Joint hands to attract more tourists to Laos

Joint hands to attract more tourists to Laos

 (KPL) The Lao Association of Tourist will create favourable conditions to attract more tourists by putting advertisement process via website, brochures, print media and other tourist place.

The move is to ensure the strategic implementation of the Visit Lao Year 2012, all hotels, guesthouses and restaurants should bring logo of Visit Lao Year 2012 and other activity that will be arranged for tourists in the whole year, said President of Lao Association of Tourist, Mr Bouakhao Phonsouvanh, last week. However, the infrastructure to support tourism, including hotels, guesthouses and restaurants will also be continued improving, he commented.

�Number of foreign tourists visiting Laos is currently noticed to gradually surge, which our country is a new destination of tourists in Southeast Asia but the tourism service is limited,� added Mr Bouakhao. �In order to attract more tourists come to visit Laos in the Visit Lao Year 2012 by focusing on featuring culture, tradition, nature and history that are unique character of nation.�

The Lao Association of Tourist in cooperation with the Department of Advertising and Tourism Promotion and other relevant sector have discussed and laid out a guideline on improvement of hospitality service as the international standard.

They have unanimously agreed to step on the infrastructure to support the tourism including roads access to tourist places, tourist signs and information.

Coupling with the improvement of other accommodation are hotels, guesthouses, restaurants, transport vehicles, guides, receptionist, driver and hotel with food. But the most significance is security and saving tourists� lives.

To magnetize tourists who have traveled in Asia and then enter Laos this year, the advertisement and publication via logo of visit Lao year and other activity in the whole year of 2012 on website, posters, brochures and other print medias, Mr Bouakhao went on.

Currently, the number of tourists visit Laos has constantly grown, which averaged 25% yearly. It obviously noticed the number of tourists in 2010, amounting to 2.5 million and 2011 estimated to 2.6 million.

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