Labels:text | screenshot | sky | cloud | newspaper | outdoor OCR: TRAVEL To avoid alienating its workforce-about 70 per cent of its 1,820 workers are locals from Phuket -the company has built staff dormitories, which have been mistaken for three-star hotels, and pro- vided a free pre-school daycare centre. The management has also adopted a liberal stance on staff access to resort facilities. Although paying guests come first, staff do enjoy good ac- cess to the food and beverage outlets and sports facilities. Obviously, this has had a very positive effect on their morale and their conduct towards guests. Staff turnover is, understandably, very preservation of the flora low. and fauna and biological Local food hawkers-a common sight on ecosystems around us. beaches around the world, have also been inte- "But the human environ- grated into the resort. Instead of chasing them ment is vital, and it is a away, Thai Wah constructed a special, hygenically contradiction particularly af- designed food centre for the hawkers to market fecting resort development their range of mouth-watering delicacies. The only Top : Thatched roofs in the Third World. This is restriction is that the stalls must be closed, for add character to the the disparity in lifestyles safety reasons, during the monsoon season. res ort and living standards be- As Asia's first integrated resort, Laguna Beach Above: Thai hospitality tween those who relax in Resort sets a fine example of how tourism poten- atits best our resorts and those who tial can be developed with sensitivity to the envi- build them or work in them." ronment and concem forthe local community.
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