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Emergency tourism meeting today Regional tourism experts and officials will gather on Thailand's tsunami-hit Phuket island today ahead of an unprecedented emergency meeting of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) executive council. About 100 experts and officials from 30 countries will to attend the talks to thrash out a so-called Phuket Action Plan aimed at accelerating a tourism revival in Indian Ocean countries hit by the December 26 tsunami. Participants will discuss aid to the hardest-hit countries in terms of rebuilding hotels, restaurants and shops destroyed in the disaster, as well as marketing the destinations to wary travellers. They will then present the plan to the executive council of the Madrid-based UN specialist agency for tourism for approval on Tuesday. "This conference is going to be important because tourism is a cornerstone of the economies for a lot of these tsunami-hit countries," the UN Development Program's regional press officer Cherie Hart told AFP. (AFP) |
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