The reflection for blogs and web usng in the tourism industry!

Over the years, blogs and web 2.0 is becoming a key component to successful of many companys, especially in the Travel and Tourism industry.


Recently, many attractions and travel agency in Hong Kong were started to invest many resources to initiate a offical website, in order to introduce and promo their products or services to Netizens through their website. From a marketing perspective, it’s being part of market and having visibility of conversations relating to the company's brand or products. I think this is an effective and extensive channel to let everybody know more about their company. For example, I have visited the Ngong Ping 360 Limited offical website again recently, they have developed their webpage become more functional and convenient for guests to visit. People can get many informations such as pricing, opening hours, promotions,online booking, events and all the things about the Ngong Ping cable car by visitng their offical website. Besides, in my point of view, I think the most innovative things are they have been providing a live webcast of cable car condition to guests and they have created a mobile apps for smartphone or iphone holder. The live webcast of cable car condition can let the guest consider that they whether want to go or not when bad weather. For the mobile apps, people can get many information about the Ngong Png cble car by just simply download the application in their smartphone or iPhone and they can visit the website in everytime and everywhere. The innovative marketing planning can help the company make more revenues and opportunty.


For the feeling of usng this blogging tool for this assignment, may be this is my first time to using blogger, I feel that it's not easy to use or create a blog archive. For example, I can't resize the photos to fit the size for interface of this blogger. Besides, I suggest that bloggers can cooperate with Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel, Access, etc...to let the blogging become more functional.

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Tai O Fishing Village

Tai O, one of the 'must see' attractions and remaining fishing villages in Hong Kong. Located at the northwestern part of Lantau Island, also known as the ”Venice of the East” was once the largest inhabited settlement on Lantau Island.

Tai O Museum

The Tai O museum which was established by Rural Committee. The museum in order to help tourists or visitors to know and understand more about the history of Tai O with a variety of exhibits from Tai O's past such as salt making tools, fishing tools and wedding ceremony of Tanka people

Lunch in Tai O seafood restaurant

Tai O have many restaurants with Tai O's traditional cuisine and freshness seafood are provided with live fish, crab, fried rice with salted fish and steam pork with shrimp paste. Freshness seafood is guaranteed as you can select from the restaurants. Whether you like steamed, fried or grilled seafood, try it cooked with Hong Kong-style!

Pink dolphin

An unforgettable experience with a luxury cruiser for the world’s pinkest dolphin watching activities. More and more people are coming to Hong Kong in order to see the dolphins, so the dolphins are contributing significantly to the general tourism industry.


Please refer to the below linkage for the details of dolphin waatching tour:
http://www.hkdolphinwatch.com/

Tai O wet market

Browsing in the stalls and shops around Tai O is always a lot of fun. There have a lots of stalls with dried seafood products such as shrimp pastes, fish maw and salted fishes. Many travelers like to purchase some fish paste and salted fish as a souvenir as well as Hong Kong resident. Also, you can taste the yummy Hong Kong style street-side snack such as mini bowl pudding, cha guo and Chinese herbal tea in the Tai O market.

Chinese stilt-house

Tai O's stilt-houses are huts built on stilts in a narrow river channel and one of the most distinctive characteristics of Tai O. The original form of stilt houses is a fishing boat. As fishermen are living on the boat, the boat parking along the bank gradually becomes a shelter. Now we can see that stilt houses are supported by bamboo and concrete pillars which have plunged into the sea bed. You can imagine that the original form of the oldest stilt houses, were lifted up by several columns of bamboo. What amazing it is!

Kwan Tai Temple

Kwan Tai Temple is the oldest temple in Lantau island. This temple honors Kwan Tai, the God of War and Righteousness and was built in the reign of Hong Zhi (1488 – 1505) during the Ming dynasty. In real life, Kwan Tai was a general renowned for his loyalty and is said to protect devotees from evil.

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Tian Tan Buddha Statue

The Tian Tan Buddha is a large bronze statue of the Buddha, located at Ngong Ping. Also known as the Giant Buddha, it is the world's tallest outdoor seated bronze Buddha. Tian Tan Buddha is located nearby the Po Lin Monastery. It symbolizes the harmonious relationship between man and nature, people and religion

Po Lin Monastery

Po Lin Monastery is the most popular Buddhist temple in HK. Po Lin Monastery is now well developed with a number of structures including the Mahavira Hall and the Heavenly King Hall.

Vegetarian Lunch in Po Lin

 

The Chinese vegetarian cuisine is a tradition in food culture heritage from old China. Po Lin Monastery is famous for providing high quality vegetarian food in Hong Kong. Nowadays, the chefs can prepare the vegetarian food with a taste similar to typical Chinese food.

Friendly Reminder:
Guests have to purchase the meal coupon at the counter which located in the Po Lin Monastery and there's no seat reservation.

Opening Hours for  the Vegetarian Kitchen: 11:30 am to 4:30 pm

(photo source:  http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2095582)

Wisdom Path

Wisdom Path features an arrangement of 38 giant wood columns measuring 8-10 metres long and 1 metre wide to showcase calligraphy by master of Chinese studies Professor Jao Tsung-I. These wood columns are arranged in a "∞" pattern.

(photo source:  http://www.tourism.gov.hk/english/current/current_heart.html

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Lantau Island is the largest outlying island in Hong Kong and there have much difference type of attractions that separately located at the Eastern and Western part on the island as following:

Tung Chung Fort

The Tung Chung Fort is the best preserved fort in HK. During Qing Dynasty, the pirates, including the famous Cheung Po Tsai, chose the bay of Tung Chung as their base and made use of the fort due to its important military value of defense. There have 6 old cannons still intact, each resting on a cement base with enclosures made of granite blocks.

(photo source:  http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tung_Chung_Fort_Cannon_(Hong_Kong).jpg)

Ngong Ping 360 cable car

The Ngong Ping Cable Car connects Tung Chung and Ngong Ping. The 5.7km cable car journey offers visitors to enjoy the 360 degree views of South China Sea, Hong Kong International Airport, Lantau North Country Park, etc.....

Ngong Ping Crystal Cable car equipped with a glass bottom, the Cabin is designed to feast your eyes with the real 360 degree of view. You can enjoy and feel the magic of the unlimited view of the South China sea and the grassland slopes underneath your feet.

Ngong Ping Village

It is set on a 1.5 hectare site on Lantau Island, connecting with Ngong Ping Cable Car station , Tian Tan Big Buddha Statue and the famous Po Lin Monastery. This amazing cultural themed village to reflect the cultural of the Ngong Ping area.

Ngong Ping Piazza

Ngong Ping Piazza has 4 components including the new Pai Lau, Bodhi Path, Di Tan and a Chinese landscaped garden. The new Pai Lau and the Chinese landscaped garden are built in the Northern building style of the Qing Dynasty to match the style with Po Lin Monastery.


Friendly reminder:

The easily way to Tung Chung is take the bus "S1" from the bus stop located at the Hong Kong International Airport. The bus is cost HK$3.5 and the headway is around 10 mins each.
Except the cable car, you also can take the bus number 23 to Ngong Ping  by around 45 mins bus journey and it would cost HK$17.2 per person.

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