The Myanmar authorities will not delay the process of issuing visas for foreign visitors to enter the country, a local weekly quoting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as reporting Monday.
Foreign visitors are advised to apply at Myanmar embassies around the world for correct visas which are categorized as social, diplomatic and tourist ones, the Myanmar Times said, citing instances that some visitors entered the country on social visas but took part in unauthorized activities.
Meanwhile, in the post-storm period, the government has created a special ASEAN-Myanmar-UN tripartite core group to take care of the visa issuing process for international aid workers coming to Myanmar to provide help for cyclone victims.
According to the report, the authorities has approved visa for more than 1,670 international aid workers to help Myanmar victims, half of whom are directly being involved in relief operations in storm-hit regions.
The authorities stressed that visas-on-arrival will only be issued to people on government-approved package tours.
Official figures show that tourist arrivals at Yangon International Airport totalled 15,204 in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2008-09, a drop of 47.59 percent from 29,007 in the same period of 2007-08.
Source: Xinhua
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