Tourism Myanmar travel

Tourism Myanmar travel was established on 24 September 1992 to rise the momentum of Myanmar tourism industry. The objective of Tourism Myanmar travel are to large amount of foreign exchange in a short period. Besides, through the friendship strengthened, Myanmar nation can gain cultural benefits and preserve and protect Myanmar natural resources and ancient cultural heritage. Please provide necessary assistance to the international traveler. But the most interesting pieces were found in the English "newspaper" ("propagandapaper" would be more appropriate) "The New Light of Myanmar". The earnings from the tourists contribute to the economy of the Myanmar state, the yearly foreign exchange earnings are as follows.

According to the Myanmar travel agencies concerning the tourist stay in Myanmar hotels, the average stay 8 days. The daily expenditure was about US $ 80. Among the visitors to Myanmar, 70.6 % was from the Asian Continent, 18.5 % from Western Europe, 6.5 % from America and 4.4 % from other regions. Taiwanese and Japanese from Asia comprised a majority of the visitors to Myanmar whereas French comprised a majority from Western Europe. Concerning the domestic tourism Myanmar hotel enterprises, according to the statistics, up to January 2001, there were 24 hotel projects with 4281 rooms with the investment of US $ 558.03 million. 18 State owned Myanmar tourism hotels with 892 rooms have been rented to private entrepreneurs. Myanmar investment were $ 0.25 million and K 58.65 million. The 8 hotels with 316 rooms were run by the State with investment of K 1312.19 million. There are 489 hotels, motels and inns with 11292 rooms run by private entrepreneurs and the amount of investment is US $ 4.90 million and K 14417.02 million.

According to the Act of Myanmar tourism travel, 582 Myanmar travel agencies, 4854 licensed tourist guides and 444 licensed Myanmar tour vehicles are operating the tourism Myanmar travel industry. Entry Myanmar Visas for tourists were extended to 28 days with effect from 14 March 1998 and business visas were extended to 70 days. The numbers of tourist entered through ports, Myanmar airports and border checkpoints were 392782 persons for the period up to January 2001.