Vietnam-Cambodia-Thailand Sea Tourist Route to Open Next Year

A delegation of 162 representatives from travel administrations and agencies of Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand December 10 started a trip to survey a sea tourist route linking the three countries in the hope of putting it into operation in mid-February 2008, state media said.

 

The survey, which began at Rach Gia port in southern Kien Giang province, will call at tourist sites in Kep, KoKong and Shihanoukville of Cambodia and Thailand’s Trat and Chanthaburi provinces and Pattaya resort city, to assess local tourism potential and then propose orientations to tap the advantages.

 

At every destination, the delegation will work with local authorities on tourism development and host exchanges between visiting and local enterprises.

 

“This is the first sea tourist route of its kind, Le Minh Hoang, Director of the Kien Giang Provincial Department of Tourism, said, hoping that the opening will bring more tourists to Vietnam.

 

Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand have launched joint activities to further speed up bilateral tourism development in the upcoming time.

 

Most recently, tourism officials of the nations gathered in Cambodia’s Sihanoukvile August 24 to look into ways to boost the development of tourism in the three countries’ common sea area.

The second meeting of its kind is scheduled to take place in Thailand in 2008.

Vietnam welcomed more than 286,400 arrivals from Cambodia and Thailand in the first eleven months of this year. (Vietnam & World Economy)