Nation plans to restart domestic tourism in the third quarter of the year as a first phase for the country’s tourism recovery.
Myanmar expects to restart industry in third quarter of the year
MyanMar is expecting to restart domestic tourism in the third quarter of the year as a first phase for the country’s tourism recovery under the Covid-19 Tourism relief Plan, an official from the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism said.
Under the Covid-19 Tourism relief Plan recently launched by the ministry, domestic tourism will resume soon to help 20% to 25% of the tourism sector recover.
The tourism ministry and religious affairs and Culture Ministry are in talks to reopen the pagodas and cultural sites so as to restart domestic tourism very soon.
Meanwhile, regional tourism will resume in the fourth quarter of this year, by creating travel bubbles with neighbouring countries such as Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, the official said.
The ministry is expecting asian tourism with countries like China and Japan in early 2021, looking at 50% to 60% recovery of the industry while international tourism is expected to come back in early 2022 with 80% to 90% recovery.
The relief plan consists of three main strategies which are survival – self-finance and stimulus package, reopening – relaxation of lockdown and quarantine and re-launching – reinventing Myanmar tourism and relaxing of regulation accordingly with respective timelines.
Under the plan, the ministry has taken measures such as waiving one-year licence fees, deferring lease fees charged to affected stateowned hotels for six months, organising online training, daily allowance paid training and Covid-19 relief Package training, and running Digital Marketing Campaign, Branding Strategy and e-commerce websites.
as Myanmar is seeing fewer numbers of local Covid-19 transmissions, a total of 1,074 hotels, or 50% of total numbers of hotels across the country, have reopened after getting health and safety inspection passes as of Friday, the ministry’s official said.
“We will resume our domestic tour operations after all hotels and destinations are reopened in the country. We are receiving many daily queries for foreign trips such as medical check-ups abroad, but we have no idea when the outbound tours can be resumed,” nilar Win, managing director of Direct Go Travels and Tours Co Ltd said.
as of yesterday morning, the country has reported 286 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with six deaths, according to latest figures released by the Health and Sports Ministry.