Hyper Season in Burma - Myanmar Tourism Statistics
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Never in the history of mankind have so many tourists gone so suddenly to such a un known, unlov ed country. Date: 09-03-2013 From Bust to Boom - Hyper season in Myanmar Myanmar used to be an unknown, unloved, forgotten country, located right between two of Asia's major tourist destinations: India and Thailand. In the high season just a few hundred thousand people would bother to travel there, put off by the boycot, the complicated b order and travel restricions and the difficult currency situation. Myanmar has gone from bust to boom in just a few years. There is no more high season in Myanmar - the 2012/2 013 winter season was a hyper -season. 2012 The hotel situ ation in Myanmar is in dire straits, the country will need several years to modernise and bu ild hotels to provide enough rooms for the tourism boom. Hotel r ates in Myanmar have more than doubled in 2012. In the winter season of 2012 /201 3 people hav e slept in staff-rooms, in private hotel quarters, on the roof (Bagan), in monastries (Inle) and frequently in substandard and overpriced rooms. And a few people have cut short their holiday because of a lack of budget. For many years Burma had between 200.000 and 250.000 tourists arriving at Yangon airport every year. From 2010 onwards the numbers started to rise dramatically. In 2012 the number tourists reached more than 1 million (including border tourists).
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Never in the history of mankind have so many tourists gone so suddenly
to such a unknown, unloved country.
Date: 09-03-2013
From Bust to Boom - Hyper season in Myanmar
Myanmar used to be an unknown, unloved, forgotten country, locatedright between two of Asia's major tourist destinations: India and Thailand.
In the high season just a few hundred thousand people would bother to
travel there, put off by the boycot, the complicated border and travel
restricions and the difficult currency situation. Myanmar has gone from
bust to boom in just a few years. There is no more high season inMyanmar - the 2012/2013 winter season was a hyper-season.
2012
The hotel situation in Myanmar is in dire straits, the country will needseveral years to modernise and build hotels to provide enough rooms for
the tourism boom. Hotel rates in Myanmar have more than doubled in
2012. In the winter season of 2012/2013 people have slept in staff-rooms,
in private hotel quarters, on the roof (Bagan), in monastries (Inle) and
frequently in substandard and overpriced rooms. And a few people have
cut short their holiday because of a lack of budget.
For many years Burma had between 200.000 and 250.000 tourists arriving
at Yangon airport every year. From 2010 onwards the numbers started torise dramatically. In 2012 the number tourists reached more than 1
million (including border tourists).
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Tourist arrivals by air from 2006 to 2013. (excluding border
tourists, 2013 estimated)
2013 : Skyrocketing hotel rates
A quote from Daw Phyu Phyu Mar, managing director of Seven Star Toursin Yangon:
"2013 is scary for all inbound tour operators. We suffered and
struggled with skyrocketing hotel rates in 2012 with a million
visitors, and we expect an increase up to 30 percent this year. All
we need is accommodation and skilled workers in the industry.
Hoteliers and industry players are trying very hard to provide
enough accommodation for 2013-2014." (www.mmtimes.com )
No one is more surprised about the tourism boom than the Burmese
themselves. After many decades of very stable prices the hotel ownershave happily doubled their room rates without even upgrading anything.
In Yangon during 2013 many hotelroom rates may triple compared to
2011.
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Tourism news - from the 2012 Squeeze to the 2013 Crush.
http://travel.cnn.com - CNN, 26 Feb-2013. Myanmar hit by severe
hotel shortage.blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013 - FT.com, 21 Jan-2013. The biggest
challenge to hotel capacity is likely to come when Myanmar hosts the
Southeast Asian Gameswww.smh.com.au - Sydney Morning Herald, jan 16, 2013. Asia's
hottest spot: record 1 million tourists flock to Burma.
http://travel.cnn.com - CNN, 19-Nov-2012. Myanmar: Where will yousleep?
www.tigermine.com/2013 - Will Greene, TigerMine: Myanmar
Tourism Statistics.
www.dvb.no/news - Democratic Voice of Burma: Burma ‘struggling’
with tourism boom.
www.burmanet.org - AFP, 30-jan-2012 - Myanmar faces hotelshortage as arrivals jump 26 per cent.www.hotelnewsnow.com - Hotelnews: "The growth potential in
Myanmar is beyond huge, but even as the room supply increases, it’s
still has only 1,800 rooms of international standard."
www.mizzima.com - www.mizzima.com, 07 Sep 2012: Burma to
double rooms in Bagan hotel zone.
www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-29 - Yangon More ExpensiveThan NYC.
So are you still willing to pay top dolllar for overpriced hotels, the worstrailways in the world and mediocre food? You cannot avoid the reality ...
Burma is still a very poor country even if you manage to find a nice
hotelroom. And to find a nice room if you're not on a pre-booked tour is
quite difficult at the moment.
Tip: try to google on
"burma hotel room shortage" or "burma tourist boom" or "Burma Hotel
prices soaring -tripadvisor " or " Burma overpriced site:tripadvisor.com "
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