Labels:text | screenshot OCR: TRAVEL The Island Villas at Laguna Phuket command a sweeping view of the Andaman Sea From Tin Mine to 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 of blackened conservation award: the American Express/Interna- soil, craters in the ground, broken huts and rusting tional Hotel Association (IHA) Environment Award piles of blackened soil." That was 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 site when he complex features four five-star hotels, 20 Asian and first saw it. westem restaurants and bars, an 18-hole champi- Today that same site, which had been written off onship golf course and a host of water and land as an environmental disaster, is a tropical holiday sports facilities. paradise comparable to the best in the world. Lo- All the hotels-the 232-room Dusit Laguna Hotel, cated at Bang Tao Bay on the northwestem side of the 259-room Pacific Islands Club, the 370-room Thailand's Phuket Island, Laguna Beach Resort Sheraton Grande Laguna Hotel and the 160-room
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