Winning Travel Images and Stories Now on SoutheastAsia.org

BANGKOK, 17 May 2010 – The April winners for the www.SoutheastAsia.org content contest have been announced. Both Editor’s Choice and People’s Choice awards for travel photography and travel writing are now online on the increasingly popular travel portal for Southeast Asian destinations. The winning entries represent the finest and most popular entries from the first [...]

Mekong Tourism Forum Opens in Cambodia

7 May 2010 – The Mekong Tourism Forum opened today in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with private and public sector tourism representatives gathering to assess the opportunities arising from the new road corridors that are opening up the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS). In his opening remarks to over 170 attendees at the opening session today, H.E. [...]

New Website Makes it Easy to Plan Your Next Southeast Asia Trip

Bangkok, 22 April 2010 – Planning and booking travel to Southeast Asia has never been easier. The ASEAN Tourism Association’s new Southeast Asia: feel the warmth destination campaign features a dynamic interactive website at www.SoutheastAsia.org, which allows visitors to research, plan, book, and comment upon their holidays in Southeast Asia. SoutheastAsia.org’s rich content is supplemented [...]

Share Your Southeast Asia Adventures and Win

Bangkok, 22 April 2010 – Never has there been a better time to share your favorite snapshots and stories from your travels in Southeast Asia. The ASEAN Tourism Association’s new www.SoutheastAsia.org travel portal is running a writing and photography contest with US$15,000 in prize money up for grabs. Entries close on 15 June. The inaugural [...]

The Challenges for India Outbound Tourism to ASEAN

BANGKOK, 2 April 2010 – The tourism industry in ASEAN is going weak at the knees and falling in love with India’s rapidly expanding urban middle class. If pesky issues of visas, food choices and prejudices can be overcome, the infatuation will grow into a long-term marriage of dependency and mutual respect. Furthermore, Indian travel [...]

Lonely Planet Joins New Southeast Asia Tourism Campaign

BANGKOK, 22 February 2010 – The latest Lonely Planet content is now featured on SoutheastAsia.org, the new tourism website for the region created by the ASEAN Tourism Association. SoutheastAsia.org is now the primary medium for ASEAN’s new global marketing campaign, “Southeast Asia: feel the warmth.” The new site aims to promote Southeast Asia as a [...]

New Strategic Alliance Creates Powerful Online Platform for Small Tourism Operators in ASEAN

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, January 28, 2010 – A new strategic alliance announced this week will give small and medium-sized tourism operators in ASEAN a powerful online presence, even if they do not have a website. The initiative is the result of strategic collaboration between Creative Advances Technology (CAT) and the ASEAN Tourism Association [...]

ASEAN Launches New Tourism Campaign

“Southeast Asia: Feel the Warmth” and SoutheastAsia.org to target medium and long haul markets BRUNEI  DARUSSALAM, 25 January 2010 – The ten ASEAN countries today launched a new tourism campaign built around the slogan, “Southeast Asia: Feel the Warmth.” A dynamic, new, interactive website, SoutheastAsia.org is being created as the primary marketing tool. The new [...]

New Strategic Plan for ASEAN Tourism Under Way

BANGKOK, 2 December 2009 – A new strategic plan for tourism in the ASEAN countries of Southeast Asia will be prepared to help the region achieve an integrated ASEAN Community by 2015. The plan will recommend a wide range of policies and reforms in ASEAN’s tourism marketing, branding, product development, human resource development, quality standards, investment strategies, [...]