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CHAMPASSAK
TO DEVELOP TOURISM POTENTIAL
In an attempt to generate
income for Champassak province, the Party Committee of the province has
given priority to setting out the tourism development plan by making
surveys and collecting detailed information, aimed at drawing domestic
and foreign tourists to the province.
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Vat Phou |
Following the new policy
comprehensively under the principles of the Party, Champassak province
has paid more attention to improving the economic infrastructure under
the new economic mechanism appropriately by means of applying
market-oriented mechanism closely attached with broad cooperation with
other countries, attracting more foreign investment, promoting family
economy of farmers, improving and expanding markets to remote areas.
The province will turn itself
into a strategic unit turn districts into planning and finance
units, turn villages into the implementing unit by working closely with
more local people and continue to build the plans starting from the
family unit in order to market the internal economy grow continuously.
Presently, the province as well as people in
Champassak, are preparing to cater for numbers of tourists flocking to
Vat Phou for it's unveiling as a world heritage at the upcoming festival
in 2003. Vat Phou dates back some 1,500 year's.
Presently, Vat Phou is drawing
more domestic and foreign tourists. If you have a chance to visit it,
you will experience something wonderful and amazing. Each year, when
March in the Lao calendar comes, the Vat Phou festival is organized and
people of all ethnic groups both in the country and coming from other
countries arrive to worship at Vat Phou.
ATF 2004
VENUE CONFIRMED AS VIENTIANE
The Capital city of Laos,
Vientiane, has been confirmed as host venue for the ASEAN Tourism Forum
2004, a change from the earlier stated venue of Pakse.
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Vientiane |
In August, Laos, a first-time
ATF host, appointed Navitas Management, the events management subsidiary
of National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (NATAS), as event
manager. At that time, the southern town of Pakse was named as host.
CEO of Navitas Management, Robert Khoo, said the
change came after careful consideration of both venues.
"We presented to them the pros and cons of each city, and Pakse had
a lot more cons than pros. We were advising that some of the areas vital
for the show were the accessibility, airlinks and communications.
"Vientiane is no problem.
It doesn't have a convention centre, but that is being built at the
moment. It's a matter of rescheduling the completion of the
building," said Khoo.
Moving the show to the capital
made Laos' hosting task a much more comfortable one, he said.
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