george Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Myanmar to provide easy visa access to foreign tourists YANGON, Dec. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Myanmar is making arrangements to provide easy visa access to foreign tourists visiting the country and e-visas will be issued soon, the official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported on Sunday. Quoting Minister of Hotels and Tourism Thein Zaw, the report said new tour destinations are being introduced and security measures being stepped up for the tourists as part of the promotional campaign of the country's tourism industry. Thein Zaw attended a meeting on tourism cooperation among four countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand held here Saturday. To develop its tourism, Myanmar has been cooperating with tourism authorities of member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in regional activities, including cooperation programs for destinations in the ASEAN region and the Ganges-Mekong cooperation program. Myanmar has signed bilateral cooperation agreements on tourism with four ASEAN members -- Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Singapore along with China. Among the ASEAN members, Thailand, which is also Myanmar's immediate neighbor, stands as the country's major tourist provideralong with China, supplying a great number of cross-border tourists each year to the nation. According to local statistics, tourist arrivals in Myanmar reached 277,647 during the first seven months of the fiscal year 2003-04 which began in April, increasing by 27.3 percent compared with the same period of the previous year. It is reported that there are 540 travel companies running tourism business in Myanmar with over one billion US dollars of contracted foreign investment being already brought into the sector of hotels and tourism in 43 projects as of the end of 2002 since late 1988 when the country opened to such investment. Myanmar has set a short-term target to draw 500,000 foreign tourists annually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinrada Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 One or two outfits dont want to play Latest News High Street shuns Burma 02 Dec 03 MTV launches campaign calling for release of Aung San Suu Kyi 01 Dec 03 Railway Touring Co. Drops Burma 28 Nov 03 PricewaterhouseCoopers Pull Out Of Burma 27 Nov 03 VICTORY! – BAT PULL OUT OF BURMA 06 Nov 03 Kappa pull out of Burma 10 Oct 03 BAT face DTI Investigation into Burma Factory 01 Oct 03 JJB Sports Withdraw Burma Stock 26 Sep 03 Groundhog Day for Suu Kyi 26 Sep 03 JJB Sports and Kappa face Boycott over Burma Links 25 Sep 03 Something Fishy at British American Tobacco (BAT) 03 Sep 03 AIR MILES drops Orient Express Burma Tours 03 Sep 03 Suu Kyi hunger strike - will the UN ever act? 01 Sep 03 Burma Timewarp 31 Aug 03 MTV and The Burma Campaign UK launch campaign to free Aung San Suu Kyi 27 Aug 03 WPP Pull Out Of Burma 21 Aug 03 Germany is protecting Burma’s dictatorship says new Europe-wide campaign 21 Aug 03 Intrepid Travel Do Burma Hokey Cokey 21 Aug 03 ‘Dirty List’ Exposes Companies Supporting Regime In Burma 20 Aug 03 Lotto Sportswear Pull Out of Burma 08 Aug 03 Burmes Exiles Protest in Parliament Square 07 Aug 03 New Burma ‘Dirty List’ Published 06 Aug 03 Abercrombie and Kent drop Burma tours 28 Jul 03 Royal Society cancels trip to Burma 22 Jul 03 Germany blocks EU sanctions on Burma 21 Jul 03 EU decision day for action on Burma 17 Jul 03 Government to tell travel firms to end Burma tourism 04 Jul 03 Dutch campaign against BAT started today 03 Jul 03 British Government tell BAT - 'Get out of Burma' 02 Jul 03 Aung San Suu Kyi Could Face Five Years Detention 19 Jun 03 http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/news.php (with thanks t the Free Burma Cam.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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