case study-Myanmar oppertunities and challenges created by tourism

large variety of ecosystems, tropical island, raainforests and mangroves attract tourists to the country

• jobs in tourism accounted for 3% total employment in 2007
• total travel and tourism accounted for 1.35million jobs boosting total employment to 6.1% in tourism alone
• direct tourism accounted for 3.2% GDP
• indirect tourism accounted for 6.7% GDP
• attracts between 100,000 and 200,000 foreign visitors a year

• government corruption- lots of hotels owned by the government
• most of country's bdget (50%) (contributed to by tourism) is used in military spending resulting in 60% population living in poverty
• increase in tourist increases this problem

• 1 million displaced to improve attraction of cities and for new tourist developments (hotels, airports, golf courses)- in Pagan 5000 people had 2 weeks to leave and were given no compensation
• hundreds used as forced labour to build new tourist development and to clean existing ones

• due to fast pace of developing tourism, any environmental conservation is ignored creating negative long term effects