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Source: Bangkok Post
The Tourism and Sports Ministry is helping Thai tourism operators and professionals prepare for increased job mobility throughout Asean from 2015.
The ministry is preparing training courses to upgrade the skills of Thai professionals to ensure they can go to work in other Asean member countries without problems.
If the curricula prove successful, Thailand may propose them as a common standard for the bloc, said permanent secretary Sasithara Pichaichannarong .
Thailand is committed to labour mobility under the Asean Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS) in 2015, when professionals from member countries will be able to work throughout the association’s grouping.
“We want to make sure that Thailand is ready to join AFAS. We aim to push our curricula to become a model for Asean community and hope they will accept it,” she said.
The ministry is now awaiting the 200-million-baht budget from the government to push forward the Asean Mutual Recognition Arrangement on Tourism Professionals (MRA) next year.
The tourism skill-enhancement curricula, to be completed by 2013, will consist of 240 courses. At present, the first four courses for bellboys, waiters, travel consultants and ticketing managers have been completed and registration will begin next year.
The ministry will work with Dusit Thani College, Eastern Asia University, and Suan Sunnandha Rajabhat University in designing the four courses.
Ms Sasithara said the ministry will also set up a MRA committee to supervise the project and certify trainees who finish the courses in the future. It will also publicise the project among tourism professionals in Chon Buri, Khon Kaen, Phuket and Chiang Mai soon.
Asean members previously signed the Asean Comprehensive Investment Agreement which came into effect early this year.
The agreement allows members to invest and open restaurants and four- and five-star hotels in member countries. They can hold up to a 51% stake in such ventures in 2010, rising to 70% in 2015.
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