Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) recently concluded Connections Plus 2014 ‘MICE on the Isles’, an annual mega familiarization program for 50 corporate executives from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, USA and Vietnam. The trip, organized in collaboration with Thai Airways International and Bangkok Airways.
During the program, the delegates visited and inspected a number of luxury hotel venues, their facilities, other recreational and adventurous attractions in Bangkok, Phuket and Khao Lak, a destination noted for beach setting and lying on the mainland 90 kilometres north of Phuket.
It was at Khao Lak where one key highlight of the program was featured for the delegates to experience a memorable touch of nature. They joined the release of 8-month-old hatchlings of Green Turtle into the Andaman Sea, which once was teeming with the reptiles. The turtle hatchlings were reared and nurtured by the Coastal Fisheries Research and Development Center of Phang-ngaprovince where Khao Lak is located.
TCEB opened a window of corporate social responsibility (CSR) opportunity for overseas delegates to release hatchlings of Green Turtle to their natural habitat in the Andaman Sea of southern Thailand. It is an effort to save the turtles, the existence of which is an indicator of the ecological integrity of the sea.
