Quang Tri tourism connects with Laos and Thailand 2023
Participating in the workshop were Mr. Hoang Nam - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Provincial Tourism Development Steering Committee; Representatives of leaders of a number of departments, divisions and branches; with the participation of more than 40 guests from typical travel enterprises and units of Laos and Thailand; nearly 50 provincial tourism service enterprises; along with a number of media agencies in the province and a number of social network site administrators with a large number of visitors and interactions.
This workshop program has attracted the attention of many Lao and Thai enterprises who want to learn about historical culture and eco-tourism in the province, especially sea tourism. The workshop was organized with the goal of strengthening demand for tourism development on the East - West Economic Corridor (EWEC) according to the policy of the provincial leaders, in order to increase the number of international tourists coming to the province.
At the conference, representatives of the Quang Tri Provincial Tourism Association shared and introduced the potentials and strengths of destinations in the province, especially introducing a number of sample tour programs "Experience Quang Tri Beach". ” on “02 weekends” or “03 days 02 nights tour program” to propagate and promote connections with Lao and Thai enterprises to attract customers to stimulate international tourism.
Next, the Workshop also heard a presentation that attracted a lot of attention from businesses, which was: "The current situation and solutions to overcome difficulties for right-hand drive vehicles in Thailand" to tourist destinations in Quang Tri province" by leaders of the Department of Transport of Quang Tri province.
Mr. Hoang Nam - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Provincial Tourism Development Steering Committee speaking at the Seminar
Speaking at the conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nam said that the East - West Economic Corridor plays an important role in the strategy of linking localities of four direct beneficiary countries in the Mekong River Subregion. Mekong. Governments of countries on the East-West Economic Corridor focus on promoting economic and cultural exchange activities, especially considering the development of trade, services, and tourism as both a driving force and a goal in development strategy.
With the bridgehead position towards Vietnam, Quang Tri is honored to represent the Central provinces to introduce to friends near and far the rich culture and heroic revolutionary tradition of the nation; Introducing tourism products, potentials and advantages of the province to develop trade, tourism and services.
Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that although there have been many efforts between localities and parties, the cooperation in tourism development on the East - West Economic Corridor in general as well as the cooperation and connection between Quang Tri travel and tourism units and companies with travel agencies and companies in Laos and Thailand are not regular, fragmented, and not commensurate with the tourism potential and strengths of the country. each locality, each region.
In particular, cooperation and links in tourism have almost been interrupted and broken after nearly 3 years of being affected by COVID-19, and need to be resolved soon. To strengthen links and cooperation in tourism development between Quang Tri and Laos and the Northeast region of Thailand in the coming time, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested tourism associations and travel associations of provinces in Laos and the region to The Northeast region of Thailand is interested in strengthening connections to bring tourists back to the sea and typical tourist destinations in Quang Tri province.
In the opposite direction, it is recommended that travel companies in Quang Tri province focus on connecting with travel partners in Laos and the Northeast region of Thailand to exchange guests, contributing to bringing common benefits to all parties, developing tourism development and local socio-economic development. The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Quang Tri Tourism Association regularly update and supplement specific tourism products and announce tourism stimulus programs to domestic and foreign travel companies.
Assign the Department of Transport to urgently develop a comprehensive plan to propose removing obstacles for Thailand's right-hand drive vehicles to travel to tourist destinations in Quang Tri province and submit it to the People's Committee of Quang Tri province for consideration and work with Vietnam's central agencies in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Assign Quang Tri Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Agency (IPA) to continue developing specific activities to strongly promote promotion and advertising with localities on the EWEC and the Para-EWEC parallel corridor on the basis of MOU are signed inside the agenda at the conference.
Introducing typical OCOP products of Quang Tri province.
Also within the framework of the Conference, to advance cooperation in tourism development between Quang Tri (Vietnam) and provinces and cities of Laos and Thailand. The Quang Tri Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Agency and the Quang Tri Provincial Tourism Association signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote and link tours with the Regional Tourism, Trade and Industry Association Northeast Thailand and Savannakhet Province Travel Association.
Signing the Memorandum of Understanding for tourism promotion and linkage.
Within the framework of the Conference, the Organizing Committee arranged displays, introducing typical OCOP agricultural products of Quang Tri province, tourism programs, routes of travel agencies, and discount policies of mobile business prices to attract customers.
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