HOTELS in Myanmar are recording strong forward bookings from all markets for the upcoming high season from October 2011 to March 2012.
Chatrium Hotel Yangon sales and marketing director, May Myat Mon Win, said the hotel had so far recorded a 25 per cent growth in advance bookings for the high season.
The hotel’s occupancy rates for the January-July period had already risen by about 20 per cent year-on-year, she added.
At Shwe In Thar Floating Resort in Inle Lake, forward bookings for the high season were up 20 per cent over last year, with the hotel already fully booked from October to December.
According to Didier Belmonte, general manager of The Strand Yangon, European markets accounted for the majority of high season bookings at his hotel – 2,042, compared to 1,489 during the same period last year.
Belmonte added that guests from Asian markets were showing the sharpest (46 per cent) increase for stays during the peak period – 1,059, compared to last year’s 721.
He said most Asian guests were from Singapore (259, up from 120) and Hong Kong (98, up from 32), but the biggest growth was from Thailand (157, up from a base of zero).
