Tourists from Italy arrive in Yangon

Yangon, 8 August

Under the supervision of the Ministry of Hotel and Tourism, with the sponsorship
]of the Ministry of Transport, and under the arrangement of Myanmar Lotus Asia
Tours Ltd, a chartered flight, Lauda Air Boeing 767/300 with 68 Italian tourists
on board, landed at Yangon International Airport for the second time at 1205 pm today.

Led by U Htay Aung, general manager of Myanma Hotels and Tourism Servicees of the Ministry
of Hotels and Tourism, departmental officials and responsible persons of Myanmar Lotus Asia
Tours Ltd welcome the tourists at the airport.

Some of the tourists will go on a Yangon-Mandaly-Bagan-Popa-Magway-Pyay trip and the rest on
a Yangon-Bagan-Mandaly-Inle region trip. They will depart from Yangon International Airport
on 15 August.It is reported that the tourists of the first chartered flight who arrived on 1
August left for Phuket at 1 pm today.