purpose to explore and collect Lotuses, planting, studying, and building conscious mind of Lotuses conserving. Nowadays, it has more than 400 of Lotuses species, such as Sacred Lotus, Nymphaea, Victoria Lotus and Thai lotuses which are difficult to find.

            My group in Tourism course visited there in the afternoon. I have been there for 2 or 3 times as a RMUTT staff to take care of University foreign guests, but I had not sightseeing much since I needed to service the guests, so it was my first time for sightseeing visit. Lotus Museum is not inside of building but it is an outdoor museum, I recommend everyone to check the weather before visit. Lotus Museum surely has a lot of kinds of lotuses, there are some lotuses that we never seen before. I found Victoria Lotus, which I read from book when I was a little that its leave can carry things about 20 kilograms or more, I was not quite sure, I would love to try, but my friends afraid the result. This is a good place for photographer who would like to practice their skill in flower photography.

Anyway, it was fun to get to know more about place for sightseeing, which is not far from us at all, if you are RMUTT students, why don’t try to visit, and feel the nature in RMUTT.

For more information: www.lotus.rmutt.ac.th

Fanpage: http//www.facebook.com/lotus.rmutt

           

Tour.Blog 2: Medical Tourism Bang! To future

Tour. Blog 2: 

Medical Tourism Bang! To future

          Health … this is a word which is very important for everyone of us. We all prefer to have a good health or healthy, we do not prefer to have disease or sick, that is why medical is what we are looking for.

          According to Horowitz, Rosensweig and Jones, “Medical tourism is becoming increasingly popular, and it is projected that as many as 750,000 Americans will seek offshore medical care in 2007. This phenomenon is driven by marketplace forces and occurs outside of the view and control of the organized healthcare system.” Medical tourism is a kind of tourism which let people travel and visit some place around the world to find and discover the way to fix their problem about health. Since, internet has been a tool to connect through the world, it is easier to find whatever you were seeking, and this is a kind of globalization also. The reason why people need to travel to other countries, because some countries have more knowledge or some common treatment that they may trust. The most popular kind of medical tourism is cosmetic surgery. Cosmetic surgery is different from plastic surgery, since plastic surgery is for heal or fix part of body to be normal, but cosmetic surgery is for beauty such as on nose, eyes, or face.

          All in all, medical tourism trend is going to keep increasing every year due to human preference, even for health or beauty.

         

Tour.Blog 1: WTO = World Tourism Organization

Tour.Blog 1: WTO = World Tourism Organization

            WTO or World Trade Organization is one of the organizations of UN (United Nations). They have a role to support a relationship between citizens and private organizations, support a relationship between countries and people who visit, and protect a useful relationship between industrial and citizens. 

            In short, WTO is an organization which has an objective to support international traveling. In the past, it was called International Union of Tourist Publicity Organization since 1925, and it developed to be “WTO” in the present. They have members more than 480 around the world.

            They have 6 missions as below:

1. To provide corporate for development

2. To provide knowledge and training

3. Environment and planning

4. Statistic and market research

5. Quality in traveling service

6. To be a coordinator and provide information

            And these are 5 structures of WTO:

General Assembly

The General Assembly is the principal gathering of the World Tourism Organization. It meets every two years to approve the budget and program of work and to debate topics of vital importance to the tourism sector. Every four years it elects a Secretary-General. The General Assembly is composed of Full Members and Associate Members. Affiliate Members and representatives of other international organizations participate as observers. The World Committee on Tourism Ethics is a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly.

Regional Commissions

UNWTO has six regional commissions-Africa, the Americas, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. The commissions meet at least once a year and are composed of all the Full Members and Associate Members from that region. Affiliate Members from the region participate as observers. 

Executive Council

The Executive Council is UNWTO's governing board, responsible for ensuring that the Organization carries out its work and adheres to its budget. It meets at least twice a year and is composed by Members elected by the General Assembly in a ratio of one for every five Full Members. As host country of UNWTO's Headquarters, Spain has a permanent seat on the Executive Council. Representatives of the Associate Members and Affiliate Members participate in Executive Council meetings as observers. 

Committees

Specialized committees of UNWTO Members advise on management and program content. These include: the Program  Committee, the Committee on Budget and Finance, the Committee on Statistics and the Tourism Satellite Account, the Committee on Market and Competitiveness, the Sustainable Development of Tourism Committee, the World Committee on Tourism Ethics, the Committee on Poverty Reduction and the Committee for the Review of applications for Affiliate Membership. 

Secretariat

The Secretariat is led by Secretary-General Taleb Rifai of Jordan, who supervises about 110 full-time staff at UNWTO's Madrid Headquarters. These officials are responsible for implementing UNWTO's program of work and serving the needs of Members. The Affiliate Members are supported by a full-time Executive Director at the Madrid Headquarters. The Secretariat also includes a regional support office for Asia-Pacific in Osaka, Japan, financed by the Japanese Government. The official languages of UNWTO are Arabic, English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

The Impact of Technology in International Business "Through Generations"

The Impact of Technology 

in International Business

"Through Generations"

            What is generation? Generation is a human life period and in the term of culture, it means a group of people who share the same period, and have the same or similar for both culture and social. In this case, I would to introduce you the past, present and future generation that very close to us.

            First, Generation X or Gen-X, a group of peoples who born around 1960 to 1980 or around 30 to 50 years old. They were born in the period of working and finding. They are confident and hard working. They were living between in early of technology development which is Baby Boomers generation, and later technology development which is Generation Y. So, they know how to apply technology to their work, and use it for working only such as contact business in oversea partner through e-mail, but their learning of technology is quite slower than new generations. As for gen-X customer, they would be a very carefully customer who have a bit old-fashion, and whenever they prefer to buy something they will very carefully consideration.

            Second, Generation Y or Gen-Y, a group of peoples who born around 1981 to 1992 or around 20 to 29 years old. They were born the developing of technology, and this is a period of Social network generation which is facebook or twitter. Gen Y love to post everything on their personal world on internet, they love to update their life, their stress, and their happy. The most things that they love is there would someone like and comment their post on internet. You could say that this is the generation of globalization which e-business or e-commerce was born. The truth is that you never know or hard to know that those on internet are not lie. Luckily, this generation still believes in parents and friends more than topic on internet. Anyway, it is much easier to catch up gen Y through internet.

            Third, Generation Z or Gen Z, a group of peoples who born around 1993 or more and around 10 years or below. They were born with technology. They all hold on both internet and internet supplies such as smart phone or android. They are very skill in using technology, they are fast study, and they have a lot of curiosity which desire to find by themselves or internet without asking other. Somehow, because they using internet to much, which cause their brain to not thinking or imaging well for new ideas. For international business, they are the hope of business future since, most of this generation people still studying. More and more technology also using through studying and teaching also.

            Conclusion, even you living in which generations, technology always have an important role for doing business especially in international business. Who knows that maybe in the future generation, we may not need to open store on ground anymore, we may move into internet world, and for customer they may no need to go outside for shopping, but they could stay at their house with their computer or smart phone to order or purchase product that they prefer

           

CIRCUS Elephants & OLD Ladies

CIRCUS Elephants & OLD Ladies

            What would you expect to see in circus?... Maybe, entertainment, magic, or animals. Then, what is hiding beyond these things?

            In the morning of Presentation study, I was reading on interesting story about ‘Circus’. The truth behind that curtain was a picture of big elephant chained with small chain, and Small elephant chained with the same size. The story said, when elephants were little, they will try their best to let them out from the chain, but apparently when they grow up, they found the truth that they cannot escape from it, that is why big elephant was clam and it was not try to escape anymore.

            Somewhere in this story, it reminds me of some conversation that I talked to my mom many recently. I told her, I wish her to getting older like American old lady. I saw a lot of Thai old ladies stay still at home, they are not doing anything much, and mostly sleeping for a long time while American old ladies still going  a lot outside, play games, do volunteering, and even travel from north to south. These were my experience during my exchange year in America when I was fifteen years old. Thai ladies are similar to circus elephants, they enjoy and struggle to seek the world in their youth life as small elephant, but in the future they just sit still and accept the time to pass them through as big elephants with small chain. I do not prefer my mom to be like other Thai old lady who let the time pass, but I prefer my mom to be always energetic as an American old lady. I would like my mom to be happy even now and future. 

Luckily, she accepted my offer; she tries to practice her brain all the times with games, such as word findings or crossword. She also takes care of herself even more, she eats good foods, sleeps early, and does some exercise. She even told me to always remind her to be as an American lady, and of course I will, since, I do not want her to be like a big elephant in the circus anyway.

 LOVE YOU MOM ...