3. ASEAN Air Transport
Liberalisation Agreements
• ASEAN Multilateral Agreement of the Full Liberalisation of
Air Freight Services (20 May 2009)
• ASEAN Multilateral Agreement on Air Services (20 May
2009)
• ASEAN Multilateral Agreement of the Full Liberalisation of
Passenger Air Services (12 November 2010)
4. Characteristics of ASEAN Open
Skies Agreements
• No limitation on capacity, frequency and aircraft
• Without directional or geographic limitation
• Serve behind, intermediate, and beyond points and points
in the territories of the Contracting Parties on the routes in
any combination and in any order
• Transfer traffic from any of its aircraft to any of its other
aircraft at any point on the routes
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6. Growth in Intra-ASEAN
International Seats Offered by
ASEAN Carriers (2003-2014)
Source: Source: CAPA - Centre for Aviation with data provided by OAG
7. Engagement with Dialogue
Partners
• ASEAN-China Air Transport Agreement (24 Jan 2011):
• Protocol 1 on Unlimited Third and Fourth Freedom Traffic Rights
Between Any Points in Contracting Parties
• Protocol 2 on Fifth Freedom Traffic Rights
• ASEAN-ROK Air Services Arrangement – Drafting Agreement
• ASEAN-Japan Air Transport Agreement – 1st
Meeting held on 15-17
October 2014 in Nagoya, Japan
• ASEAN-EU- 1st
Meeting held on 3-5 December 2014 in Brussels
8. Weekly Services between
ASEAN and China
1-7 Mar 2011
•Cities in China: 19
•City pairs: 65
•Frequency: 774
1-7 Mar 2015
•Cities in China: 36
•City pairs: 112
•Frequency: 1609
9. ASEAN Framework Agreement
on Cross-Border Transport of
Passengers
Background
•Facilitate greater people mobility within ASEAN: one of them is through the facilitation of inter-
state passenger land transportation.
Benefits
•Cross border facilitation of the transport of passengers by road will lead to an increased flow of
people through facilitation of seamless passenger traffic and a reduction of transport costs within
ASEAN
•Promote, develop and enhance tourism, investment, trade and cultural exchange among ASEAN
Countries
Progress
•CBTP is currently being drafted for signing
11. ASEAN Travel and
Tourism
Account for
4.6 percent of ASEAN GDP
Directly employ 9.3 million people
Indirectly support 25 million jobs
102 million international tourists
(2014)
12. MRA TP
Signed on 12 November 2013
Objective: to facilitate mobility of Tourism
Professionals
Recognition of tourism professional
qualification
13. Benefits of MRA TP
Enhance conformity of competency based
training
Skills recognition
Enhance the quality of tourism services
14. MRA TP covers 32 job titles
Housekeeping
Executive Housekeeper
Laundry Manager
Floor Supervisor
Laundry Attendant
Room Attendant
Public Area CleanerFront Office
Front Office Manager
Front Office Supervisor
Receptionist
Telephone Operator
Bell Boy
Food Production
Executive Chef
Demi Chef
Commis Chef
Chef de Partie
Commis Pastry
Baker
Butcher
Food and Beverages
Services
F&B Director
F&B Outlet Manager
Head Waiter
Bartender
Waiter
Hotel Division Travel Services
Travel Agency
General Manager
Assistant General Manager
Senior Travel Consultant
Travel Consultant
Tour Operation
Product Manager
Sales and Marketing Manager
Credit Manager
Ticketing Manager
Tour Manager
15. What ASEAN has
prepared
ASEAN Common Competency
Standards for Tourism
Professional
Regional Qualification
Framework and
Recognition System
144 Toolboxes for
Hotel Division
83 Master Trainers
89 Master Assessors
National Tourism
Professionals Boards Tourism
Professionals
Certification Boards
16. Target 2015
Certification of 6,000 ASEAN Tourism
Professionals by 2015
Establishment of ASEAN Tourism Professional
Registration System (ATPRS)
Regional Secretariat for MRA TP
18. The completion of following tourism standards and certification
process:
► Green hotel,
► Homestay,
► Spa services,
► Public toilet,
► Clean tourist city, and
► Community Based Tourism
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