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Myanmar unveils 500-million-dollar tourism plan (dpa, Berlin)

dpa, BerlinMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News

June 05--YANGON -- Myanmar unveiled a 500-million-dollar plan to improve its tourism industry on Wednesday.

The plan outlines 38 development projects in tourism education and training, upgrading airports, river piers and road systems.

It was devised by the government and the Asian Development Bank with financing from the Norwegian government.

"The master plan outlines a path to welcoming more visitors to Myanmar without threatening our unique cultural heritage or endangering the pristine environment," said Htay Aung, minister for hotels and tourism.

The plan forecast that tourist arrivals would rise from about 1 million last year to nearly 7.5 million by 2020, when the sector would earn the country an estimated 10.1 billion dollars and employ up to 1.4 million people.

"Tourism will be a pillar of Myanmar's economy," Asian Development Bank Vice President Stephen Groff said.

Myanmar, a pariah state among Western democracies between 1988 and 2010 because of its poor human rights record, has undertaken dramatic political and economic reforms since an elected government came to power in March 2011.

Reforms led to the lifting of economic sanctions on the country last year and a surge in tourist interest in the long-neglected Asian nation that was under the rule of military dictatorships for almost five decades.

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