THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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TAT introduces cultural heritage routes of SEA

TAT introduces cultural heritage routes of SEA

Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a new guidebook and website designed specifically for special interest travellers wishing to visit the region's most prominent UNESCO World Heritage Sites, using Thailand as a hub and launching pad.

 

Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a new guidebook and website designed specifically for special interest travellers wishing to visit the region’s most prominent UNESCO World Heritage Sites, using Thailand as a hub and launching pad.
 “These cultural icons are playing a major role in the modernday policy objective to link the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).  The planned creation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 will mean greater financial and economic integration, and tourism and culture will figure very highly in this integration process. Thailand has been assigned to prepare a roadmap on tourism and air transport integration, which is consistent with the TAT policy to focus on promoting tourism with our neighbouring countries," said TAT Governor Suraphon Svetasreni.
 Listed on the guidebook and website www.tourismthailand.org/ExoticUsakhane are many of the monuments, temples and palaces built over the centuries by the inhabitants of “Usakhane” which means “Southeast Asia” in Thai.
 In Thailand, they are the Hhistoric City of Ayutthaya, Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns, and Ban Chiang Archaeological Site. In Cambodia, Angkor and Temple of Preah Vihear. In Laos, Town of Luang Prabang, Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape. In Burma, Kingdom of Pagan. In Vietnam, Complex of Hu Monuments, Hoi An Ancient Town, and My Son Sanctuary. In Indonesia, Borobudur Temple Compounds, Prambanan Temple Compounds, and Sangiran Early Man Site.

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