(22-05-2013)
The
Thailand Travel Mart 2013 Plus (TTM+2013) to be held between June 5-7,
2013, will break new ground with two first-time events: the
participation of Yunnan Provincial Tourism Administration and the
introduction of debates to the Travel Forum.
Both
will help expand the quality of participation in Thailand’s largest
business to business event, and also raise the level of intellectual
discussion to a new high.
The
Yunnan Provincial Tourism Administration has a registered a team of 26
delegates to participate in TTM+. This is a very important step forward
as the TTM+ is designed to showcase the exciting tourism products of the
entire Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) which includes Yunnan province of
China, Myanmar, Laos PDR, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
Yunnan
is located in the lower Southwestern part of China and shares a long
border with Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar. It is also close to Thailand,
Bangladesh and Bhutan, making it an important gateway to Southeast and
South Asia. Yunnan’s 16 prefectures and municipalities have a total
population of 44 million, including 25 minority groups. Its capital is
Kunming.
Yunnan’s
unique tourist attractions include magnificent snow mountains and
glaciers in the north, vast tropical rain forests in the south that are
homes to rare fauna and flora species, the meandering and roaring “Three
Rivers On Parallel” in the west, the spectacular karst landforms in the
east and volcanoes in the southwest.
In
recent years, it has seen a significant development of infrastructure
and transportation networks. Kunming Changshui International Airport is
now the fifth largest airport in China, with connections to 10 cities
within Yunnan Province, 60 cities within China and 14 international
cities, such as Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Seoul, Yangon,
Vientiane, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Siem Reap, Mandalay, Dhaka, etc.
The
emergence of road and rail links, including the Asian Highway and the
Trans Asian Railway, will also enhance its connections with Bangkok,
Lashio (Myanmar) and Hanoi (Vietnam). River navigation along the Mekong
is also on the rise. All this will make Yunnan a very important point on
the tour package circuit.
On
28 April 2012, TAT and China (Yunnan) signed a memorandum of
understanding on promoting the flow of tourists between the two
countries.
As
for the concept of debate, it has been incorporated into the forum for
Buyers and Sellers on the topics “Creative Travel” and “DIY Tourism.”
The
first Keynote session on the topic “Changing destination perceptions
through creative travel” by Professor Greg Richards, will be followed by
a debate on the topic: “Bangkok needs repositioning through creative
tourism techniques and implementation.”
Based
in Barcelona, Prof. Richards is Professor of Leisure Studies at the
University of Tilburg and Professor of Events at Breda University of
Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. He has worked on projects for
numerous national governments, national tourism organizations and
municipalities, and he has extensive experience in tourism research and
education, with previous posts at London Metropolitan University (UK),
Universitat Roviria I Virgili, Tarragona (Spain) and the University of
the West of England (Bristol, UK).
The
second Keynote session on the topic “DIY in tourism: Dynamic Packaging,
the pros and the cons” by Mr. Frank Oostdam, will be followed by a
debate on the topic: “dynamic packaging will become the tourist’s
preferred option of buying holidays”.
Frank
Oostdam is chairman of the ANVR, the Dutch Association of Tour
Operators and Travel Agents, which has a membership of 220 Tour
Operators and 1400 Travel Agents in the Netherlands. He is leading the
ANVR team in reengineering the ANVR and its functions in line with the
changing scenario of the travel industry and overall market conditions.
One
important trend impacting the future of the travel agents community is
the future of Dynamic Packaging, a method used in package holiday
bookings to enable consumers to build their own package of flights,
accommodation, and car rental instead of purchasing a pre-defined
package.
TAT Governor Suraphon Svetasreni welcomed all these inaugural events at the TTM.
He
said, “The strong presence of Yunnan province will certainly give a
major boost for buyers seeking new destinations in this part of the
world. At the same time, the inclusion of debates is now important in
order to broaden industry discourse and provide an opportunity for such
an important issues to be discussed in a comprehensive manner”.
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