Lao Airlines to launch Vientiane-Phnom Penh direct flight

VIENTIANE: Lao Airlines will start operating flights between Lao's Vientiane and Cambodia's Phnom Penh, hoping that direct air travel between the two capitals will bring more tourists and investors to Laos.

International travel and tourism industry is booming, especially in the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean) region, with air travel being tourists' preferred means of transport, managing director of the Lao national carrier Khamla Phommavanh was quoted as saying by the Lao National TV in a report on Thursday (March 7).