Thousands of dollars’ worth of travel prizes will be given away to travellers by sponsors of the Explore Mekong Giveaway and the programme will also give away tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of sponsorship opportunities to social enterprises across the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).
The Explore Mekong Giveaway is a public-private partnership between the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO) and FreePlayo.com. A memorandum of understanding was signed today.
Mexico was selected to be the official host country for World Tourism Day (WTD) 2014 and Burkina Faso for WTD 2015. The respective themes will be “Tourism and Community Development” for 2014, and “One billion tourists, one billion opportunities” for 2015.
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According to the latest news of Bagkok Post, Myanmar has allowed foreigners holding its visas to freely choose to travel to the country via any of its six entry channels.The channels cover the three land border crossings in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district, Tak’s Mae Sot district and Ranong’s Muang district and three air entry ports through Myanmar’s airports in Yangon, Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw.
Taleb Rifai was reelected for a second term as UNWTO Secretary-General (2014-2017).
The announcement was made today at the 20th Session of the General Assembly in Livingstone, Victoria Falls.
The confirmation follows the decision by the 95th session of the UNWTO Executive Council (Belgrade; Serbia, 28 May) to recommend Mr. Rifai as a nominee for the Secretary-General post for the period 2014-2017. In accordance with UNWTO statutes, his candidature was presented by Jordan, of which Mr Rifai is a national.
Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB) in partnership with the Commission of the City of Kuching North (DBKU) has secured the 13th Asia Pacific Orchid Conference and Show (APOC) to be held in 2019. The winning bid was a collaborative effort between local hosts: DBKU, Orchidwoods Company, Commercial Orchid Growers Association of Malaysia (COGAM), Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK), the Malaysian Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB) and the Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB).
→ read more...Two of Thailand’s top state enterprises involved in promoting travel and tourism have joined forces to boost the number of air travellers to the kingdom and meet the national objective of better spreading the benefits of tourism nationwide.
Mr Suraphon Svetasreni, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand and Mr. Pongsak Semson, Vice Chairman and Acting Managing Director, Airports of Thailand PLC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see the two organisations pool their resources to achieve a broad level of tourism promotion goals.