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This story proves that one doesn’t need a trillion dollars to mix it online with the big boys in your industry!

The ‘Responsible Tourism Guide to the Mekong’ at ExploreMekong.org/responsible has won the 2009 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award in the website category. And it cost little more than US$1,000 to design and build.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement (ACE) Project developed the site as part of its technical assistance to ASEAN- and Mekong-region tourism cooperation and integration.

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A new extension to MekongTourism.org and ExploreMekong.org, inspired by ‘The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’ will be launched into cyberspace by the end of March

In order to expand the potential readership of the book and the geographical coverage of its valuable content, the ‘Mekong Responsible Tourism Guide’ web section will be developed for the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO) by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement Project (ACE).

MTCO Executive Director Mason Florence welcomed ACE Project’s initiative. “This is a terrific way for global citizens to learn about and comment on responsible tourism activities in the Greater Mekong Sub-region,” Mr Florence said. “We’re hopeful that this will help build the foundation for a new print edition of the guidebook, which will contain information about responsible tourism activities in all six countries of destination Mekong.”

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