I'm now on Phu Quoc, an amazing island south of Vietnam/Cambodia. Lovely long white beaches, turqoise sea, palm trees, sunshine... I'm sure all of you in the UK and Scandinavia really want to hear about how it is in this lovely tropical paradise :p
There are some resorts and guesthouses along the beach, but not that many. If you walk further along the beach you're completely alone for km after km of white sand. Fantastic! But it looks like they're building quite a lot so I'm sure that a few years from now most of the beach will be developed and resemble Ko Lanta and other islands in Thailand.
I'm staying in a bungalow that's the best accomodation I had during this trip (my parents house excluded); I've got a superclean big room and bathroom and even a kitchen! No AC or hot water, but I don't really need that, and for 8 dollars a night, this is a true bargain.
The first day here when I was walking along the beach I met one of the girls from my diving trip, Karen. I knew she was trying to get to Vietnam after the course, but her flight was cancelled due to the occupation of the airport in Bangkok, and she was travelling through Cambodia instead. Quite lucky I met her on the beach! It's a small world. Very small actually, because today when I went out on a snorkelling trip I met a couple from my home town in Sweden, Uppsala. I thought I recognized the guy, and it turned out that he used to belong to the same student nation as I did, that's why he looked familiar. Oh, and I met Jocke, a Swedish guy I know from London but who now is back in Sweden, when I was waiting for the bus in Khao Lak. Small world indeed.
I'm writing this from a beach bar with lots of Christmas decoration, and also a huge inflated snow man out on the beach. Weird but funny. The other night it looked like the snow man was melting as it started to deflate after the island lost electricity... The electricity comes and goes several times a day, my flash light is one of my favourite possesions at the moment.
It's going to be strange celebrating Christmas here in Vietnam. Reading everyones updates on facebook about christmas parties, glogg and lussebullar (actually got one lussbulle when I was in Huay Yang, one of my parent's neighbours had baked lussebullar) I realize that Christmas actually is only a week away, but it feels very far away here despite all the Christmas decorations.
Time to go, the IT connection here is quite expensive, 30 000 dong/hour. Luckily 30 000 dong is around 1 GBP, so not to bad
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- The hungry Swede aka Saga
- I’m a 36 yrs old Swede, living in London for the last 6 years. I love to cook, eat and talk about food. This blog will be about the food I cook and food I enjoy when eating out. Enjoy and smaklig måltid!
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CONTRIBUTION ON SETTING STRATEGIES FOR PHU QUOC TOURISM (KIENGIANG – VIETNAM)
(FOR FOREIGN TOURIST)
Hello, I a member of “dulichphuquoc.info”. and I am doing a research, topic: “ BUILDING STRATIGIES FOR KIENGIANG (PHUQUOC) TOURISM TO YEAR 2015, VISION TO 2025”. Therefore, I would like you please to help me with some questions about choosing the best strategy.
Guide to answer:
I give you four strategies which I built before. Of these strategies, you will grade marks for each strategy. If you yourself feel the trategy XXX is the most urgent, important and suitable strategy for PhuQuoc tourism in particular and KienGiang tourism in general, please give it 4 marks. The less important, urgent strategy, you give it 3 marks and … to the least important and urgent, please give it 1 mark.
For example; if in recent time, when you travelled PhuQuoc or HaTien or RachGia, you saw that the infrastructure, transportation here is very bad, it is the biggest obstacle for growing tourism here, and They are very necessary to be reformed and newly built; you will give the strategy “ Reforming and improving infrastructure and transportation” 4 marks. While, you suppose that there is little information of KienGiang (Phuquoc) tourism, you and other tourists do not know much about it and it is necessary for KienGiang to increase marketing, advertising solutions; you will give the strategy “ Increasing marketing and advertising more effectively” 3 marks.
If You think tha “ PhuQuoc owns enough conditions and potentials to grow luxury tourism, such as MICE tourism, health tourism… in near future, but because it is poor at infrastructure and transportation… “ you will give the strategy “Develop luxury tourism, sea and island tourism” 2 marks…( IT IS JUST LIKE RANKING A SONG WITH STARS). YOU will do so for the another.
Basing on your evaluation, we will select only one strategy which is the highest graded to focus on.
FOUR STRATEGIES
1 . Reforming and improving infrastructure and transportation……………………… (marks)
2 . Increasing marketing and advertising more effectively………………………………. (marks)
3. Improve the attractiveness of tourism products…………………………………………...(marks)
4. Develop luxury tourism, sea and island tourism…………………………………………….(marks)
PLEASE GIVE ME US SOME YOUR INFORMATION.
Name (if possible):…………………………………………………………………………………………….
Age (YES if you are, LEAVE IT EMPTY if you are NOT)
From 20 to 25 years old ……………….
Over 25 years old………………………..
Your country:………………………………………………
Travelling time to Kien Giang: ……..month……….year 200…
WE APPRECIATE YOUR HELP ON THE RESEARCH, YOU HAVE GIVEN PHUQUOC IN PARTICULAR AND KIENGIANG IN GENERAL GOOD CONTRIBUTION.
PLEASE SEND EMAIL TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,
Email address: vietdragon2020@yahoo.com
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
WELCOME TO VIETNAM NEXT TIME!
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