Myanmar To Build Airport For Beach Resort

Myanmar is planning to build an airport for a tourism-business-booming beach resort of Ngwesaung in the country's southwestern division of Ayeyawaddy to facilitate local and foreign travellers, hoteliers said today.

With a coast of extending as about 14 kilometres, the Ngwesaung beach resort is currently becoming a tourist site of its kind where most of the tourists are visiting.
The number of tourists coming to Ngwesaung has exceeded that arriving at the 5-kilometre Ngapali beach resort, which lies on Western Rakhine coast near Thandwe and traditionally attracted the largest number of travellers in the past.
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 2-kilometre Chaungtha, which is also in the Ayeyawaddy division, stands as the third beach resort in Myanmar that invited large number of visitors.

For the development of Ngwesaung beach resort, the tourism authorities are increasing implementation of hotel projects and other tourism-related infrastructure such as prawn-breeding ponds, the hoteliers noted, adding that the tourism projects in Ngwesaung will create more job opportunities for local people.
According to the figures released by the tourism authorities, 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.
Myanmar's tourism industry is signalling to boost in the current tour season.