{"id":3654,"date":"2024-01-25T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2024-01-25T09:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:09:19","slug":"bagan-hot-air-balloon-ride-attracts-more-local-tourists-due-to-discount25-january-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3654","title":{"rendered":"Bagan hot-air balloon ride attracts more local tourists due to discount25 January 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>25 January 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been an increase in the number of local visitors who ride hot-air balloons above Bagan to see the beautiful scenery from above.<br>As a result of balloon flight companies giving discounts, this has happened.\u201cThe hot-air balloon flight price was about K350,000 per person previously, so only foreigners could afford it. But now hot-air balloon companies have offered discount prices at around K250,000-K270,000 per person, that is why the number of local customers is larger than foreign customers,\u201d said U Kyaw Myo Win, director of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Bagan branch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, visitors from all over Myanmar are arriving in Bagan, and of foreign tourists, the majority are from Thailand, followed by Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-25_13-39-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3655\" style=\"width:842px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-25_13-39-39.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-25_13-39-39-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-25_13-39-39-15x12.jpg 15w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bagan&#8217;s visitor numbers began to rise last summer and visibly mounted as of last October Thadingyut period, resulting in a shortage of hotel rooms that even led visitors to stay in monasteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 January 2024 There has been an increase in the number of local visitors who ride hot-air balloons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}