People Mobility

The size and diversity of Southeast Asia is what makes ASEAN resilient and exciting. To maximise ASEAN’s potential, the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 promotes people mobility in the region by supporting ease of travel throughout ASEAN, reducing the gaps between vocational skills demand and supply, and increasing intra-ASEAN university students mobility.

To establish ASEAN as a single travel destination, ASEAN needs to address the lack of information on travel options and simplify the visa application process. The MPAC 2025 supports these efforts by enhancing the existing ASEAN tourism digital platforms and facilitating visa processes through the introduction of an electronic visa.

Greater mobility creates more opportunities. To bring ASEAN’s talents closer to their opportunities, the MPAC 2025 seeks to establish high-quality vocational training programmes and qualification frameworks, as well as develop a student mobility database, regional internship programmes and alumni networks.

“The number of intra-ASEAN tourists has increased to over 45 million tourists. The increasing number of tourists has attracted investors to come and invest more in the ASEAN region, especially in tourism.”

Mrs. Sothea Ho

Founder of 2World Travel

Cambodia

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"The number of intra-ASEAN tourists has increased to over 45 million tourists. The increasing number of tourists has attracted investors to come and invest more in the ASEAN region, especially in tourism."

Mrs. Sothea Ho, Founder of 2World Travel, Cambodia

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"Intra-ASEAN skilled labour mobility is a policy among ASEAN Nations that we absolutely need to fully support."

Mr. Tony Harley Silalahi, Director of Politeknik Manufaktur Astra, Indonesia

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People Mobility | 29 January 2024

Southeast Asia Tourism Chinese website officially launched

Lao PDR, 29 January 2024 – With support from the Government of China, ASEAN is proud to launch the Southeast Asia Tourism Chinese Website, an initiative under the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025, on the occasion of the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2024. 2024 is an opportune moment for the website…

People Mobility | 29 November 2022

Graduate Employability in ASEAN: The Contribution of Student Mobility

The Study on Graduate Employability in ASEAN: The Contribution of Student Mobility aims to map the student and labour mobility trends in the ASEAN region, examine the supply side and demand side perspectives on the value of intra-ASEAN student mobility on graduates’ career outcomes, and provide recommendations to further enhance…

People Mobility | 5 October 2020

Study on Enhancing Intra-ASEAN University Student Mobility

Higher education plays an important role in ASEAN’s economic, political and socio-cultural development agenda. As a region it has nearly 20 million higher education students and over 7000 universities. Supporting the mobility of these students in the region is an important aspect of ASEAN’s work on the internationalisation of higher…

People Mobility | 12 August 2020

INFOGRAPHIC: Intra-ASEAN Student Mobility

The Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 supports higher education exchange across ASEAN Member States and aims to enhance student mobility by addressing four gaps: information, awareness, regulatory, and incentives. Download this infographic to learn more about Intra-ASEAN Student Mobility.

People Mobility | 29 May 2020

INFOGRAPHIC: Enhancing Human Capital through Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 seeks to strengthen TVET in ASEAN as one of its initiatives to improve the way we live, work, and travel. Download this Infographic to learn more about TVET in ASEAN.