Myanmar records three million international visitors in 2014
Inbound tourism to Myanmar had another banner year, welcoming three million international visitors in 2014.
The number of international visitors has increased almost three-fold since 2012, when 1.1 million foreign tourists visited, tourism officials said.
"There has been an increase in visitor numbers to Myanmar and hotel occupancy rates are increasing," said Zeyar, deputy director of Myanmar tourism promotion.
"We are currently finalising the figures but I believe the top markets are China and Thailand. From Europe, the majority of visitors come from France, the UK and Germany."
A series of economic and political reforms and a focus on foreign investment has helped create conditions for one of ASEAN’s fasting growing tourism economies.
Tourism earnings reached $1.14 billion in 2014 and tourism leaders are quietly confident of welcoming five million tourists by the end of 2015, rising to 7.5 million by 2020.
Myanmar tourism continues to remain in the spotlight this month as the country is hosting the ASEAN Tourism Ministers Meeting from January 22-29.
Over 1,500 tourism ministers, officials and stakeholders are expected to attend from 40 countries.
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