The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a new project
called ASEAN to Thailand in which some press agencies in ASEAN were
invited to discover the amazing of Thailand in this month.
The
project is one of several tourism promotion activities to enhance Thai
tourism as a dream destination among ASEAN members, especially as all
Southeast Asian countries are now moving towards the integration under
the ASEAN Economic Community framework, which will come into effect in
late 2015.
Under the project, media members from ASEAN countries
such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand were
participated in the trip to three old towns in central provinces of
Ayutthaya, Ang Thong and Suphan Buri, some of which have played vital
roles in the history of the ASEAN region.
The tour route has been
carefully selected to showcase the central provinces of Thailand that
provide great examples of ASEAN’s old towns.
The key objective
is to promote the awareness of Thailand as the ASEAN dream destination
with the rich cultural heritages as well as the variety of tourist
attractions, tourism products and services that Thailand has been
offering, governor of TAT Thawatchai Arunyik said.
The agreement
on the AEC integration signed by Thailand and other ASEAN member
countries will see the Southeast Asian region become a single market
with free flow of products, services, investment and labour across all
member nations.
Tourism is one of the service sectors that is
being promoted via regional cooperation to make this region a single
attractive destination for international travellers.-VNA