After the tourist slump created by the coronavirus pandemic and the February 2021 military coup, international arrivals in Myanmar are showing big increases. In the fiscal year 2022-23 (ending in late March), 367,368 foreigners mostly with tourist visas entered the country, an increase of 187 percent over the previous year.
Junta spokesman U Hla Myint said 13.15 percent or around 48,000 of the arrivals were Chinese nationals, but an encouraging feature was the growth in numbers from India, Russia and the Middle East. Travel agents say that Europeans, Americans and Japanese have mostly kept away on the advice of their governments as parts of the country are gripped by civil war and a lack of human rights.
U Tin Zaw Thein, a director from the hotels and tourism ministry, said there was no disorder in the areas which tourists visited…
