Heads spin as tourist numbers

drop by almost one million

Worapong Moochaotai, advisor to Siripanna Villa Resort Chiang Mai Centara Boutique Collection, and the Secretary General of the Chiang Mai Tourism Business Association has sounded a warning. A few years ago Chiang Mai had positive factors that attracted many investments and the investors had no problem obtaining funds from the financial institutions. Many new hotels were built during that period, and the number of hotel rooms in Chiang Mai reached 30,000 when the Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006 took place.
However, since then, different types of issues including global and internal economic and political upheavals and air pollution have emerged, causing a decrease in tourist numbers to the province. The resultant oversupply has become the major issue that Chiang Mai’s tourism business sector has to overcome.

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Tourists to Myanmar on the rise

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, tourists take bullock cart rides in Bagan, one of the tourist attractions, located in central Myanmar. The number of tourists to Myanmar has increased from 125,532 (from January to September 2008) to 133,268 (from January to September 2009), the Myanmar state media said recently. Most visitors to Myanmar are from Asia, and the arrivals from Thailand from January to September 2009 has reached 7538, while 1266 from Japan. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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