Tachilei’s Thai-Myanmar border post © Arno Maierbrugger Seemingly disregarding civil strife, countless skirmishes between guerrilla freedom fighters and the military, more than 300 roadside bomb attacks since the coup d’état on February 1, abandoned infrastructure and an economy on the brink of collapse, the ruling Myanmar The military government announced that the country will reopen the tourism industry to foreigners at the beginning of next year, as Bloomberg News wrote, initially targeting tourists from Southeast Asia. The country’s Minister of Hospitality and Tourism Htay Aung behaved as if nothing serious had happened since the military takeover. The country’s Minister of Hospitality and Tourism Htay Aung stated that the new…
Seemingly disregarding civil strife, countless skirmishes between guerrilla freedom fighters and the military, more than 300 roadside bomb attacks since the coup d’état on February 1, abandoned infrastructure and an economy on the brink of collapse, the ruling Myanmar The military government announced that the country will reopen its tourism industry to foreigners early next year, initially targeting tourists from Southeast Asia. Bloomberg News Write.
The country’s Minister of Hotels and Tourism Htay Aung behaved as if nothing serious had happened since the military takeover. The reduction in new Covid-19 infections prompted the lifting of the ban on inter-provincial travel, and the next step would be to open international borders.
Ang said that Myanmar will make necessary arrangements for the travel bubble with Thailand through the land border and plans to reopen Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the first quarter of 2022, but added that the ban on international commercial flights is still in effect.
The first phase is expected to have approximately 300,000 regional tourists
He pointed out that in the first phase of the reopening, there are expected to be about 300,000 foreigners. Although about half of the hotels and guesthouses in the country have been closed, there are still about 90,000 rooms available.
Since the February coup overthrew the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar has always had a military government. Political turmoil has intensified the fight against the pandemic and its aftermath.
According to the latest report of the Asian Development Bank, in the fiscal year ending September 30, the economy may have contracted 18.4%, but due to the “unclear situation”, the bank did not provide a forecast for the 2022 fiscal year.
