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Jun 6, 2013, 11:56:32 PM6/6/13
to travelmyanmar, Mandalay Tour Guides Society
ႊTravel Weekly မွ ပင္တိုင္ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ မီရွဲဘာရန္ ရဲ႕ေဆာင္းပါးပါ
ကိုေတာ္မီေအာင္က ၿမန္မာလိုၿပည္႕ၿပည္႕စံုစံု ေရးၿပီးသားပါ
Myanmar outlines $500 million tourism plan
By Michelle Baran
The Myanmar government has joined forces with Norway and the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) to draw up a tourism-development plan valued at
nearly $500 million.
The government of Norway is funding the plan, which includes 38
infrastructure, cultural and environmental sustainability projects,
the ADB reported.
As Myanmar has transitioned over the past two years from a military
junta to a quasi-civilian government — implementing economic,
political and social reforms — tourism has boomed.
International arrivals are forecast to reach as many as 7.5 million by
2020, a seven-fold increase over the current numbers, with
corresponding tourism receipts worth up to $10.1 billion annually by
then, the ADB said.
The master plan recommends strengthening tourism education and
training; increasing international air arrivals in Mandalay and Nay
Pyi Taw; improving the Irrawaddy River pier in Bagan to better support
river cruising; and building better roads in destinations like Ngapali
Beach and Inle Lake.
The plan also outlines the need for tourist police divisions to better
protect tourists, and to prevent child trafficking and sex tourism.
The country’s 20-year-old tourism law will be reviewed and updated to
streamline licensing for hotels, restaurants, tour operators and tour
guides.
The plan comes as tourism companies continue to invest and expand in
Myanmar, despite the country’s limited hotel capacity.
Earlier this week, Pandaw River Cruises said it would moor ships for
two additional days in both Bagan and Mandalay at the start and end of
its Irrawaddy River itineraries “to avoid the horrendous overpriced
and overbooked hotels in Mandalay and Bagan.”
Pandaw currently has six vessels in Myanmar.
Nearly half a million visitors arrived by air in Myanmar in 2012. The
majority of arrivals were from Thailand, China, Japan, the U.S., and
Korea.
ကိုေတာ္မီေအာင္က ၿမန္မာလိုၿပည္႕ၿပည္႕စံုစံု ေရးၿပီးသားပါ
Myanmar outlines $500 million tourism plan
By Michelle Baran
The Myanmar government has joined forces with Norway and the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) to draw up a tourism-development plan valued at
nearly $500 million.
The government of Norway is funding the plan, which includes 38
infrastructure, cultural and environmental sustainability projects,
the ADB reported.
As Myanmar has transitioned over the past two years from a military
junta to a quasi-civilian government — implementing economic,
political and social reforms — tourism has boomed.
International arrivals are forecast to reach as many as 7.5 million by
2020, a seven-fold increase over the current numbers, with
corresponding tourism receipts worth up to $10.1 billion annually by
then, the ADB said.
The master plan recommends strengthening tourism education and
training; increasing international air arrivals in Mandalay and Nay
Pyi Taw; improving the Irrawaddy River pier in Bagan to better support
river cruising; and building better roads in destinations like Ngapali
Beach and Inle Lake.
The plan also outlines the need for tourist police divisions to better
protect tourists, and to prevent child trafficking and sex tourism.
The country’s 20-year-old tourism law will be reviewed and updated to
streamline licensing for hotels, restaurants, tour operators and tour
guides.
The plan comes as tourism companies continue to invest and expand in
Myanmar, despite the country’s limited hotel capacity.
Earlier this week, Pandaw River Cruises said it would moor ships for
two additional days in both Bagan and Mandalay at the start and end of
its Irrawaddy River itineraries “to avoid the horrendous overpriced
and overbooked hotels in Mandalay and Bagan.”
Pandaw currently has six vessels in Myanmar.
Nearly half a million visitors arrived by air in Myanmar in 2012. The
majority of arrivals were from Thailand, China, Japan, the U.S., and
Korea.
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