Get Your Baht To Thailand

We deserve the worldwide recession, in my opinion.

The developed world was living far beyond its means.

The most interesting aspect of the downturn to me are the opportunities that are opening up as economies restructure.

For example, this promotion by Air Asia and the government of Thailand:

AirAsia is offering 100,000 free tickets to Thailand under a regional marketing campaign, ‘Get Your Baht To Thailand’ (a play on Thai currency) to support its tourism industry which was battered by the recent political unrest. The sale of these free tickets commenced yesterday and will be on till tomorrow. These tickets are for travel between January 6, 2009 and March 31, 2009 and can only be purchased online at AirAsia’s website. The airline is giving tickets to Bangkok from Vietnam, Cambodia, Myammar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and China, as well as for flights within Thailand. Passengers will only have to pay airport taxes and administration fee. Also AirAsia last month abolished fuel surcharges on all its flights. …

AirAsia offers 1, 00,000 free tickets to Thailand to boost battered tourism industry