The Parliament in Nay
Pyi Taw has welcomed around 200 tourists in the last 3 months.
The Director of Hotels
and Tourism claimed that the majority of visitors coming to the Parliament are
from Europe and he believed that this would help tourism in the city develop
better in the years around.
There are more than
8,000 international standard hotel rooms but only 20 to 30 % of them were used.
Visitors are allowed
to visit the Parliament from last April but they have to comply with really
strict rules. Visitors have to contact the travel agents which will apply for
permission from the Directorate of Hotels and Tourism for each visit
afterwards.
The
application process need to be completed and submitted five days before the
visit.
The official said that
there was no entrance fee then but they were about to collect fees in the
future.
The Parliament being
open to public was a part of the marketing plan in order to enhance tourism in
the city. There were 60 hotels built in the last 3 years and an international
airport opened in 2014 .
Around 100,000
visitors have been welcomed to Nay Pyi Taw last year.
The temple and white
elephants are the main tourist attractions here, but opening the Parliament
proves that they are going on the right road. Not until April were there tour
buses stopped at the gate of the Parliament.
The fact that the ASEAN
Tourism Forum being held in the city last January really made the authority
more fascinated in boosting tourism in this country. There were numerous
suggestions were presented at the side – line meeting on the way to enhance Nay
Pyi Taw’s attractions and opening the Parliament to public was one of those.
The effort of boosting tourism can also be seen in
transportation when a new route connecting Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw was opened
last April.
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