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Foreign Roadshows to Kick-Start Andaman Tourism
The Ministry of Tourism and Sports is to launch one of the largest tourism marketing drives in the Thai history through a series of foreign roadshows aimed at restoring tourist confidence in the country's southern Andaman coast.
Speaking today after a meeting of key government figures and tourism operators on the southern resort island of Phuket, Tourism and Sports Minister Sontaya Kunplome said that both the public and private sectors were unanimous in the belief that the nation needs to reassure foreign tourists that 80 percent of tourism destinations in the Andaman region remained unaffected by the tsunami.
Pledging an injection of Bt2 million for the government`s tourism drive, Mr. Sontaya said that Thailand would conduct a tourism roadshow in Malaysia at the end of this month, before taking the roadshow to Germany in March and Russia in April.
Deputy Finance Minister Varathep Ratanakorn, meanwhile, confirmed that the Finance Ministry would seek to assist tourism operators affected by the tsunamis through a debt moratorium scheme and joint investment with the public sector.
Phuket 6/1/2005
