(KPL) Mr Bousakone Ketmala, Head of the Nong Nonkhiane International Border Checkpoint has confirmed that the checkpoint will provide faster service to inbound and outbound visitors crossing the Lao and Cambodian border.

The move is among efforts to ensure better inflow of foreign visitors and promote Visit Laos Year 2018.

“To ensure visitors can travel through the border checkpoint conveniently, the management of the Nong Nonkhiane International Border Checkpoint has improved facilities with modern technology installed to improve work environment of our officials so that they can provide better immigration service for visitors crossing the common border of Laos and Cambodia,” Mr Bousakone told Lao News Agency’s reporter last Saturday.  

Nong Nonkhiane is an international border checkpoint located between Champassak of Laos and Stung Treng of Cambodia. Visitors tend to use the checkpoint to travel between Ho Chi Minh, southern Vietnam, and Cambodia as they will travel a shorter distance, around 400 km shorter than traveling through border checkpoints in Attapeu and other nearby provinces.

Around 61,000 visitors traveled through the Nong Nonkhiane International Border Checkpoint in 2017.

Most of the tourists were foreign visitors who tended to visit well-known tourist attractions in the southernmost province of the country including Khonephapheng waterfall, Liphee Waterfall, and the World Heritage Vat Phou Champassak.              

KPL