More Myanmar nationals travelling abroad

TUESDAY, AUGUST 06, 2013
More Myanmar nationals travelling abroad

More than 380,000 Myanmar nationals go overseas each year, Aung Zaw Win, director general for the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, said. He was speaking at a tourism development forum in Yangon on Saturday.

The most popular destinations are Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Indonesia and Japan. 
“Their purposes are leisure, shopping, adventure, health, medical check-up, education, business and work,” Phone Pai Oo, director for Ayarwaddy Legend Tour Company, said.