Announcement: UNWTO Educational Seminar on Tourism Development in Mekong-Triangle Countries
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The importance of tourism development in the Mekong River Basin countries has been gathering international attention in these years. Among the Mekong Basin Countries, especially the three countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam) are forming Mekong-Triangle and tourism promotion is an important pillar for their economic development.
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Asia-Pacific Tourism Exchange Center (APTEC) and the Tokyo Development Learning Center will co-organize the Seminar on Tourism Development in Mekong-Triangle Country on the theme of “Sustainable Tourism Development in Mekong River Basin Countries and Eliminating Poverty through the Tourism Promotion” for representatives from both public and private tourism-related sectors in these countries.
This seminar is an endorsed event to commemorate “Japan-Mekong Exchange Year 2009*”.
Date
18-19 August 2009
Venue
Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
World Bank in Vientiane, Lao PDR
Vietnam Development Information Center, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tokyo Development Learning Center, Japan
Organizer
The Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Asia-Pacific Tourism Exchange Center (APTEC)
With the Cooperation of
The Nippon Foundation
Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA)
Under the Auspices of
Japan Tourism Agency (JTA)
Ministry of Tourism, Cambodia
Lao National Tourism Administration
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Vietnam
* In order to promote further exchanges between Japan and Mekong Region Countries (Kingdom of Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Union of Myanmar, Kingdom of Thailand, and Socialist Republic of Viet Nam), it was decided at the Japan-Mekong Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in January 2008 to celebrate the year 2009 as “Mekong-Japan Exchange Year.”