A joint tourism caravan between Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia will be launched for the first time in Thailand Sunday, Thai Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon announced Friday. 

The joint caravan, comprising of about 30 sedans and three passengers buses, is aimed to mutually promote the tourism industry and cultural exchange, as well as to boost understanding and sound relations of the three neighbouring countries and their peoples in other areas, Mr. Kantathi told Thailand News Agency.

He said he, himself, as well as Cambodia's Tourism Minister Lay Prohas and Deputy Foreign Minister Huy Kanthoul Vora and Vietnam's Deputy Director for Tourism of the People's Committee in Ho Chi Minh City Le Nhut Tan would jointly launch the so-called 'Bangkok-Seam Reab-Phnom Penh-Ho Chi Minh Caravan' in a ceremony held at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Representatives of the three countries, including leading tour agents, members of the media and business persons – about 160 totally – will take part in the six-day caravan, which is jointly organized by the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), as well as Cambodia's Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry and Tourism Ministry and Vietnam's People's Committee in southern Ho Chi Minh City.

Joint activities on cultural exchange will be organized in every main city the highway caravan pass through, according to the Thai foreign minister.

(Source: TNA)