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Dragon Boat : 2008 Sponsorship Levels:

 SPONSORSHIP

 Phuket Dragon Boats are focused in three main areas.
 COMPETITION, COMMUNITY and CORPORATE TEAMBUILDING

 Our annual regatta the Phuket International Dragon Boat Festival(PIDBF/ April 2009) is our main Competition and sponsors may wish to review the opportunities offered in the following:

 Benefits are numerous and are stated in the contract.

At this years World Championships in Penang, there were over 170 teams at the event. Teams from all
over the world were represented in this hugely popular sporting activity. Media coverage included
International TV, regional television, radio and of course International press and local press.
Phuket’s Thai Dragon Boat Team competed in the World Championships ( July 29 - August 4th 2008) for
the first time. The team was genourously sponsored by Hotel Travel Network, Phuket Gazette, Firefly,
TAT and Sail in Asia. The Team won the right to race in Penang by winning the first Phuket dragon boat
competition in December 2007.
Phuket Dragon Boats are seeking to bring an IDBF International competition to Thailand next year in
early April 2009 as a result of the success of our innaugural competition.(400 paddlers 19 teams and
an audience of 1500 people). We believe that many large companies, would be well placed to gain
huge advertising potential and community recognition from associating with an International mass
activity event with such potential. Phuket dragon Boats first International ‘outing’ was at the World
Championships. Our core events management team participated and researched the event.
We intend to host a similar event . The Phuket International Dragon Boat Event (PIDBF), in Phuket, in
April 2009. Invitations to all 170 of the teams participating in the World Championships were issued
almost 9 months in advance of our planned event April 2009.

We are now working on this the 2nd Phuket International Dragon Boat Regatta which will have
between 30 and 100 teams taking part and we expect an audience of 3-5000 people. This Second
Dragon Boat Festival will take place at Nai Harn lake. Buoyed up by the tremendous support and
community spirit of the last event we have been working on realising our ambitions.The event will be
much bigger than the inaugural event. TAT have agreed to sponsor us and are fully supportive of our
aims. Our objective now is to find a Title Sponsor and several Major Sponsors as well as Media and
Party Sponsors. These sponsors will see the potential, the excitement and the community benefits of
supporting this repeatable sporting and cultural event. We see the site at Nai Harn lake as a huge
opportunity to bring a 3 day festival to the island. Besides the huge number of participant teams and
audience taking part in The Regatta we see this as a chance for Phuket to show off its qualities. Entertainment, music by the lake, fireworks, traditional Thai dancing, modern dance, classical and jazz
music at twilight and of course a Thai Pop concert with local bands such as Job to do. The carnival
atmoshere can be developed with fancy dress costume parades, children performing on stages and a
host of cultural activities that would entertain all.

Dragon Boating is a mass activity with the emphasis on bringing people from diverse backgrounds
together in an activity that sows the seed of fellowship and cameraderie. Dragon boating is the
epitomy of Sport for All. Nai Harn lake is a place where we can forge existing relationships with local
people and bring them both business and a community event that will be hugely popular.

Phuket Dragon Boats is looking for support from companies and individuals with vision and energy.
We are at the start of something extraordinary. We need sponsors who recognise the ‘big picture’ and
will help us to realise and form it. Our sponsors will be our active partners.

The question we pose is “Do you want to be part of it?” Then the community stuff .........

Many thanks

Michael Downard