China’s province of
Yunnan was participating for the first time to the TTM+. The province wants to
be more integrated with Mekong packages. However, it will have to work out a
simpler procedure for visas…
BANGKOK - It took a decade for the Chinese province of
Yunnan to be back with a booth at the Thailand Travel Mart.
The Province is in fact dreaming of getting more
benefits of the rapid development of tourism in the Greater Mekong subregion to
which the Province is a member as well as Guangxi, a province bordering
Vietnam.
Yunnan Province Tourism Development Committee deputy
general director, Wen Shuqiong, explained during a press conference Thursday,
that it was the first time for Yunnan to participate at the annual event in its
current format and that the province wanted now to capitalize on its status as
a gateway to the ASEAN.
Yunnan is in fact the best connected to ASEAN. It is
part of the network of trans-Asian highways linking the province to Laos,
Thailand up to Singapore. “Travellers can already come by car to Kunming and
Yunnan”, indicates Mrs. Shuqiong. Yunnan is looking especially at attracting
travellers from the West who are looking for culture and ecotourism. While
considerable efforts have been done to link better Yunnan to the rest of ASEAN
with highways as well as a brand new airport, the visa issue remains a major
handicap to integrate the destination to a region of borders get increasingly
easy to cross. So far, the idea of creating a common visa for the six Mekong
countries had not found the slightest echo within the Chinese government.
“Ideally we would like to see if they could be a
possibility to have a special visa for travellers visiting the Mekong
sub-region. We could then promote us more actively with other GMS countries to
the rest of the world with the rest of the GMS”, says Mrs. Shuqiong. Yunnan
Tourism Development Committee is currently seeking to talk to Yunnan governor
to see if a special regulation could eventually be adopted by the Chinese
central government. Over 200 million of domestic trips are recorded to Yunnan
every year.
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