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Article: Travel Etc: I buy with a little help from my friend Looking for bargains in Bangkok? Rose George can recommend a personal shopper
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 4, 2002
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Pong is all-powerful. He knows nearly everything, and even when he
doesn't, he knows a man who does. This is what makes him such a
treasured employee at the Banyan Tree Hotel in Bangkok. Because Pong -
a concierge by day - is the hotel's star "shopping companion" and a
priceless weapon in the eternal battle for business.
The luxurious hotel's shopping-companion service was the first in
Thailand, invented to soothe the gift-buying obligations of its
business-traveller clientele, who have little time to browse. But it
also fits nicely with the recent efforts of the Tourist Authority of
Thailand, which has embarked upon a campaign to entice women to the
country.
"We get too many single male ...
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