The South-East Asian nation received 523,499 Chinese visitors from January to September last year, a year-on-year increase of 164%.
Now, China has become Myanmar’s largest source of foreign tourists with the biggest increase in tourist numbers. Package tours are the choice of 80% of Chinese travellers to Myanmar.
Attractions popular with Chinese tourists include the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar; Mandalay Palace, the last royal palace of the last Burmese monarch; U Bein Bridge and Ngwe Saung Beach.
Travel to Myanmar from China has boomed especially in the past two years partly due to eased visa regulations and the growth in direct flights between the two countries.
Starting from Oct 1, 2018, the Myanmar government introduced a trial policy that grants visas on arrival to Chinese visitors with ordinary passports. In September, the policy was extended to Sept 30 this year.
Currently, China tops the list of international airlines in Myanmar, with flights by 13 Chinese airlines between Chinese cities and Yangon, Eleven Media Group reported.
There are more than 150 direct flights between the two countries every month, a figure seven times larger than three years ago.
Myanmar is expecting the number of Chinese tourists to reach nearly two million this year.
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