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Chiang Mai Shopping Secrets - Inside Tracks for members - Purchase the book
Information for advertisers - The bargain hunter shopping programme - Other publications

Introduction
How to use this book
Product overviews
Shopping tips
Typical map
Enquiring minds
Product showcase



Overview:

Chiang Mai’s Shopping Secrets aims to become a powerful international promotional tool for the Chiang Mai arts and crafts industry, and aims to provide the tourist visitor and/or professional buyers with direct access to the vendors, many of whom do not enjoy prominent locations with access to the tourist market.

It provides well written information, educating shoppers on the full range of products available to them.

The book sales price allows us to subsidise the advertising rates for small vendors so that for the first time, they may have the benefit of low cost, but effective advertising, reaching potential buyers long before they plan their itineraries for Thailand.

Breaking away from the conventional guide book formula in which authors promote places they like, which within a short time become ‘discovered’, we rely on the Inside Tracks membership to post comments to the CMSS website notice boards, for the benefit of their fellow members, and to keep the participating vendors ‘honest’.

Membership to ‘Inside Tracks’, the online support for the book provides buyers and sellers a forum to showcase their product before, after, or regardless of whether they meet in Chiang Mai. It also provides e-commerce solutions to trading that will provide both parties with a platform for growth.

Finally, for those who have purchased the book and then visited Chiang Mai, there is an opportunity to win valuable prizes through taking part in an online post Thailand visit survey, aimed at monitoring standards within the tourism industry.

Summary of contents

1.

Format - This is a 280 page, A5 sized high quality production that is by far the most comprehensive publication on the Chiang Mai Shopping attraction ever produced. We are confident that those who buy the book will recoup its modest purchase price in savings within the first hour of shopping.
2.
 Product information - There are write ups on some 20+ product categories from antiques to wickerwork.
3.
 Tips - There is a page of ‘shopping tips’ for each of the products described.
4.
 Areas covered - There are full page descriptions of 15 different market areas covered with information on their particular focus.
5.
 Vendor listings - There are some 3000 vendors indexed by product category, and each cross referenced to a location showing the business icon and company name on a specific map.
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 Market area maps - There are 40+ easy to use maps with major road names in Thai & English and conveniently placed landmarks covering the 15 market areas.
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 Detailed product knowledge - There is a section called ‘For Enquiring Minds’, dedicated to educating the buyer with the aid of well written in depth features on a selection of the products that Chiang Mai is most famous for.
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 General information - There are general information write ups on a range of shopping, or after shopping related activities. They cover everything from buying fake goods to shipping options, and obtaining VAT refunds for goods purchased.
9.
 City & provincial maps - There is a large fold out map that allows you to see the city, and the location of the 15 markets at a glance.
The reverse side of the map covers the provincial north for those who wish to explore the region beyond the city and its environs.
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 Supporting tour programmes - The book carries advertising for the ‘Chiang Mai Bargain Hunter’ shopping programme, under which individuals or small groups hire minibus transport for a half or full day, then follow their own shopping itinerary, based on the information and maps provided in ‘Chiang Mai’s Shopping Secrets’.
Chiang Mai Shopping Secrets - Inside Tracks for members - Purchase the book
Information for advertisers - The bargain hunter shopping programme - Other publications

The following and more are available to you in Chiang Mai Thailand:

Antiques, Silver, Teak & Hardwood Furniture, Wood Carvings, Thai Silk, Cotton & Hemp, Laquerware, Ceramics & Celadon,Textiles, Gold, Leatherware, Saa paper, Home Décor, Bronze, Handicrafts, Antiques, Silver, Health Products.