BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Bangkok banquet beckons for rich
As the BBC reports, a Bangkok restaurant is putting on an extravagant show of culinary delights with a price tag to make you giddy. The idea of the event, hosted by the Dome Restaurant, is to promote high-class tourism to Thailand.
The only catch behind it is that there won't actually be any Thai food served during the 11-course meal, which will cost millionaires and billionaires 1 million Thai Baht (approx. £15,000) per head, tax & service not included (if there even are any tips going)!
Obviously promoting high-class tourism is an important issue. Thailand does - admittedly - suffer from its image as a paradise for sex tourists, wannabe hippie travellers and beer-fuelled package tourists. But anyone who has been there will know that each of the above groups has their own congregating grounds and tend to leave most of the country to the truly interested.
This won't be on the menu at the Dome Restaurant's millionaire's bash
Confronted with concern over the environmental cost of not just having foreigners, but most of the food flown in for the privilege of a single night, Deepak Ohri, managing director of the restaurant, told the BBC that if the restaurant achieves its goal, quality tourism will rise and for some, unmentioned reason drive down the" lesser forms of leading less flights as people on board those planes more money spend this compensate the losses other tourism sectors would have to shoulder.
Sometimes, some people's logic simply defies logic, doesn't it?
The only catch behind it is that there won't actually be any Thai food served during the 11-course meal, which will cost millionaires and billionaires 1 million Thai Baht (approx. £15,000) per head, tax & service not included (if there even are any tips going)!
Obviously promoting high-class tourism is an important issue. Thailand does - admittedly - suffer from its image as a paradise for sex tourists, wannabe hippie travellers and beer-fuelled package tourists. But anyone who has been there will know that each of the above groups has their own congregating grounds and tend to leave most of the country to the truly interested.
This won't be on the menu at the Dome Restaurant's millionaire's bash
Confronted with concern over the environmental cost of not just having foreigners, but most of the food flown in for the privilege of a single night, Deepak Ohri, managing director of the restaurant, told the BBC that if the restaurant achieves its goal, quality tourism will rise and for some, unmentioned reason drive down the" lesser forms of leading less flights as people on board those planes more money spend this compensate the losses other tourism sectors would have to shoulder.
Sometimes, some people's logic simply defies logic, doesn't it?
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