(Bangkok Post file photo)Bagan: Thailand and Myanmar have vowed to stimulate tourism and raise the number of visitors between the neighbouring nations to 1.5 million by 2020 as part of the "two countries, one destination" cooperative scheme. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) signed a memorandum of understanding last Friday with the Myanmar Tourism Federation to promote tourism between the countries. Myanmar welcomed 2.9 million foreign tourists in 2016, a decrease by 38% from the previous year, reported Myanmar's Ministry of Hotels and Tourism. In 2015, 4.68 million travellers visited Myanmar. By nationality, Thai visitors topped the list at 207,000.

Source: Bangkok Post February 06, 2017 21:11 UTC