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...TRAVEL Thailand: Saving Koh Samui from itself...
...Bangkok Airways, organizers of the inaugural Koh Samui Carnival, flooded newsdesks this summer with breathless prose and photos of brown bodies draped in fruit and feathers. Koh Samui was billed as the "Rio de Janeiro of the East." The press release added: "To say that there has never been anything quite like it in Asia is an understatement...
...Hyperbolic promotions to lure back tourists are de rigueur in Asia these days?from Malaysian shopping carnivals to Hong Kong air ticket giveaways. And the Koh Samui Carnival is an example of the kind of latter-day tourism twaddle that should never have made it past a boardroom brainstorm...
...TRAVEL Thailand: Saving Koh Samui from itself...
...Indeed, since mentioning the R-word, Bangkok Airways have been backpedaling fast. "We don't expect people to compare us to Rio, we're just Koh Samui," says M.L. Nandhika Varavarn, the airline's senior director of corporate communications. She proclaimed the carnival a success, claiming a first-day crowd of 10,000, full hotels and extra flights scheduled from Bangkok. "The idea was to give the island a boost in the low season, and we achieved that...