“Your first and foremost job as a LEADER is to take charge of your own energy.” — Bob Proctor. Sam believes no matter if those are electronic devices or human beings, need a recharge. To what he has noticed through his 15 years of life in office. People spend at least one hour before they get ready to start the first work. The excuse of turning on the computer or working tools taking time, does not mean anything now in this Industry 4.0 age. Yet the energy recharging and refreshing.
“If You are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” – Chinese Proverb. Sam known as education change influencer. On the long journey he was striving to gain education and pass on to his communities with impressive success. Sam is proudly acknowledged the way he has been doing is the right way. Therefore, in whatever his activities are, educating, and knowledge sharing are enclosed.
“Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.” ― Confucius / Benjamin Franklin. People never believe until they see and experience by themselves. From the experiences he got and the result he gains in his self-development, Sam got overwhelming support from both his communities and the outer world. His ambition is to inspire and empower broader of how a little thing could impact to a big change.
Team Building & CSR Projects
Teambuilding and CSR projects are still on the challenging trend in Cambodia. Most of everyone DMC and event company tries to use this market niche on their specialties but they are still far below the competency. Seeing this Challenge and with the years of experience in teambuilding and event management focus, Sam has set Team building project as the core business product.
Special Dining Event Venue
Nothing is too new and secret to one expertised agency in term of special and exclusive dining event venues. Everyone knows what and where they are. However, having the right one to the right customers sometimes, it comes to a great challenge. Sam and his team use their areas of expertise, experiences, and the risk assessment knowledge to present to the clients with choices and their pros and cons.
Meeting & Convention Space
Who has better knowledge and experience than the meeting and conference space providers themselves. However, there are still gaps that you may need assistances from the independent event consultants. SI team has the best knowledge of the event venues, meeting and conference spaces in the destinations. What is even more important, they understand the level of the team competency in delivering the sold products.
Travel Related Tours & Activities
There are so many tours and activities providers in Cambodia from hotels to tour operators and agencies. This made it hard for the event and incentive house to decide who specialize in what. Sam and his team have placed themselves in specialized tour and event management industry for almost 20 years, therefore Sam is the best to give you the most reliable comments on what to do and who can deliver what.
We Learn & Build
We Turn and Validate Dreams to Truths
We become part of the client’s team by in-depth learning about their need as what they want, company profile, and how the company works.
We are here to plan, develop and manage the event by looking after the details like ground and field work and heavy lifting, etc.
We take full responsibilities in event implementation and deliver flawless event flows
We care about the clients’ event success along with a complete event closing. Any small challenge we found will be taking into serious consideration for the next events.
SAM INSPIRE is pleased to share with you the top best dining venues and event spaces information with a validation after Covid-19 situation has been relaxed.
Be a reliable and trustworthy destination consultant company in Cambodia with its business baseline to be socially and environmentally contributed. Sam Inspire Cambodia is pleased to feature the full meaning of CSR and the CSR programs as following:
As of May 2022, travel in Cambodia is seemingly back to normal. With the significant success of Covid-19 vaccination rate at up to 93%, 15 millions out of 16 millions of the total population. Sam Inspire is pleased to share with you 5 special updates related to travel tips and tourism updates in Cambodia in this late April and early May 2022 as following:
First time online visa applicant may find yourself in a great jeopardy after you have completed everything and your credit card has been charged of the amount you submitted but there is no email containing the eVisa. No worry, here is what you needed to do after you get the email of evisa application and payment success.
Most important point ever is about TO’s / DMC’s overseas partners. Insurances for most developed countries are very important to them. Before decided to work with any local DMCs and Tour Operators, they must have observed and inspected whether these DMCs and TOs hold any insurance or appropriate insurance. It is true that some tour companies might be lucky to have trusted and good partners that they are not serious on this but not all. If they don’t have this already published on your public site like website, offline display, or even attached on the email communication, they would definitely have lost some businesses or partners already even before those contacted them for the very first time.
This article is solely Sam’s experiences from using different banks here in Cambodia. Every bank has its strength but toward Sam’s personal view as a user, he loves to share which one is his favorite Best Bank in Cambodia. This article will also feature a few other important views including total list of banks in Cambodia actively operated in 2021 and a few more insights.
When talking about Video marketing, YouTube is the number one free platform that comes up first to any marketers. But how to develop your business marketing with videos fast with cost effectiveness. Sam Inspire is here to share some tips and walk you step by step with this YouTube Videos for Business Marketing guide article.
Creating a professional looking website seems cost a lot of money but that isn’t true. Create 2021 Professional Website is free or at an affordable cost. To my experience, having a few websites just cost me less than USD 200 per year. What you need is having a little basic knowledge of how to build a website. What is even better for this 2021, most of every website is Drag and Drop, if you know how to use Word Document, you are good to go. It is true that there are tons of sites offering frees solution to build a website. However, to my recommendation, you better to invest a bit into a professional world.
Teambuilding is just a simple term and most event organizers take it for granted. For those who are serious about this activity, team building is one of the most stressful jobs in the event management, there specialized skills are required. Here SAM INSPIRE is pleased to share some key skills that you need to develop yourself frequently to meet the market need of the event success.
My name is Samnang Chhon known as Sam. Greetings from Siem Reap, Angkor, Cambodia. I write to update you on happenings around Siem Reap as we enter a period of hope and recovery, especially for those individuals and communities that are connected to tourism.
A new chapter begins
I am announcing my post Covid-19 business incubator of a Destination Service Management, SAM INSPIRE Cambodia. It will focus on Team Building, CSR projects, Event Management, Outdoor Learning for School trips and Film Stringer Services in Cambodia. As many of you know these are areas of my expertise.
The business was relaunched in September 2022 after Covid-19 has relaxed, with a few times of successful Danone Nutrition Face to Face Conference in Siem Reap, one time TurnUp Business Pitching of 500 Global event in Phnom Penh, a Hi-tech double Hybrid event “ECA Partner Meet 2023” of Education Centre of Australia event taken place at Sofitel Angkor hotel in Siem Reap and an Amazing Race Team Building and CSR Program for MB GROUP from Singapore. Not just about corporate clients, SAM INSPIRE has fully organize an Official Technical Site Visit and Presentation of a New International Airport in Siem Reap which is a State backed company. A part from the event management, SAM INSPIRE is also actively coordinating a few Documentary Filming for International Production company and TVs, especially from European countries. One of those is a Travel Documentary production “Verwunschene Tempel und schwimmende Dörfer – Faszinierendes Kambodscha” by a German production company.
In parallel with my event business, I have also partnered with Wine Store B2B as well as Luxury F&B Catering service in Cambodia. These partnerships, provide pricing power and flexibility for your Cambodian event needs. Furthermore, I have partnered with my Teambuilding developing partner, Mr. Rolf Graf, founder of BEUNITE in Thailand.
Personal update
I take this opportunity to share my story of life during the past few difficult years. I hope to bring you encouragement.
After the pandemic began in March 2020, my travel company battled through daily cancellation of group and individual trips. Faced with the inevitability of the crisis I have decided to leave and start a new life adventure. My first survival job involved working in the construction of a friend’s Project (The RICE). With no skill or experience and little earnings it proved difficult due to lockdowns.
As you may know I am the founder of a small charity, All For Kids Organization, known as Angkor Kids Centre, supported primarily by friends in Germany known as Helpucation e.V. These friends knowing my situation generously proposed a job for me to work for AKC and from their own pockets supported me for which I am grateful. I was able to develop the TESOL curriculum and teach a English classes. With the management of the office and classroom now optimised, I continue my teaching my advanced classes in the evening.
I then began a short-term contract, now ended working for the international non-profit organization called Plan International Cambodia. The year was a significant one for my development, formalizing my social and business work with international standards of work and management in social governance, security and logistics procurement. Within this busy time, I have also completed and certified with a 4-month-long Professional Diploma Digital Marketing online course run by Asia Pacific Institute of Digital Marketing (APIDM). This course helps me with my business as well as allowing me to share my knowledge to the growing generation ready to be taught these skills in Cambodia.
Right after the border reopened, I made my overseas trip to the neighbouring countries, Singapore and Thailand. In Singapore, my trip was hosted by Mr. Tan Peng Ann, the founder of Sangkhoem Khmer organization (SKK), a charity running the school project Ta Keo in eastern Siem Reap. In Singapore, I was invited to join the management committee of SKK. I met also the President of Rotary Club Mount Sophia, Mr. Wong Song Hong. As part of Rotary International’s new policy I was offered the role as Asean member. After Singapore, I visited Thailand, invited by Mr. Rolf Graf to see his Tree Planting in a rural village of Surin, Northeast of Thailand. Here we worked on teambuilding, CSR (Corporeal Social Responsibility) and ESG (Environmental Social Governance).
Looking back on these years on what I have experienced and learned, I am refreshed. As a family we learned to take a rest and enjoy what we have. My two children are healthy and happy. My son, Karuna is back to grade 8 and my daughter Meta is entering into her grade 4. They both learn basic English at my free English school, Angkor Kids Centre.
Lastly, I hope that you will keep me in mind for any event, team building, conference, incentive trips or your personal visit to Cambodia, especially to Siem Reap. I will be more than happy to assist or partner with you to prove the best of Siem Reap. Here I would like to make this presentation for you to recall a bit of Cambodia Destination products as following:
"Working to live, not living to work." Sam, the founder of Sam Inspire Cambodia. We are at SAM INSPIRE Cambodia do every best to make the team feel home and life. With this belief, work performances always flow the best and most productive which result in happy living.
“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” - Henry Ford
Sam Inspire and the team itself are not alone, we are actively develop our skills and networks three different sources to validate our products, code of conducts and the international trends.
For almost two decades, Samnang known as Sam, has been a noteworthy leader in the event and travel sphere in...
Cambodia Event and Travel Frequently Asked Questions FAQs
Even though event planning can be difficult and stressful, leaving it in the hands of a professional means hiring an event planner. After that, you may unwind knowing that every contingency will be covered and that your event will be planned, organized, and executed with meticulous attention to every last detail and accuracy. Asking detailed inquiries is crucial when selecting an event planner. You must be fully aware of the entire event planning procedure and know exactly how your funds will be used.
SAM INSPIRE are experts in event planning. To ensure that events are effectively coordinated and that clients are satisfied, we constantly communicate with venue management, suppliers, and vendors. To ensure you get the best service possible, we’ve included some frequently asked questions in our event planning FAQ for event planners (along with our answers) as following.
What are SAM INSPIRE areas of expertise?
Our backgrounds are from Destination Management Company (DMC) which provided M.I.C.E. services (Meeting, Incentive, Convention/Conference, Event/Exhibition). While the market demand for Cambodia is mostly on Meeting, Conference and Incentive, therefore these travel related sections are our master. Nevertheless, we have a section on our SAM INSPIRE website that you can navigate to is OUR EXPERTISED SERVICES, we have listed. For other concerns, please drop us a link for humanized support.
Why choosing SAM INSPIRE as your local event support in Siem Reap?
SAM INSPIRE is the only specialized travel and event consultancy based in SIEM REAP, ANGKOR while most other event companies located in Phnom Penh, 314 km from Siem Reap. SAM INSPIRE is a small boutique company, mostly all events are managed by the owner, Sam which is a big plus to make sure the events are executed smoothly and timely without cross-checking and approving from many steps. SAM INSPIRE mission is not just to complete the event successfully but create a memorable experiences for both participants and the organizers.
How to get to your hotel / event venue from the airport?
With SAM INSPIRE Meet and Greet services, we will arrange a welcome guide or escort in addition to our driver. The welcome person will have the welcome sign to meet and greet you right at the terminal exit door where you already get warm hospitality to the destination of your events. There is a taxi association at any airports where you can easily rent a van taxi, sedan taxi, motorcycle taxi, tuk tuk taxi from 15$ to 5$ per vehicle with driver per way (prices for Siem Reap before the new airport operating, upto 16 October 2023). When the new Siem Reap Angkor International Airport opened from mid October 2023. You are expected to pay Car sedan/Suv: 40$, Van: 50$, Mini-coach (20 seats): 70$ and Coach (40 seats): 90$, all prices per way.
Is visa needed for traveling to Cambodia?
For the citizen of ASEAN member countries, you are offered a 30-day free visa, travellers from other countries can easily get a Visa on Arrival (VOA) at any airport for only USD 30 or apply online for an Evisa following the directions on the website here. If you apply for an Evisa, you must pay USD 36. Visit the official evisa website for more. With SAM INSPIRE to run the logistics for your event, we can also arrange a Fast Track Imigration Service where all the participants just grab their luggage and get escorted to come out seamlessly. All the visa and immigration tasks will be done by the officers on your behalf.
What Areas are the Best for Event?
There are three main destinations featured on the travel and event list in Cambodia. Phnom Penh, the capital, commercial and core administrative city in Cambodia is the hub for event with extensive of venue choices and access to many event and AVL suppliers. However, Phnom Penh is just another city to anywhere in the world, while SIEM REAP home to the World Heritage Site of Angkor temples complex is the true destination to tell where your event are happening in Cambodia. The third destination is the coastal area with KEP and Sihanoukville. However, event facility and companies are very limited where you have to charter from Phnom Penh mostly.
What are the available venues in Siem Reap?
There are only hotel-based conference space in Siem Reap. Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra by Accor is the only International Five-star hotel that has capacity up to 400 seat in Theatre or 200 seats in Classroom. For local local there quite a number of hotels to cater to your need and style. For instance, Sokha Siem Reap Convention Center could accommodate up to over 3500 seats in Theatre and over 1000 seats in Classroom. There are not all, leave us a message, will send you all the hotel and event venue fact sheet.
What People Credited Sam
Here are some comments of the happy teambuilding and event customers that Sam has organized and co-organized in the past.
SimCorp
The whole event was managed professionally and efficiently... The travel, accommodation, and social events in the evenings including cocktails and dinners in local restaurants were organised perfectly. In the event planning Sam was always available to help answer questions and was on hand throughout the event to ensure everything ran smoothly. The team building sessions with Rolf were fun and engaging and everyone loved the tour around the temples. Comments from the team included: “Best kick-off ever” and “venue, schedule, balance was all well planned and executed.”
Oliver Johnson
General Manager
International SOS
Dear All, On behalf of our 80 people at International SOS and of course thank you so much from Dr Myles and I and Angela, for your amazing help, dedication to the task, and outstanding service last week. All our people were amazed and thrilled and all commented how lovely and helpful and professional you all were at the Sofitel Angkor and at Sam's team. We had the best week, and the conference was a huge success and it was a lot to do with your great attention to service. At the Sofitel the food, quality, rooms, service, staff and the conference set up was first class. And Sam, the organisation and support by you and your team was superb! Congratulations on your hotel, company, staff and yourselves! It was a great experience we didn’t want to leave! From Dr Myles and Michael! Kind Regards Michael Gardner, Group Director Medical Services
Michael Gardner
Group Director Medical Services
Manitou Group
While planning a company event, we were looking for options to make our 70 guests discover authentic Cambodia lifestyle and have an enjoyable tour of Angkor Temples. Sam was an obvious partner from the beginning since he was very responsive, smart, communication was smooth and easy, and he was the only one able to customize his offer to meet our needs and special requirements (in comparison with other local agencies that we contacted). When D-day arrived, Sam’s team shown a very good organization. It is not easy to handle such a big multicultural group especially when agenda is very tight, but Sam did it! We went for a tour to a floating village, and meet the people living there. That was an amazing experience. We were humbled and had a good life lesson! But the best part is that it was really authentic, a memorable authentic experience that I believe, only Sam and ANT can provide! Besides this amazing tour, we went for a temple tour to Angkor Wat, Bayon and Ta Phrom. Again, the perfectly smooth organization from Sam’s team allowed us to visit 3 temples without rushing in a half day where all the other agencies say this is not possible. Our guests were all really happy! On behalf of Manitou Asia & Manitou Group, I would like to say a huge thank you to Sam again for being such a good partner to us during this event. Your knowledge of your country, and your customer focus are 2 precious gifts that will surely lead you to success! I strongly recommend him to anybody who wants to have a memorable experience in Cambodia with no trouble! Mathieu Procureur HR & Marketing Projects Specialist, APAC
Mathieu Procureur
HR & Marketing Projects Specialist, APAC
Our Key Clientele
Here is a list of our satisfied and loyal key clients who have worked with our Sam Inspire from before until this updated and refreshed brand.
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Team bonding are fun, engaging and interactive activities designed to improve teamwork in the organization. Team bonding is often organized as part of an off-site or company outing.
Meaningful CSR Programs
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects are designed to support rural communities and at the same time rise awareness of environmental and social issues and to engage business executives in meaningful encounters with the local population.
Meeting & Event Management
Meeting and Event management is the miscellaneous service offered to make the clients’ event run smoothly. This includes the accommodation, meeting rooms, meeting props, land logistics, AV production, staging, concierge service, sightseeing.
Organizational Change Training
Organizational change training is the overall effort of preparing your organization for the changes and challenges of tomorrow and to build a meaningful and healthy workplace. It includes learning workshops, assessments, team building, outings and consultancy.
Get Inspired with Sam's Stories & News
Sam shares his insights regularly in this blog section. Most of these are about his professional background, the journey that he gets inspired and knowledge that would benefit readers. All these reflecting the 3 E's as he moves. Anything made me hard to find, I will post them here, said Sam.
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Get inspired with Sam's Social Work
Sam has founded an local non-profit school offering free Education in rural Siem Reap area next to Angkor temples. Follow his journey and inspired to be happier for yourself.
Since you don't lose any to have Sam counted to your teambuilding, event management, and film stringer service need, why not giving him a try. Sam is so pleased be part of your upcoming event projects in Cambodia. It will be his great pleasure to listen to your needs and challenges. With his broad and extensive destination and industry knowledge and to avoid any barriers of technical communication. It's worth having him to give you a free consultation by just fill the form on the right or Telegram / WhatsApp him to the under underneath number.
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