Myanmar names Visit Year

20 Oct 2014  2038 | World Travel News

YANGON  Myanmar will designate 2016 as “Visit Myanmar Year” to boost tourism.
Irrawaddy, a respected local media channel, quoted Hotels and Tourism deputy minister Tin Shwe as saying the country hopes to celebrate the Visit Myanmar Year in 2016.
“Tourism accommodation is expanding and there will soon be enough suitable places for foreign tourists to stay,” he said.
inside no 1“Currently, there are around 1,100 hotels in the country, 267 hotels in Yangon with over 12,000 rooms, so it is not difficult to implement the Visit Myanmar Year in 2016,” he said, “The tourism sector needs to be promoted more than at present in order to improve foreign exchange income.”
According to the deputy minister, the planned year-long tourism promotion campaign fits well with the Myanmar Tourism Master Plan 2013 to 2020, a policy developed with support of international donors that sets out a strategy to develop the sector through focusing on areas such as training for tourism sector workers, developing tourism destinations, and addressing problems in connectivity and communication in the country.
To reach the target, tourism experts suggested that the country should develop hotels, guesthouses, transport and communications infrastructure quality, tourist visa-on-arrival, and domestic air industry.
International tourist arrivals had been rising sharply, up from 800,000 in 2011 to about 2 million in 2013.
For the first eight months of this year, 1.8 million foreigners travelled to the country. It is expected the figure this year could grow to 3 million visitors by next year.
The Tourism Master Plan plans to raise foreign visitor numbers to 3 million by 2015 and 7.5 million by 2020.
Under the plan, the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism will coordinate nearly USD500 million in spending on the sector through 2020. In turn, the ministry expects revenue from tourism-related services to rise from USD534 million in 2012 to more than USD10 billion in 2020.

sourced:ttrweekly.com 

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