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.