Tourism MMR vs. Laos

To observe the performance of tourism industry in Myanmar and Laos Republic within the period 2014-2018 It includes

• Evaluation to online accessibility for the information
• Statistical analysis on Tourist Arrivals compared

• MMR: http://tourism.gov.mm/
• Laos: http://tourismlaos.org/

Myanmar official website looks loacl administration purpose and lacks of attraction for the external users. Laos tourism website has good contents describing monthly festivals and events to attract the tours.

  Year Arrival_mill     perChng
1 2013         2.04  0.00000000
2 2014         3.08  0.50980392
3 2015         4.68  0.51948052
4 2016         2.91 -0.37820513
5 2017         3.44  0.18213058
6 2018         3.55  0.03197674

  Year Arrival_mill    perChnge
1 2013         2.70  0.00000000
2 2014         3.16  0.17037037
3 2015         3.54  0.12025316
4 2016         4.23  0.19491525
5 2017         3.86 -0.08747045
6 2018         4.10  0.06217617

The average tourist arrivals to Myanmar is about 3.3 millions a year. It reached above the upper control limit in 2015 when NLP party win in election. Then, declined to the average line in later years.

According to the 2017 Report from Laos, the GDP contribution ranking of Tourism Myanmar is just above the Laos.

According to the 2017 Report, there are 1590 Hotels and 63978 Rooms available to host the guests to Myanmar. Unfortunately, the recent instability in Rakhine Rohingha issues,and the battles in Kachin and Shan States make Myanmar struggled in the tourism sector.

• MMR: http://tourism.gov.mm/publications/tourism-statistics/
• Laos: https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/economic-impact-research/countries-2018/laos2018.pdf