Letter from Mr.Ronald Fream and David Dale - Golfplan Company
Letter No. 1:

Date: Tuesday, Sept.27th, 2005

Any site or sites you can find with nice seafront, dramatic islands and unspoiled beaches, go for it. Thailand continues to add tourist golf but some seaside resorts are overbuilt or almost as if city, not peaceful nature.

Lankawi Island in Malaysia has good small upmarket hotels and some golf. Bali needs more affordable public seaside resort golf but land prices are every high.

Sites of 60 to 100ha on a large island are best for golf of 18 hotels for tourists. Then add in two or three hotels, three-star, four-star and distinctly local-natural in style and form. If the island can become "one resort-one island" with cottages, hotel, 18 or 27 hotes of golf, scuba and other activities such as lifestyle spa and fine dining, you could do a major force development. This could be 200ha more or less of island. This island can not be too steep with hills, but some contour is better than flat.

On the most desirable island, 200ha, 300ha or so, one boat jetty to arrive, have a smallish five-star exotic cottage hotel, somewhat larger four-star hotel, and a three-star hotel or apartment-condo hotel. Different price points but all can use several different restaurants. All guests pay same fee for golf.

Look at a total of 300-400 bedrooms and twenty-seven hotels of golf. You could even downsize and have 60 or 70 five-star, 125 three-star bedrooms. This could still fill 27 hotels, plus spa, boating, scuba, sunbathing.

The Thai approach ends up with too many rooms is one place and the tropical splendor, tranquility element is lost. Keep things natural and protect the island environment to promote eco-holiday tourism.

If you can get one island, one resort with golf you will have a very attractive international destination.

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