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Pan-ASEAN Visa proposed to
increase regional tourism
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Date: 28 August
2003
Traveling around the Southeast
Asian region with a single visa is a possibility when there was an
initiative to adopt an EU-style regime to increase tourism.
Prime Minister Taksin Shinawatra is
expected to raise the issue at the ASEAN summit in Bali in October.
One visa could be offered to all 10
ASEAN countries or a single visa for the two or three countries best
prepared to implement the regulation.
The new regime will also bring
great opportunity to organize international sport events such as a
marathon bicycle competition similar to Tour de France, covering
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Burma. The event, proposed to be held
each November, would promote new tourism routes in the four
countries and generate income for hotels, restaurants and other
services along the routes.
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