Tsunami Memorial Day is planned as big event from December 25 to 28.
Indeed 4 days, that's how bad it gets, a horrible day remembered in four days.
An other luminous idea is to “Light Up Patong Beach”, including lighting 100,000 candles on the beach on the evening of 26 December.
Old-school rocker Eric Clapton has been invited. :rock:
But they are planning to invite Elton John to play “Candle in the Wind”, Kiri Te Kanawa to sing the “Ave Maria” and top Asian stars from China, India and Thailand to perform. :pang:
Indeed, that's that's how bad it can get.
The show is planned despite protests from hotel operators, who say the timing is bad – December 26 is in the midst of the peak tourism season. They fear such ceremonies would remind visitors of the tragedy and cast a pall over business.
Some in the tourism industry asked TAT* to make the event as grand as Verdi’s opera “Aida” at the site of the Luxor massacre in Egypt, the impressively arranged funeral for Lady Diana, or the September 11 memorial services held each year in New York.
The more than 300.000 victims exploited for commercial purposes: that's how bad it got.
"despite protests from hotel operators", indeed these people are expats -farangs- people with some feeling for decency.
*TAT, Tourism Authority Thailand.
