On November 4, the Launching Ceremony of Tourism & Hospitality Trainings and Seminar on Enhancing the Chinese Tourist Market in Myanmar was held in Yangon. The event gathered over 150 attendees, including Dr. Thet Thet Khine, Union Minister for Myanmar’s Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, Myo Myint Aung, Minister for Economic Affairs of the Yangon Region, and Li Qianguo, Counsellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, as well as industry representatives.

Union Minister Dr. Thet Thet Khine extended her gratefulness to China for its care and support for Myanmar’s tourism development, hoping that the two countries will continue to enhance exchanges and cooperation in tourism and consolidate traditional friendship. Counsellor Li Qianguo presented the current development of China’s tourism and the tourism promotion strategies. The sales representative of Air China introduced international and regional airline products.

Funded and organized by China Foundation for Rural Development (CFRD), the trainings will last for 20 days and are divided into several categories, including new technologies, tour guides, travel agencies, and hospitality. More than 240 trainees from across Myanmar are participating in the trainings.