Around 129 million tourists visited ASEAN in 2018 - a 7.6% growth from the year before, according to a statement by Asean Tourism Federation.

In 2018, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia saw the highest number of tourist arrivals.

Thailand received 38.15 million tourists, Malaysia, 23.47 million, Singapore, 16.90 million, Vietnam, 15.49 million, Indonesia, 14.39 million, the Philippines, 6.43 million, Cambodia, 6.20 million, Laos, 4.18 million, Myanmar, 3.55 million and Brunei, 0.20 million.

Vietnam saw 19.9 per cent growth rate, Indonesia, 11.6 per cent, Cambodia, 11 per cent, Laos, 8.2 per cent, Thailand, 7.2 per cent, Singapore, 6.6 per cent, Brunei, 4.5 per cent, Myanmar, 3.1 per cent while Malaysia’s tourist arrival rate declined by 0.1 per cent.

China topped the list of tourists who entered the country with visa with 297,400, followed by Thailand with 291,231, Japan with 104,376, the US with 65,057, South Korea with 63,911, Singapore with 58,657, Vietnam with 53,329, Malaysia with 47,632, India with 43,281, France with 43,218 and the UK with 36,609.

Chinese tourist arrival rate increased by 39.86 per cent, Korea by 10.67 per cent and Thailand by 6.33 per cent.

Yangon, Mandalay and Shan received the highest number of tourist arrivals.

Myanmar received 4.6 million tourists in 2015, 2.91 million in 2016, 3.44 million in 2017 and 3.55 million in 2018, according to the figure from Ministry of Hotel and Tourism.