Minister of State for Tourism Renuka Chowdhury has been invited to chair an emergency meeting of World Tourism Organisation at Phuket in Thailand Jan 31 to assess the tourism situation in tsunami-hit Asia.

Officials from the 29-member states on the body's executive council, besides representatives of the travel trade, multilateral donor agencies and tourism experts from around the world are expected to attend.

Apart from assessing the situation, the meeting will suggest an action plan for the recovery of tourism in the region that will be discussed by the full meeting of the executive council of the trade body, an official statement said.

The trade body has asked governments to draft travel advisories concerning Asian destinations in a careful and responsible manner, taking into account the fact that disaster only affected pockets of a huge area.

It also asked the governments to withdraw warnings once the situation improved and called on donors to help reconstruct the tourism infrastructure in affected area.