Institutional Thanks
The completed Mekong Tourism Development Project (MTDP), instigator of ‘The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’, promoted development of the tourism sector in the lower Mekong River basin countries – Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam – through infrastructure improvements, community and private sector participation, and sub-regional cooperation.
The Project focused on four areas: tourism-related infrastructure improvements; poverty alleviation through community-based tourism development; sub-regional cooperation for sustainable tourism; and implementation assistance and institutional strengthening.
‘The Guide’, published by the Mekong Tourism Development Project as part of its sustainable tourism efforts, was made possible with funding from the Ministry of Tourism, Cambodia; the Lao National Tourism Administration; the Vietnam Ministry of Tourism; and loans to those destinations from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
About the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO)
The Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO) was charged with distributing the guidebook.
Established in early 2006, the MTCO, formerly known as the Agency for Coordinating Mekong Tourism Activities (AMTA), is a collaborative effort between the seven GMS destinations of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the two China PRC provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi.
Its mission is two-fold: a) to develop and promote the GMS as a single tourism destination, offering a diversity of good quality and high-yielding sub-regional products that help to distribute the benefits of tourism more widely, and b) to support and coordinate GMS member countries in the implementation of projects identified and committed to under the GMS Tourism Strategy.
In March 2009, the USAID’s ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement (ACE) Project offered to fund and develop this website in order for responsible travelers to more easily access the content and to give responsible GMS tourism stakeholders a chance to be featured.
Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO)
5th Flr. Office of Tourism Development, Ministry of Tourism & Sports
154 Rama 1 Road, National Stadium, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Tel: (66-2) 612-4150/1.
Fax: (66-2) 612-4152.
E-mail: info@mekongtourism.org (general enquiries)
E-mail: content@mekongtourism.org (content-related enquiries/submissions)
Web: www.mekongtourism.org
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