Happy New Year from travelforum.org! To get 2010 off to a flying start, I'm excited to announce that we're running a competition in which TWO lucky winners will be walking away with a prize of their local currency equivalent of 6000 Thai Baht, which at the time of writing is £110 for you Brits, $180 for the Americans and AU$200 for the Aussies! Not a bad amount to top up your holiday fund, eh?

So how can you be in with a chance of winning the money?

It's simple! All you need to do is post a minimum of TEN "useful" posts on travelforum.org any time between now and March 31st inclusive, when the contest ends. If you meet or exceed that threshold, your username will automatically go into a draw for the prize of £110/$180/AU$200/6000 Baht. A username will be drawn at random from the qualifying entries and then notified of their win by email.

Additionally, a SECOND top prize of £110/$180/AU$200/6000 Baht will be awarded by me to the Travel Forum member I feel has given the greatest amount/best quality of useful and helpful advice. So there is a real incentive for you to post often, and make your posts useful and informative for the community!

So what's a "useful" post, then? Quite simply, it's something that imparts useful knowledge, information or advice in order to benefit others in the Travel Forum community. It might be an informative reply to someone asking a question, your opinion about an issue/topic concerning one of the countries in South East Asia, a trip report of your last holiday to Asia, or a review of a hotel or restaurant you can recommend, just to give a few examples. To count as "useful", a post also needs to be unique content, and your own work. Posts such as "LOL I agree" WON'T be counted as useful posts!

If you're not already registered for the forums, you can do so here. If you have any questions or comments about the competition, feel free to post the on this special thread in the General Chat forum.

Happy posting!
Steve