We're not a tourist guide and we don't have time to go around looking up hotels, shops, travel agencies, etc.

There's alot of businesses but we don't want to advertise them on our site. We won't achieve anything by doing that, only they will.

I agree with BorSonJai, your main purpose to have a website is to have people come in here to visit your site.  Once you have a lot of people come in here after you followed BorSonJai suggestions, then you go out and ask those hotels and tour agencies and tell them that you have a website that Khon Lao and another people visiting all the time.  You tell them that you can advertise for them if they want to sign up for contract for 6 months or a year or simply give you commission every time their customers mention Laopride.com.

I think you should take up BorSonJai suggestions. Otherwise, keep doing what you have been doing and get a same old result.   

I actually like the site the way it is. Other sites become too political or too much advertisement. If those restaurants and hotels want to advertise, then they can make their own website and advertise. I like this site cause it's real and it's about lao people in laos, and not lao americans who think what's best for laos, I mean they don't even live there yet they talk like they know. The suggestion sounds like a good one but there are sites that already try to save the world like: http://lao voices dot com
I like to come here and ask questions about stuff that happens in laos, not try to criticize why. I don't want laos to be like the US cause I live here now and I don't think it's that great and that's why I'm moving to laos. I think it is hard for lao people to understand good will such as what was mentioned cause the society is not developed to that level. When it is one of the poorest countries in the world, people got to think of themselves first in order to survive, but here in the US, we take that kind of stuff for granted like unemployment insurance and welfare. I remember eating at a restaurant in laos and we didn't finish all of our food which is typical in the western world, but there, they would consider you a fool cause you ordered it and couldn't finish it so you are a fool for wasting money. If I cleaned the plates here, they would think I was cheap and stingy for eating every last crumb. I know many people always criticize this "lao mentality" but if you lived in a country that was ruled by an oppressive communist regime for 30 years without any social or economic development, I think you would be the same way since you wouldn't know how the outside world works. The feeling I get when I am in laos is that money is higher than a person. People cannot realize a higher potential when they can't even afford the basic necessities of life. Look up "Maslow's Hierarchy" and you will understand what I mean.