What kind of tourist come to Sri lanka and what do they do in there.. ? bro
Well Sri Lanka gets many from around the world. Also Indian market is right next door too.
They have marketed themselves well as a smaller, wealthier, cleaner more organised version of India with overall more "tropical" feel....similar to how Kerala and southern parts of India have also done. Traditional tourism in India is the north Indian golden triangle which is fully cultural based (Delhi, Taj Mahal, Rajasthan)....so there is not a beach and coastline for people to enjoy (they gotta go to goa or the south for that).
So in SL many tourists can enjoy forts, temples, little villages....right next to sandy beaches....so they come from far away....also many do combined circuit of Sri Lanka, Maldives and South India etc. So they pay good money and they often return.
Myanmar needs time to develop more of the upscale infrastructure and also shed the image (civil war, dictatorship) so more people from Europe, North America, richer ppl from China, India, Asia come to visit and spend 2 grand USD or so per visit (or more). I think a really good idea would be for Myanmar to create a partnership with India to create a "Mandalay express" or something like that, that will be a luxury rail-based circuit that visits all the major pagodas, cultural spots and also beaches of the southern peninsula etc....because India has been very successful with "Palace on Wheels" and various other luxury tourist trains (Deccan Odyssey, Maharaja express):
The 5 Most Luxurious Trains in India
Similarly other countries companies can help you develop other sectors (SL for beach resorts, China for city/shopping tourism, Japan for heritage promotion + travel infrastructure) etc.
Also having a good solid domestic network of budget air travel is good to give options to the tourists for travel. But again this may take time since such a thing cannot be done tourist specific (more demand needs to come from Burmese themselves).
I am sure with time, Myanmar will be a big tourist hotspot. Right now its in the growing phase, it is seen as new, exotic and "untouched"....once you hit cruise phase, you will get much more money and arrivals.....but lots of the "new" crowd will have moved on to other places (I think maybe more parts of Africa, India etc at that point). It always works in cycles globally....the trick is to keep the cruise phase going as long as possible....for that you need to sustain interest, keep reinventing new things to do, make sure it does not become over-developed and damaging to environment etc. But Burma doesnt need to worry about that yet...and when it does, it can learn from Thailand right across the border what to do and not to do etc.
