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HA LONG BAY, VIET NAM – The ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) concluded on the 18th of January 2019, with ASEAN Tourism Ministers updating attendees with progress updates for the region’s sustainable travel and tourism sector. Revealing the continuous growth in 2018, the ASEAN region welcomed more than 129 million visitors, an increase of 7.6 per […]

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PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION30 January 2018 ASEAN Recognises Its Best Sustainable Tourism Products Seventeen winners in rural and urban products category in nine Southeast Asian countries have been awarded for sustainable tourism excellence ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Award Winners receive their awards in Chiang Mai, 26 January.[Download this image and versions of this release in Word & […]

PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION26 January 2018 ASEAN Tourism Ministers Stir the Pot for Gastro Tourism in Southeast Asia for 2018 Robust tourism results for 2017, and plans for gastronomic tourism in 2018 among the highlights of ATF 2018 and the 21st ASEAN Tourism Ministers gathering Weerasak: a lot of tangible progress; united ASEAN Tourism Ministers; […]

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION 28 September 2017 Philippines and Thailand Host ASEAN Plus Three Tourism Youth Summit 2017 The climax of five years’ cooperation on youth tourism development between ASEAN, China, Japan and Korea takes place in The Philippines and Thailand Tourism students study best-case examples from Thailand and The Philippines as part of the […]

PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION6 September 2017 Tourism Authority of Thailand Gears Up to Make Travex at ATF 2018 a Success Tourism Authority of Thailand Gears Up to Make Travex at ATF 2018 a Success Tourism Authority of Thailand Gears Up to Make Travex at ATF 2018 a Success TRAVEX at ATF will be organised in […]

Singapore, 24 August 2017 – The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) jointly unveiled today a unified brand, Passion Made Possible, to market Singapore internationally for tourism and business purposes. Launched by the Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) S Iswaran, and supported by the Ministry of Communications and Information […]

Islamic Tourism is increasingly becoming an important global trend, with a market of more than 50 Muslim countries with no less than 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide. About one-fifth or 350 million of Muslims live in non-Muslim majority countries such as India, China and the UK. Therefore, there is a need to develop more diverse and […]

PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION1 June 2017 Major exposure planned for twenty winners. Applications close 15 August 2017 The theme of the first ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Awards is nature-based tourism. (Download images here) Sustainable tourism operators in Southeast Asia can now enter the new ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Awards (ASTA), which have been launched as part of ASEAN’s […]