PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin has embarked on a three-day visit to the three Muslim-majority provinces of South Thailand, specifically to promote tourism. The trip will include a range of social, cultural and economic activities designed to highlight the growth potential of Narathiwat and Yala, which share a direct land border with Malaysia, and Pattani, a little further to the North on the Gulf of Thailand.

 

That strategic part of the world has taken on new importance as part of the Thai government’s policy to strengthen intra-regional Asean connectivity and boost relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The region has been hit by conflicts with a separatist movement over several decades but the approach now is to bring peace via the same methods used to end a communist insurgency in Northeast Thailand in the 1980s, a combination of economic development and hearts-and-minds communications.

All forms of overland trade, transportation and tourism between the Northern and & Southern parts of Asean have to pass through South Thailand, putting Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani at the geographical crossroads of the entire region. Using tourism as a development tool fits in with the Prime Minister’s IGNITE Thailand Vision project unveiled last week.

 

All forms of overland trade, transportation and tourism between the Northern and & Southern parts of Asean have to pass through South Thailand, putting Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani at the geographical crossroads of the entire region. Using tourism as a development tool fits in with the Prime Minister’s IGNITE Thailand Vision project unveiled last week.

 

by TNR Staff

TOP: Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin in Pattani today, Feb. 27, 2024. Photo: Thai Rath

 

Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2024-02-28

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

Srettha Thavisin has embarked on a three-day visit to the three Muslim-majority provinces of South Thailand, specifically to promote tourism.

Thavisin better get the prices for flights more economical to and fro if he really wants to promote tourism.....