Union Tourism Minister Shri Subodh Kant Sahai has said that MoU between India and ASEAN  would serve as the key instrument for more action oriented cooperation, encouraging both parties to cooperate in facilitating travel and tourist visit and further strengthening the close tourism partnership.   

Shri Sahai was speaking after the signing of MoU at Manado,Indonesia yesterday. The Tourism Minister expressed his happiness towards the progress made in the implementation of the work plan for the development of ASEAN-India cooperation in Buddhist pilgrimage tourism including the production and promotion of materials and documentary films on Buddhist pilgrimage in ASEAN-India.  

He said Government of India is looking forward for more joint-tourism promotion and product activities in future.  

Shri Sahai said since the number of tourist arrivals between ASEAN and India had shown steady growth, the establishment of ASEAN Promotional Chapter in  Mumbai would act as a tourism marketing and promotion agency of ASEAN National Tourism Organisation. The Minister directed the senior officials of his Ministry to report and brief him on regular basis regarding the progress of implementation of the MoU.

Shri Sahai also welcomed the forthcoming ASEAN-India car rally to be held this year.  This rally would mark another   meaningful step towards tourism cooperation and at the same time reflect the existence of  landconnectivity that would facilitate tourism exchange between ASEAN and India. 

The ASEAN-India Tourism Ministers held their Third Meeting yesterday in Manado, Indonesia in conjunction with the meeting of the ASEAN Tourism Forum.  The  Meeting was jointly chaired by ShriSubodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister of Tourism and Dr Mari Elka Pangestu, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia. 

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