Coordination meeting on national tourism development central committee’s first meeting held

Union Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Maung Maung Ohn attended the coordination meeting on the successful holding of the National Tourism Development Central Committee’s first meeting yesterday morning in Nay Pyi Taw.
At the meeting, the Union Minister said the need to follow the COVID-19 rules and regulations set by the Ministry of Health and Sports as the COVID-19 prevention measures are required to be paid special attention.
The Union Minister added the implementations on the tourism development in the country with three steps: Opening of the hotels and tourism as the first step; Promoting domestic tourism as the second; Resumption of inbound tourism as the third step. As for the first and the second, hotels and tourism businesses were able to reopen successfully in respective tourist destinations and plans are underway to develop pilot projects in tour sites. He added the need to coordinate between the Government and the private sector in the resumption of inbound tourism by inviting the Chinese, Thai and Korean tourists.
He said it is necessary to supervise to ensure that there is no gap in the work of the sub-committees to successfully hold the first meeting of the National Tourism Development Central Committee and he called for a wide-ranging discussion of the ideas and plans and a focus on developing practical action plans at the national-level meeting.
Afterwards, Directors General and officials discussed the ongoing works in the respective sectors and the Union Minister coordinated the meeting.—MNA