{"id":101223,"date":"2017-05-07T02:09:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T06:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101223"},"modified":"2017-05-07T02:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T06:09:30","slug":"myanmars-shwedagon-pagoda-attracts-over-40000-foreign-visitors-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/07\/myanmars-shwedagon-pagoda-attracts-over-40000-foreign-visitors-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda attracts over 40,000 foreign visitors last month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shwedagon Pagoda, usually crowded with visitors from home and abroad during the open season, is featured by its best repository in Myanmar heritage, architecture, sculpture and arts. (Photo: Justin Vidamo\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

YANGON\u2013Over 40,000 foreign tourists visited Myanmar’s world famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon in April, the first month of the 2017-18 fiscal year, according to the Pagoda’s Board of Trustee on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Thailand topped the list with 7,749 visitors, followed by China with 2,295, Germany with 1,788, France with 1,626 and Japan with 1,453. In April of the FY 2016-17, the ancient pagoda attracted over 31,000 foreign visitors.<\/p>\n

The board’s figures also show that more than 500,000 tourists from over 40 countries and regions visited the Shwedagon Pagoda annually.<\/p>\n

Shwedagon Pagoda, usually crowded with visitors from home and abroad during the open season, is featured by its best repository in Myanmar heritage, architecture, sculpture and arts.<\/p>\n

It accommodates hundreds of colorful temples, stupas, and statues that reflect the architectural era spanning almost 2,500 years.<\/p>\n

In accordance with the statistics of the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, tourist arrivals in Myanmar reached over 2.9 million in 2016. The country expects to receive over 7 million visitors by 2020.<\/p>\n

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