Dear Sir/Madam:
We, would like to inform you that we have been invited by Vientiane Capital Tourism Administration Department to join in the Sister Capital Week Fair 2008 which will be held on 29th to 31st August 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. There will be 17 participants from around the world represented in this fair.
For this special event, we were given an appreciative responsibility to exhibit and promote Laos, especially our Vientiane 450th anniversary as capital city of Laos. In order to further achieve and to open Laos travel business, we will showcase at the fair the Lao Association of Travel Agents (LATA) directory, currently with 56 committed members. Green Discovery Laos is one of the proud members of LATA; therefore, we greatly provide support through the promotion of other LATA membership, distribution, and advertisement of materials at the fair.
We are grateful and appreciative to Vientiane Capital Tourism Administration Department for selecting Green Discovery Laos to represent the country of Laos, and Vientiane Capital City in this prestigious international event.
Finally, we would like to inform all travel agencies in Laos to please feel free to give your feedbacks, comments and assistance by contacting our office or via
email: info@greendiscoverylaos.com
Vientiane, 23 July 2008
Thank you kindly,
Thongngearn SENGKHAM
Marketing Manager
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Since 2003, We, GREEN DISCOVERY Adventure travel & Eco-tourism Specialist in Laos (GDL), have had a Community Development and Study Tour group from Japan. We operated this program twice a year. This is our sixth year of implementation. The final tour of 2008, will be held on 4th to 9th August. Even though, these students are from big cities and living modern life style, but we believe nowadays that there are more people, particularly students interested in experimenting through learning hands on about ancient or undeveloped life styles. The table below shows the increasing number of study tour students from 2003 until now.
NO |
season 1 |
study tour students |
season 2 |
study tour students |
Remark |
1 |
8-12 Feb 2003 |
25 |
3-8 Aug 2003 |
25 |
|
2 |
6-14 Feb 2004 |
25 |
21-25 Aug 2004 |
30 |
|
3 |
7-11 Feb 2005 |
30 |
8-12 Aug 2005 |
30 |
|
4 |
9-13 Feb 2006 |
36 |
6-12 Aug 2006 |
40 |
|
5 |
3-8 Feb 2007 |
32 |
5-8 Aug 2007 |
45 |
|
6 |
9-14 Feb 2008 |
45 |
4-9 August 08 |
50 |
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As you can see from the table above, there are more and more students showing interest in this type of tour where one’s can make a positive change in the villager’s lives.
We would like to offer you this creative variety study tour for those of you that looking for a place to lend a helping hand and development where part of your well spent money go directly to our local villagers in the rural area. You will not learn everything about their daily lifestyle for short-term home stays, especially with the language and cultural challenges, but more importantly, at least you will get a glimpse of experience and hands on participation in their daily routines such as: raising animal, farming, gardening, cooking, and interaction with family and other villagers.
