EM Bureau Kohima/Dimapur, July 30 (EMN): Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, who is in Bangkok for the North East India Festival 2022, on Saturday, said educating people on the similarities of the Northeast region of India, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, can help unify and help form close economic collaboration between the nations. Addressing the gathering at the inaugural programme of the 2nd Edition of North East India Festival at Central World Complex, Bangkok, Rio said the event will give further thrust to the Act East Policy of the Government of India and Act West Policy of Thailand and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. “I am hopeful that new vistas of opportunity in trade and tourism, as well as people-to-people and cultural unification, will emerge,” he said. “Nagaland Tourism is also venturing into a new tourism initiative ‘Reimagine Tourism’ by promoting off road destination and taking Tourism to interiors of Nagaland on off-road 4×4 trails in the ‘remoter’ areas where we expect to attract those interested in adventure and rural tourism,” he added. The chief minister also welcomed a delegation from the tourism industry of Thailand to the Hornbill Festival this year, while adding that the state...