When
Meeting 8: Monday 18th August 2008
Time: 9pm-10pm
Attendance: Rest of the teams
Venue: Pub Street

Objectives
Objective: Gather information on the tourist expectations and demand on the traditional Cambodian arts
Items discussed/done:
-Onsite surveys on the tourists
-gather and evaluate the results
-Brief the other teams on the findings

Reflections
I am really grateful with the help from other teams.
As the survey idea was only thought of in the afternoon, with the last minute concept in mind, all other fyp cambodia teams were nice enough to help us, especially in the night.

After I brief the whole cambodia teams about the survey, off we went to pub street at 9pm, to collect feedbacks.

We have started off shy, as we didn't dare to approach the tourists.
As minutes passed, we were kind of warmed up, and went forward to approach tourists much easily.
It is quite funny, as some of the tourists thought that we were selling stuffs to them, in which is common in the streets of Cambodia. Thus a lot of rejections were received. However, we still managed to accomplished our tasks!

the feedbacks were positive, as we managed to justify a demand for the traditional arts, providing a reason for the busy delegates in the tourism industry of Siem Reap to come down to Prolung Khmer industry event.
Thumbs up team Cambodia!

When
Meeting 7: Monday 18th August 2008
Time:
Attendance: Sherwin with the rest of the leaders of the Cambodian FYP crew
Who we met: Sharon; owner of the Prolung Khmer Centre
Venue: Indian restaurant

Objectives
Objective: Communicate event and discuss restrictions; Objectives of the Prolung Khmer Centre Item discussed:
-Souvenir/special rate issues
-Quantity issues on the souvenirs
-Image and branding of the Centre
-Main objective that the centre wants to portray
- Reviving the traditional weaving and pottery in Cambodia, Empowering the women with life skills

Reflections
Sherwin went to meet Sharon the owner of the Prolung Khmer centre.
I wish him good luck!
the rest of the team, continued on the project work, as we decided to have a street survey done, to prove to delegates that there is a demand from tourists to know more about the traditional arts of Cambodia, and may they work with the centre to bring in more tourists down to check out the centre, creating awareness and business.

Excitement was present, as it it the first time we are doing a street survey, moreover in Cambodia!

When
Meeting6: Monday 18th August 2008
Time: 1pm-6pm
Attendance: All
Venue: Blue pumpkin

Objectives
Objective: Settle all timelines and logistics items
Item discussed:
-Structure of timeline of the event
-Duration
-Refine of target audience
-Working with the other teams regarding logistic and marketing issues
-Restrictions and questions to be asked during the meeting with the owner

Reflections
I think the Blue Pumpkin is my favourite place.
It is the closest to home, as it reminds me of starbucks.

After visiting Artisans, we went back to Blue Pumpkin, a cafe which we declare our home base, on the changes needed to our event. Below we mentioned the lack of space, thus decided to cut down to 30 guests!

With information and logistics changed, we have to work with the online teams, to update them of the changes. With that, we continued working on, identifying questions needed to ask the venue owner. Sherwin was picked, to have dinner with Sharon (venue owner of the Prolung Khmer Centre) and ask questions to solve our problems. Hopefully everything goes well.

With that, we scrape off our tiki theme, as we noticed that it cannot reflect the cambodian spirit. Continueing, the team decided to work on the orginal look of the centre, brainstorming on more ideas on the concept of the event.

When
Meeting 5: Monday 18th August 2008
Time: 10am-11am
Attendance: All
Venue: Cambodia, Siem Reap, Artisan D’ Angkor

Objectives
Objective: To experience how a similar social enterprise evolve into a private corporation.
Item discussed:
-How can we turn Prolung Khmer into some what similar?
-What are the areas that we can learn from Artisan D’ Angkor
-What is the unique selling point of Artisan D’Angkor and discover our own USP

reflections

Second day in Cambodia~
Though we had setbacks, but we are still excited of the trip.

Today, we got to visit our "competitor" Artisan D' Angkor, another centre, that does the same thing, just that they have their own visitor centre, in which is nicely built and decorated for tourist. they even have aircon!

Artisan D' Angkor was a morale booster for me, as it gave me ideas and motivation on how far our own centre Prolung Khmer Centre can become. Artisan also started out small, thus with determination I feel that we will be able to make it, just like artisan or better.