HO CHI MINH CITY, (PNA/VNS) -– Five Southeast Asian countries, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, are targeting a double-digit growth rate of international visitors annually by 2015 under the theme “Five Countries – One Destination”, according to Hoang Tuan Anh, Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism.
In the press conference to announce the joint statement of the first Meeting of ACMECS Tourism Ministers organized on Wednesday in Ho Chi Minh City, Tuan Anh, the meeting’s chairman, said the five countries aimed to attract 50 million foreign investors and 10 intra-regional million visitors by 2015.
“In the meeting, the ministers emphasized that the growth rate of intra-regional visitors should be higher than that of international visitors,” Tuan Anh said.