Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The second edition of the North East Festival began here Friday with discussions taking the centrestage as top Thai tour operators interacted with tourism stakeholders from the northeastern region. World News | North East India Festival Begins in Bangkok.
In the second edition of the 'Northeast India Festival', a series of discussions, exhibitions, buyer-seller meets, cultural programmes and fashion events
The three-day northeast festival began in Bangkok on Friday in presence of 150 Thai tour operators interacting with northeast India's tourism stakeholders.The colourful festival began at the Centara Grand Hotel in Bangkok to showcase northeast .
Guwahati, July 23 (PTI): In a bid to take forward the Act East policy, the second edition of the three-day North East India Festival, 2022 will be held in the Thailand capital Bangkok from July 29. The festival marks 75 years of India’s diplomatic relationship with Thailand and aims to promote trade, tourism, cultural exchange and people-to-people meet between the two countries, North East India Festival’s Chief Organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta said at a press conference here on Saturday. “North East is going to Thailand to explore the shared history and to promote trade, business and people to people exchange,” he said. The inaugural session of the festival, to be hosted by the Indian embassy in Thailand, will be held on July 29 at the Centara Grand Hotel in Bangkok. The first edition of the festival, organised by the socio-cultural Trust Trend MMS, was held in 2019. A few months later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Bangkok and said that the focus has bee