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Work coordinated to host tenth NTO



Subject: Work coordinated to host tenth NTO meeting

Work coordinated to host tenth NTO meeting

YANGON, 12 Aug-A coordination meeting on hosting the tenth National Tourism 
Organizations Meeting of ASEAN member nations was held at the Strand Hotel 
this afternoon, attended by Minister of Hotels and Tourism Maj-Gen Saw Lwin. 

Also present at the meeting were officials of the Commander-in-Chief (Army)' 
s Office, Yangon Command, Myanmar Police Force, the Directorate of Defence 
Services Intelligence, departments and enterprises related to the  tourism 
sector and officials.

In his address, Minister Maj-Gen Saw Lwin said national tourism organization 
of ASEAN member nations had hosted nine meetings with a view to promoting 
cooperation among ASEAN member nations for the development of tourism.

NTO meeting to be held in Yangon on 25 and 26 August is the tenth. Before 
becoming an ASEAN member, Myanmar, as an observer, attended the sixth NTO 
meeting in Singapore for the first time.

The seventh NTO meeting was held together with the ASEAN Ministerial Tourism 
Forum held in Cuba, the Philippines, in January 1998, and the Myanmar 
delegation led by the Minister for Hotels and Tourism attended it.

The Myanmar delegation led by the director-general attended the eighth NTO 
meeting held in Chiang-Rai, Thailand, in July, 1998.

The ninth NTO meeting was held together with ASEAN Ministerial Tourism Forum 
in Singapore in January 1999, and the Myanmar delegation led by the minister 
for hotels and tourism attended it.

Arrangements are being made to host the tenth NTO meeting at the Traders 
Hotel in Yangon on 25 and 26 August.

According to the proposal of the ASEAN Secretariat, meetings on ASEAN 
Communications Team for Tourism and ASEAN Task Force on Tourism Investment 
will be held together with NTO meeting on 24 August.

The meeting is to be attended by representatives of ASEAN member nations as 
well as representatives of ASEAN and ASEAN Promotion Centre in Tokyo. In 
conclusion, the minister urged all to contribute to hosting of the meeting. 
The meeting ended with concluding remarks by the minister. 
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