Myanmar VP calls for adequate facilities to sustain tourism growth

Myanmar's Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham called for upgrading and providing adequate tourist facilities to timely sustain the tourist growth that Myanmar has already achieved, said an official daily on Saturday.
Sai told Myanmar Tourism Development Coordination on World Tourism Day in Nay Pyi Taw on Friday that it is needed to provide adequate facilities including smooth entries, convenient and safe transport, good quality services of hotels, inns, restaurants, and sufficient qualified tour guides to be able to sustain the tourist growth, the New Light of Myanmar reported.
Sai believed that the forum would bring forth a productive and fruitful outcome and serve as a driving force to carry out the program for the systematic and sustainable tourism development, not only for Myanmar but also for the whole region.
Meanwhile, the number of international visitor arrivals in the country in the first eight months of 2013 has reached over one million, with an increase of 58 percent, compared with the same period of 2012.
It is expected that the number of tourist arrival would reach 1.8 to 2 million this year. Foreign visitor arrivals hit 1.06 million last year.

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Authorities urge the hotels to finish construction before SEA Games

Authorities urge the companies which are building Shangrila Residence and Rose Garden Hotel to be operational for the upcoming SEA Games, according to an official from Ministry of Hotel and Tourism.

Yangon and Nay Pyi Taw will be the two major locations that will have to provide the needed hotel rooms for the visitors.

The government is hoping that the Shangrila Residence and Rose Garden Hotel would be ready for the upcoming event, according to Director Kaung Htut from Ministry of Hotel and Tourism.

The two buildings are targeted to finish in late 2013 and will provide accommodation about 500 rooms, according to the ministry.

Shangrila Residence and Rose Garden Hotel are invested by Thailand and Hong Kong respectively. Now the two buildings are in renovation state because there is demand for hotel rooms.

“Now we have little hotel rooms with international standard. Thus we are providing what we can to help the constructing for international standard hotels,” the director said.

Myanmar will provide more than 7,000 hotel rooms for forthcoming SEA Games held in Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Mandalay.

Credit: Eleven Media Group

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