Visitors to a temple in Bangkok, Thailand (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)Bangkok (NNT/VNA) - The Department of Tourism plans to boostThailand’s tourism through promoting community-based tourism with betterfacilities in local attractions and villages.
The Director-General of the Department of Tourism, Anan Wongbenjarat, opened acommunity-based tourism network seminar on Thursday at the Tawana Bangkok hotel,where he gave a lecture on the department's roles on tourism development.
Mr. Anan said his department this year will further promote community-basedtourism and its standards, namely tourism management by community members;economic, social, and livelihood management; cultural heritage conservation andpromotion; sustainable natural resources and environment management; tourismservices quality; and public relations promotion.
The Tourism Department is aiming to push Thailand as a global quality tourismdestination with a balanced growth based on Thai-ness, using tourism growth toencourage social and economic growth, as well as better income distribution tovillagers.
The department will also be working with community tourism attractions andtourism villages to improve existing facilities to better accommodate visitors.
The Tourism Department is expecting gross income from tourism in 2019 will beat 3.41 trillion baht, a 10 percent increase from 2018 projection at threetrillion baht. – NNT/VNA
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