Weird News
1 June 2012
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no news is bad news for hua hin jazz festival
hua hin, THAILAND The annual shambolic preparation for the Hua Hin Jazz Festival is scaling new heights this year, following last year’s thrice moved event, which still attracted thousands of visitors to the town. At a time when the town could most do with the tourism boost the event brings, the dates for the 2012 festival have not been announced, even provisionally, and while it has already become an annual farce, this year is looking like topping the lot with regard to planning and promotion. We contacted last year’s organisers, Bangkok Fanatix, who we had been led to believe had been given a two year contract to organise the event, and were told by them that they would not be involved in this year’s festival ‘unless something changed significantly’. They did not directly expand on what they meant by this however, but it seems likely that last year’s problems with financing and coordination with the local authorities would have played a part in this. The tourist authority, TAT, informed us that they couldn’t give any comfirmed information, but that the festival ‘might be in the second weekend in June’. When we asked who was organising the event, we were told ‘Bangkok Fanatix’. For such a major event, not just for the town, province or country, but internationally, to be so poorly organised and promoted year in, year out is an absolute scandal, resulting in lost revenue for local businesses and an embarrassing stain on the town’s reputation, making it more difficult every year for anyone to organise and finance the festival. Will it happen this year? Based on previous experience, it probably will, but they are almost out of time, and it could be so much better.
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