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| Bangkok - Delegates attending the first Mekong Tourism Investment Summit (MTIS) have called for streamlining and increased transparency of investment policies in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) into one-stop centres, or for procedures to be migrated fully online.
They also recommended Thailand?s tourism investment and incentive procedures be identified as a possible model for the other five countries to emulate. |
 The summit was held in Luang Prabang, Laos, between March 28 and 30. Meanwhile government representatives from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China's Yunnan and Guangxi provinces reported 29 proposed tourism policy, investment and infrastructure initiatives they said would make investments easier. The proposed projects were particularly gearing towards areas where 60 million people still earn less than US$1 a day, the public sector said.
Mekong Tourism Office (MTO) executive director, Mr Stephen Yong, said the summit represented a meaningful initiative by the private sector after the 10th and last Mekong Tourism Forum ended in March last year.
All recommendations listed at the MTIS would be brought forward to a discussion by Mekong sub-region tourism ministers at the PATA Annual Conference in Pattaya, Thailand, on April 24.
Mr Yong said most of the suggestions by the private sector were already incorporated in the 10-years GMS Tourism Sector Strategy (2006-2015). He said it now depended on how the six governments drove the strategy further. |
| Posted on 20 May, 2008, Resource from Sirima Eamtako |
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