Pattaya

The Royal Cliff Beach Resort recently won a prestigious ‘Travel.ru Star’ consumer tourism award as the ‘Thailand’s Best Beach Resort’. The award is highly regarded as the winners are selected through online voting by thousands of Russian travelers and tourists.

Offering alms to monks, pour some Thai scented water on a Buddha image, enjoy folk plays and various forms of entertainment, as well as have refreshing fun splashing water on each other along the beach.

Internationally acclaimed publicity expert, Kate Engler will pull back the covers and share PR trade secrets at an international business conference this week in down town Pattaya.

As part of their course on art and design practice, the BA Multimedia Students at Asian University were given an assignment to produce character themed art work in the university grounds. The objectives include using the aesthetic qualities which derive from the natural environment. As Asian University is located (on Highway 331) on a large plot of land, with a variety of open space and trees, as well as flat and steeply sloping areas, there was plenty of choice of site.

Property in Thailand is probably one of the most lucrative investment arenas, worldwide, with prices almost 1/3 of an equivalent unit in most top Western destinations. This particularly applies to Pattaya where the total value of condos sold leapt from US$12m in H1,2005 to an astounding US$222m in H1,2008 (Bt 392.4m-7,258.33m), with prices rising from US$1,929 prices per square metre (psm) to US$3,264 psm (Bt63,096.51 - 106,767.98). In one case, The Cove topped Bt220,000 psm; the equivalent of top Bangkok prices. Being such a lucrative arena, however, makes the property market highly susceptible to scam merchants, one such we will elaborate on after giving you the background to the Pattaya Property Market.