Controversial Luxury Dinner
April 8th 2008 04:16
Society guests were puzzled as they ate a sumptuous meal of ten courses cooked by the finest European chefs at Bangkok's Lebua Hotel. The meal cost about $325.00 (AUD)
The purpose of the dinner was to raise funds for an elephant camp in northern Thailand - the hotel gave $155,000 to provide water sanitation and books for its school. However, the guests failed to really understand why the hotel flew them to the elephant camp for the day and the hotel gave them this expensive dinner. They felt confused about how the funds donated would be administered.
Elephant handlers are so poor that they sometimes have to beg on the streets so that they can feed their elephants. The hotel wanted the guests to glimpse poverty in Thailand and inspire an altruistic streak.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? WAS THIS A GOOD IDEA?
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