Mekong Sub-region cities promote tourism

Four cities in the Mekong Sub-region including Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Yangon and HCMC will jointly promote tourism in Japan and South Korea.
According to the HCMC Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, this activity is one of the main issues to be discussed at a meeting of the four cities taking place in HCMC on March 20-22.
Together with the tourism promotion program, the cities will discuss programs about student exchange and connecting enterprises, banks and other suppliers to create opportunities for tourism development.
The first joint tourism promotion program will take place in Japan this May and in South Korea next year. Meanwhile, the student exchange program will be held this July.
The meeting in HCMC next month aims to carry out the joint statement of the cities’ mayors on tourism development cooperation. The statement was signed last September at the International Travel Expo in HCMC (ITE HCMC 2012).