ocr: TRAVEL The Island Villas at Laguna Phuket command a sweeping view of the Andaman: Sea From Tin Mine tol Family Resort "MUCH of it looked as though it had just gone even won its owner-developer a top intemational through a war-totally denuded, piles ofl blackened conservation award: the American Expressinterna- soil, craters in the ground, broken huts and rusting tional Hotel Association (IHA) environment Award piles of olackened soil." "Thatwas how Ho Kwon- 1992. Ping, president of Thai Wah Resorts Development, Only an hour's flight from Bangkok, the resort described the abandoned tin-mining s ...