All famous resort hotels lying in three beach areas of Myanmar will reopen next month despite drop of tourist arrivals over the past few months impacted by May cyclone, the local weekly 7-Day News reported Thursday.
These beach resorts are Ngapali, Ngwe Saung and Chaungtha which escaped from being affected by the disaster.
Hotel staff are being mobilized to keep ready for serving visitors, while domestic flights to the areas from Yangon are being arranged to operate in time, the report said.
The key motor road between Yangon and Pathein under renovation is being strived for completion before October, it said.
These measures are taken as part of Myanmar's efforts to revive its tourism industry severely affected by the May storm.
Although it has been over three months after the cyclone smashed Myanmar, tourist arrivals during the period fell 90 percent compared with the previous years correspondingly.
The drop of the tourist arrivals has brought about much impact on all tourism-related businesses, the Tourism Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) said, adding that means are being sought to overcome these difficulties and get free from the status.
As part of the remedial measures, the TEA has reshuffled its central executive committee to pave way for improving its tourism undertakings in the next three years.
Also as part of its efforts to restore tourism operation in the aftermath of the cyclone storm, Myanmar is planning to hold a market festival in Inlay, one of the country's famous tourist sites in Shan state, according to local report.
Preparations including upgrading of hotels and restaurants are underway for the two-day market festival scheduled for next February, sources with the Ministry of hotels and Tourism said.
Myanmar has also laid down a tourism restoration plan to strive for maintaining the momentum of tourism industry operation in the coming open season near the end of this year.
Source:Xinhua
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