Regional-based tourism earmarked for southern Myanmar villages
Regional-based tourism earmarked for southern Myanmar villages
The Global New Light of Myanmar, 07 May 2016
URL: http://globalnewlightofmyanmar.com/regional-based-tourism-earmarked-for-southern-myanmar-villages/
ELEVEN villages from Myanmar’s southern coastal region of Tanintharyi will conduct regional based tourism enterprises, according to the office of the Department of Hotels and Tourism.
The project, which has currently been submitted to union level government, will be implemented during the current 2016-17 fiscal year, it is known.
“Regional-based tourism is like a type of foreign investment. But, it must be conducted by local residents as it plays on regional development. It’s to allow for residents to become self-reliant. The Department of Hotels and Tourism will oversee the whole project.” said U Naing Win, director of the Department of Hotels and Tourism for Tanintharyi Region.
Traditional ethnic housing will be built in the eleven villages to accommodate tourists, while programs will be provided on traditional food, handicrafts and ethnic lifestyle and the environment which tourists will be able to study. There will be enterprises run by local residents themselves.
Any profits made will of course be spilt fifty-fifty between entrepreneurs and those local residents.” continued U Naing Win.
The villages that will provide region-based tourism are located in Dawei district: San Hlan, Nyaw Pyin, Metta and Hsinphyutaing; Myeik district: Uyinthaungkan, Donenyaunghmaing, Donekamarkyaung, Dahun; and Kawthaung district: Makyonega, Nyaungwi and Gyalan.
The project, which has currently been submitted to union level government, will be implemented during the current 2016-17 fiscal year, it is known.
“Regional-based tourism is like a type of foreign investment. But, it must be conducted by local residents as it plays on regional development. It’s to allow for residents to become self-reliant. The Department of Hotels and Tourism will oversee the whole project.” said U Naing Win, director of the Department of Hotels and Tourism for Tanintharyi Region.
Traditional ethnic housing will be built in the eleven villages to accommodate tourists, while programs will be provided on traditional food, handicrafts and ethnic lifestyle and the environment which tourists will be able to study. There will be enterprises run by local residents themselves.
Any profits made will of course be spilt fifty-fifty between entrepreneurs and those local residents.” continued U Naing Win.
The villages that will provide region-based tourism are located in Dawei district: San Hlan, Nyaw Pyin, Metta and Hsinphyutaing; Myeik district: Uyinthaungkan, Donenyaunghmaing, Donekamarkyaung, Dahun; and Kawthaung district: Makyonega, Nyaungwi and Gyalan.