TIC stands for Tourism Idea Contest which was organized by the Municiple of Battambang with supported from the German Development Service (DED) in cooperation with the Provincial of Tourism. The contest was conducted between September and Decenber 2010. The contestors elaborated the excellent ideas for a participatory and sustainable tourism development in line with Cambodian development policies.
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| Tourism Idea Contest Group 2010 |
The mixture of two university group, Pannasastra university of Cambodia and Build Brigde University, was established with the strong individual commiment in this contest. Five members included, Dara, Sophea, Konkea, Nong and Nita, We all had the same willing to win in this contest. Everyday discussion at 5:00 P.M in Pannasastra University Battamband Campus was the best group meeting to plan our new tourism project. We founded many great ideas during discussion to fullfill our project.
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| Sompov Mountain Research |
There were two main ideas, which included in our tourism project, were approved by group members. Building the Cultural Village was my first idea submitted to the group approval and the whole project. Another idea of my group member Sophea was "Develop Komping Pouy Lake". She claimed to build a medium tourism boat in this lake, if possible she wanted to clean whatever dirty garbage that remained too. In order to improve the infrastructure around this destination, road and parking lord should be developed to the better one she said.
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| Top of Sompov Mountain |
After one month and half for theory and group discussion in PUC, we started to determine the specific areas for fieldtrip and doing research. We found forth essential areas to do research which our project focused on the most, Sompov and Banann mountain, Komping Pouy Lake and Ek Phnom temple.
Our first destination in the schedule were Sompov mountain and Banann mountain. We spent almost the full morning to visit the whole sites around both mountains. We looked the real problems that facing to the destinations. We also ask some comments from people about each destination for statistical data.
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| In Front of Buddha Statute |
In addition, Komping Pouy Lake was the last destination of our field trip line. Someone among our group showed up the great imaginary idea to support her main subproject. Anyway, beside fieldtrip direction, we spent almost a long time to see the Cambodian Wine Graph production line and the process of planting the graph in Banann area. The test of the wine, which was offered by the owner of graph farm to us, was very nice and unforgetable. The owner of farm explained us many good experiences since she and her husband started planting the graph until they had the big sucessed up to now.
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| Presentation at Khemara Hotel |
Eventhough we didn't win in this contest, we recieved many improtant skills and experiences to work in the project and work as group. It seens like an urban legend that we had to demonstrate our whole project to public and judgement comittee instantly. We were a daredevill group whom had strongly confident and commitment to our mega imaginary tourism project. We didn't afraid to get whether positive and negative result from this contest after judged. The signal before presentation was very severe to each member but during the orbiting discussion for several minutes, we started to stubborn the frightening emotion which no longer existed with us. By the way, hypnotism was very great way for discussion to find utilized presentation.
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| Komping Pouy Direction |
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| Under the Banann Cave |
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| Group Praying in the Cave |
