New airport reportedly planned for Myanmar
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Myanmar is reportedly planning to build an airport for the tourism-business-booming beach resort of Ngwesaung in the country´s southwestern division of Ayeyawaddy, to facilitate local and foreign travelers.
Recently, it was shared that Myanmar´s Yangon International Airport, which is under extension, would have the capacity of accommodating larger aircraft such as Boeing-747 on completion. The new airport on completion can also handle about 2.7 million passengers a year against the present 500,000.
Ngwesaung´s silvery beach, about 30 miles from the town of Pathein, stretches for nine miles from Zee-Maw Village in the north to Majee-Maw Village in the south with its scenic and occasionally rocky shoreline, all set against a backdrop of tropical rain forests and the towering Rakhine mountain range.
According to a Xinhua report, the number of tourists coming to Ngwesaung has exceeded that arriving at the five-kilometer Ngapali beach resort, which lies on the western Rakhine coast near Thandwe and traditionally attracted the largest number of travelers in the past. The report added that once the airport is built, the Ngwesaung beach resort will become the second which is accessible by air after Ngapali. Following Ngapali and Ngwesaung, the two-kilometer Chaungtha, which is also in the Ayeyawaddy division, stands as the third beach resort in Myanmar that invited large number of visitors.
Tourist arrivals in Myanmar increased annually in the past five years registering at 660,206 in the fiscal year of 2005-06 which ended in March, up from 656,000 in 2004-05, 590,000 in 2003-04 and about 470,000 in 2002-03 and 2001-02 respectively," reported Xinhua.
In the first seven months of 2006-07 which began in April, 7,000 tourists visited the Ngwesaung beach resort, while 2,700 Chaungtha and 1,500 Ngapali. The statistics also show that Ngwesaung beach resort has 21 hotels with 800 rooms, while Chaungtha 14 with 300 rooms and Ngapali 12 with 200 rooms.
Recently, it was shared that Myanmar´s Yangon International Airport, which is under extension, would have the capacity of accommodating larger aircraft such as Boeing-747 on completion. The new airport on completion can also handle about 2.7 million passengers a year against the present 500,000.
Ngwesaung´s silvery beach, about 30 miles from the town of Pathein, stretches for nine miles from Zee-Maw Village in the north to Majee-Maw Village in the south with its scenic and occasionally rocky shoreline, all set against a backdrop of tropical rain forests and the towering Rakhine mountain range.
According to a Xinhua report, the number of tourists coming to Ngwesaung has exceeded that arriving at the five-kilometer Ngapali beach resort, which lies on the western Rakhine coast near Thandwe and traditionally attracted the largest number of travelers in the past. The report added that once the airport is built, the Ngwesaung beach resort will become the second which is accessible by air after Ngapali. Following Ngapali and Ngwesaung, the two-kilometer Chaungtha, which is also in the Ayeyawaddy division, stands as the third beach resort in Myanmar that invited large number of visitors.
Tourist arrivals in Myanmar increased annually in the past five years registering at 660,206 in the fiscal year of 2005-06 which ended in March, up from 656,000 in 2004-05, 590,000 in 2003-04 and about 470,000 in 2002-03 and 2001-02 respectively," reported Xinhua.
In the first seven months of 2006-07 which began in April, 7,000 tourists visited the Ngwesaung beach resort, while 2,700 Chaungtha and 1,500 Ngapali. The statistics also show that Ngwesaung beach resort has 21 hotels with 800 rooms, while Chaungtha 14 with 300 rooms and Ngapali 12 with 200 rooms.
