Inlay Lake and the surrounding hills, the "Inlay Lake Region", form one of Myanmar's top four flagship tourism destinations, having received at least 250,000 visitor arrivals over the 2013‐14 season. It is Myanmar's most important combined cultural and natural heritage tourism area, being home to a diverse range of ethnic minorities, many of whom maintain unique, traditional ways of life, as well as being an important area of biodiversity and conservation, having outstanding natural beauty and providing vital livelihoods and income for local, regional and national economies....
