million for the improvement of in frastructure to cater to the tourism industry. At present Myanmar is planning its first "Visit Myanmar Year."Despite this competition,Thailand still holds comparative advantage in a number of realms. Malaysia has insufficient accommodation facilities,both in quantity and quality. Indonesia lacks experience in tourism management. And Singapore faces problems of high labor costs within the to urism industry. Our past
advantage is due to sectoral efficiency. Our future advantage lies in our ability to
manage our infrastructure both at a sectoral and macro level, especially to curb Bangkok's traffic problem.