VIENTIANE, 22 January 2013: Ministers and officials of the 10 ASEAN
nations pledged to expand tourism cooperation and continue discussions on a
proposed pan-ASEAN tourist visa that has been on agenda for close to a decade.
More than150 tourism ministers
and officials from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam attended the meeting.
Thailand was represented by a
deputy minister of tourism as Minister Chumpol Sila-archa had been critically
ill in hospital since 17 December. He passed away early Monday morning.
According to a press statement
released on behalf of the government contingency attending the ATF, ASEAN
leaders will consider the possibility of creating a single pan-ASEAN visa for
some member countries to encourage more
tourists to visit.
Leaders also agreed to put more
funding into developing tourism, source more financing from dialogue partners,
and to promote tourism in the region.
Details of how they will fund the
region’s ambitious marketing plan were not explained clearly at the press
conference.
Tourism is of particular
significance to Laos, one of the least developed countries in Southeast Asia
with few domestic industries. With a population of only 6.3 million people,
Laos hosted approximately 3.1 million tourists in 2012 just under half of the
population of the entire country.
Arrivals are expected to reach 5 million by 2015.
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