GIA Laboratory Bangkok and GIA Thailand Campus Booth
in Bangkok Gems & Jewelry Fair# 41st
GIA Laboratory Bangkok and GIA Thailand Campus shared a booth at the GIA’s presence in Thailand was well represented at the recent 41st Bangkok Gems and Jewelry Fair that was held from February 27th - March 2nd 2008. GIA’s booth was twice the size of previous years and expressed the full range of GIA’s offerings to Thailand and the region. These included both Laboratory Services (Diamond Grading as well as Colored Stone and Pearl reports and Research) and the fill package of GIA’s Educational Programs. The booth also showcased GIA new retailer’s package.
The booth became a one stop GIA information center offering attendees the chance to win prizes, discover new services offered by the GIA Laboratory Bangkok and learn of the new educational seminars and the many courses and programs offered at the GIA Thailand Campus. For an energizing and enlightening break, coffee and cutting edge GIA gemological videos were offered on a complementary basis to help visitors and exhibitors rest their tired limbs.
Visitors to the GIA Booth were excited and amazed to learn of the many different varieties of services available from the GIA Laboratory Bangkok. The GIA Diamond Dossier® - now available in Bangkok - generated a great deal of interest; the GIA Diamond Dossier® is the diamond grading and inscription registry service from GIA Laboratory for diamonds weighing between 0.15 to 1.99 ct on the GIA D to Z grading scale. It includes the laser inscription of a diamond's unique GIA Report number on the girdle.
In addition to the immense interest shown with respect to GIA Diamond Grading Services, local jewelry manufacturers and international colored stone dealers showed considerable interest in GIA Pearl Services and welcomed the introduction of GIA Colored Stone Identification Services to the local and regional market place. Many visitors to the GIA booth commented on how long they had been eagerly waiting for GIA to make laboratory services readily available and easily accessible on an international basis.
In addition to information on laboratory services; twice a day at the GIA Booth a new seminar, which gave attendees the chance to win a GIA course, was launched. This new seminar, “Podcasting Gemological Information by GIA”, combined short but information packed video footage focusing on the subject of diamonds with a voluntary quiz. Participants who took part in the quiz and obtained a score of 100% were given the opportunity to be entered into a daily lucky draw with a chance to win the famous and world renowned GIA Diamond Essentials Course, just two steps away from becoming a GIA Accredited Jewelry Professional.
These short GIA videos delivered current and informative educational material on diamond related subjects such as, Separating Natural from Treated Black Diamonds, Identifying Diamonds Treated by Multiple Treatment Processes and Identifying Internal Laser Drilling to name but a few of the many practical based GIA educational videos on offer. In addition to contemporary cutting edge GIA video seminars historical and theoretical movies on diamond were also shown daily to add a variety to the participant’s complementary coffee and biscuits.
The lucky winners of the daily GIA Thailand Podcast Quiz were :
Thantima Puttiwarakul (Thailand)
Linda Kennedy (New Zealand)
Katia Sukvataya (Russia)
Mary Jo Rushin (USA)
The winners and runners up for the GIA Thailand Podcast Quiz included students from GIA Carlsbad, California, GIA Thailand, GIA Italy and from the local trade and international visitors to the 41st Bangkok Gems and Jewelry Fair.
GIA Thailand Campus and GIA Laboratory Bangkok look forward to the opportunity to serve visitors at the next Bangkok Gems and Jewelry Fair between September 11th - 15th 2008.
For more information on services available at GIA Laboratory Bangkok, please visit www.giathai.net
For information on up coming GIA Thailand events and GIA Thailand educational courses, seminars and corporate training packages please visit www.giathailand.com
