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The Myanmar junta says it has plans to resume international tourism early next year, according to Xinhua.</p>

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The Ministry of Hotels and Tourism have announced that in the first phase of reopening tourism, the Ministry expects to welcome visitors from regional countries. The ministry needs to make alignment with their reopening plans, travel bubbles or travel corridor schemes, the Ministry’s Public Relations and Information Department said.</p>

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“We are making necessary consultation with government agencies and private associations to systematically receive international visitors when airports and borders reopen,” an official of the department told the news agency.</p>

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The country suspended operations of international commercial passenger flights excluding relief flights, medical evacuation and special flights, and the issuance of all types of visas for foreign nationals from all countries was also suspended, following the report of the first two Covid-19 positive cases on March 23 2020.</p>

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The Information Ministry says land border crossings with Thailand will reopen next month ahead of a resumption of international air travel by the end of the first quarter of 2022.</p>

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Minister of Information Maung Maung Ohn said that once the country’s vaccination programme reaches targets and if global infection rates drop, they intend to resume international air travel arrivals in the first quarter of 2022.</p>