Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Foreign arrivals rise in January, February

THE number of foreign travellers arriving in Myanmar through Yangon International Airport jumped by more than 40 percent in February on the previous year, figures from the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism show.

The figures also show that foreign arrivals for January and February were up by nearly 40pc on the same months last year.

A total of 50,243 foreign travellers arrived through Yangon International Airport in February, up 41.41pc on the same month in 2011.

Arrivals for January and February totalled 98,486, up 37.75pc on the same months the previous year.

The overwhelming majority of the arrivals for both months were independent travellers, with 32,960 in February (up from 24,386 the previous year) and 32,250 in January (24,024).

The figures for January and February show that the number of arrivals has made a solid start this year as they account for 27.4pc of the 359,359 foreign travellers who entered the country through the Yangon gateway during 2011.

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