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11 December 2009 NEW CAVE TOUR HIGHLIGHT AMERICA’S SECRET WAR IN LAOS
VIENGXAY, LAOS -- A new audio tour launched November 18th in a remote corner of Indochina brings alive the story of America’s secret war in Laos. Between 1964 and 1973 America, which was at war with North Vietnam, secretly dropped more bombs on neighboring Laos than were dropped on Europe in the whole of World War II.
11 December 2009 Mekong Arts Festival Takes Flight
200 artists and media practitioners descended on Phnom Penh for the weeklong Mekong Festival beginning on Monday November 30.
11 December 2009 Bus Service Expanding from Northern Thailand into Vientiane
Bus service from downtown Nakhon Ratchasima to Vientiane
11 December 2009 New Airport Delayed in Cambodia
The French Embassy has requested the Preah Sihanouk International Airport delay
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15 September 2009 Ho Chi Minh City 5th International Travel Expo (ITE HCMC)
The Mekong Region is again on display as Ho Chi Minh City hosts the 5th International Travel Expo. This year’s editions will be held from October 1-3 at the Phu Tho Exhibition Center.
04 August 2009 MTCO Speaks at PPP Workshop in Hanoi
MTCO Executive Director Mason Florence focused on private sector tourism development under the GMS Tourism Sector Strategy to 2015, discussed case studies from the respective GMS members, and outlined possibilities for partnership between the MTCO and key regional players in destination marketing and promotion.
20 July 2009 MTCO Talks Development, Marketing at Ecotourism Event
MTCO Executive Director Mason Florence was a panelist during the special session entitled "Development & Marketing of the Greater Mekong Sub-region", July 17, at the World Ecotourism Conference 2009 (WEC2009) in Vientiane. The session provided industry leaders with "a strategic framework to plan for the sub-region and to enable them to understand and respond to strategic trends and developments".
14 July 2009 Mason to Talk Development, Marketing at Ecotourism Event
MTCO Executive Director Mason Florence will be a panelist during the special session entitled “Development & Marketing of the Greater Mekong Sub-region”, July 17, at the World Ecotourism Conference 2009 (WEC2009) in Vientiane. The GMS session is designed to “provide industry leaders with a strategic framework to plan for the sub-region and to enable them to understand and respond to strategic trends and developments”.
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11 December 2009 Bus Service Expanding from Northern Thailand into Vientiane
Bus service from downtown Nakhon Ratchasima to Vientiane
11 December 2009 Japan-Mekong Summit Wraps Up
Japan pledged US$5.6 billion in new aid to the Mekong region after concluding a summit aimed at strengthening its partnership with the Southeast Asian region.
11 December 2009 Thai - Cambodia spat threatens to derail Trans-Asian Railway
The diplomatic crisis between Thailand and Cambodia is threatening completion of the final link in the $15 billion Trans-Asian railway running from Kunming to Singapore. At risk is a 6-kilometre piece of track needed to connect Sisophon in Cambodia to Aranyaprathet in Thailand.
11 December 2009 ADB Approves US$10 Millon Loan To Cambodia
(RTTNews) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a US$10 million loan to Cambodia, designed to ease the effects of the global slowdown and improve Cambodia’s financial system. This is part of the ongoing ADB second sector program support which assists the country in further developing its financial system.
The tourism sector was designated as one of the 11 flagship programs of the GMS Economic Cooperation Program in recognition of the important contribution it could make toward socio-economic development and the conservation of natural and cultural heritage resources.
The GMS tourism strategy was elaborated under ADB technical assistance, at the request of the 6 countries to prepare within the overall 10 year GMS strategic framework, a strategy to optimize the benefits of sub regional tourism in a more environmentally and socially responsible ...