Data On Hotels In Myanmar, Visitor Arrivals Among Stats In New Online Database

Developed by the Central Statistical Organization in collaboration with the South Korean aid agency Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the Myanmar Statistical Information Service or MMSIS is a web-based national database of statistics about Myanmar.

The MMSIS is designed to provide statistical data and metadata to the public. It is aimed at responding to the growing demands of data users for various statistics that describe socio-economic conditions in Myanmar at national and sub-national levels and across various periods.

Users can download information from the MMSIS in Excel format in Myanmar and in English.

The statistics on the website can be searched by subject, region and alphabetical order.

For those searching information by subject, there are sections on trade, production, prices and inflation, national income, investment, labour and employment, social, services, finance, geographic, demographic and survey.

Those searching for tourism related statistics can look, for example, under H in the Alphabetical Order listings and find ‘Hotels, Motels And Inns Guest Houses By Type Of Ownership And By Region And State’. Under T there is ‘Tourist Arrivals At Yangon And Mandalay International Airports By Type Of Nationality’.

Tourist numbers to Myanmar are surging. The Ministry of Hotels and Tourism reported that 3 million tourists had visited Myanmar by the end of August 2015, and it has forecast up to 5 million arrivals for the entire year.

This follows record visitor arrivals of 1 million in 2012, 2 million in 2013 and 3 million in 2014.

Yangon, the country’s largest city and main international gateway, sees a large bulk of the tourists who will typically include a stay in Yangon during their travels in Myanmar. It is a city that offers exotic sights and sounds, air connections to the country’s other fascinating destinations and accommodation that ranges from budget, three and four star Yangon hotels to renowned luxury addresses like The Strand Yangon.

One of the most iconic five star hotels in Yangon and also among the finest colonial hotels in Asia, The Strand Yangon was built in the early 1900s and offers guests the charms of a bygone era with modern day comfort and technology. Throughout the property there is over 100 tons of teak, its bathrooms feature marble and old-fashioned taps and the staircases are thickly carpeted and decorated with Burmese Kalaga tapestries. The lobby is a magnificent enclave of flowers, potted plants and rattan furniture.

The 31 suites at The Strand Yangon boast high ceilings, teakwood floors, hand carved wood frame beds and ceiling fans that instill a delightful colonial charm, complemented with Burmese lacquerware and antiquities.

The Strand Yangon and other grand historical Yangon hotels enjoy a prestigious reputation in the city’s luxury accommodation sector. Belmond Governor’s Residence is a romantic, colonial-style mansion dating from the 1920s with 48 suites, lotus ponds, banyan trees, rattan furnishings, potted palms and whirring ceiling fans. Another property is Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, which opened in 1934 and is situated on the shores of the artificially made Kandawgyi Lake (formerly the Royal Lake).

Among the leading boutique hotels in Yangon is The Savoy, which offers guests the feel of staying in a colonial mansion in a fashionable district.