Book Your Room on Ecotourism Laos

Ecotourism Laos has teamed up with www.laos-hotel-link.com to offer an online accommodation booking service. Site visitors can now reserve rooms in Vientiane, Luang Prabang and Vang Vieng to fit any budget and taste, from US$5 bungalows and guesthouses to upscale boutique hotels and riverside villas. Champasak accommodation will be available in November.

This hotel booking engine is part of Ecotourism Laos’ Cost Recovery Plan, which seeks to engage the private sector to help maintain the site

Book your room.

UNWTO Endorses Vientiane Declaration

In a letter to LNTA Chairman H.E. Somphong Mongkhonvilay, World Tourism Organization Secretary General Taleb Rafai said the UNWTO fully endorses the Vientiane Declaration on Ecotourism in Developing Countries, and will disseminate the Declaration among its members and through its website, http://www.world-tourism.org/.

Mr Rafai said: “This Declaration reaffirms the principles and guidelines developed by UNWTO during the International Year of Ecotourism 2002, providing fresh recommendations to enable stakeholders to not just advocate the principles of sustainable development of tourism, but also to deliver on the vision and goals of the World Ecotourism Conference in an effective manner.”

Read the Vientiane Declaration