Myanmar receives over 4mil foreign tourists in 2019

Vendors selling souvenir items in front of Hsinbyume Pagoda in Mingun, some 40 kilometers outside Mandalay in Myanmar. The Govt has announced that Myanmar received over 4.36 million foreign visitors in 2019 compared to 3.55 million in 2018. - AFP

YANGON: Myanmar received over 4.36 million foreign visitors in 2019, said the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism has announced.

Tourist arrivals of 2019 increased by 23%, compared to the same period of the year 2018 when over 3.55 million foreign travellers arrived in Myanmar, the ministry said.