Showing posts with label Burma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burma. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 February 2020

Myanmar (Burma) sees world’s fastest tourism growth

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Myanmar ranked highest among the world’s 20 fastest-growing travel destinations last year, according to the United Nations World Touris...
Friday, 8 November 2019

#Myanmar (Burma) Road trip to Dawei Venturing south on a 4 day break

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Coming from a conservative and risk-adverse family, it took some convincing to push my relatives to join me on a journey to Dawei. For ...
Saturday, 5 October 2019

Nationals of six more countries granted visa-on-arrival into #Myanmar (Burma)

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The Myanmar government has introduced new regulations to facilitate easier access for foreign tourists as another step towards openin...
Sunday, 22 September 2019

Doing #Myanmar’s (Burma) Mergui Archipelago in style

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 . Burma Boating is set to launch monthly cruises around the Mergui Archipelago in southern Myanmar, combining two of the most sought...
Thursday, 19 September 2019

Micro-adventures in #Myanmar (Burma)

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The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change th...
Sunday, 27 January 2019

#Myanmar (Burma) - Bagan ready for heritage listing experts

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The Department of Archaeology and National Museums is ready to answer questions on the Bagan heritage area from the Inte...
Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Chinese, Thai companies join hands to develop tourist boat service in Golden Triangle

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Chinese and Thai companies signed three documents on Monday at northern Thailand's Chiang Saen port in a bid to develop boat trip ...
Monday, 19 March 2018

Myanmar - Uncontrolled development threatens Ngapali Beach

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Ngapali, the former top beach in Southeast Asia, plunged to number 25 in the 2017 ranking of the top beaches of the worl...
Saturday, 22 July 2017

Myanmar’s AIDS-related deaths decline 52% in 6 years

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A new global report says that Myanmar’s AIDS-related deaths have declined by 52 percent in six years. The UNAIDS report on the glob...
Thursday, 13 July 2017

Myanmar - Cambodia, Angkor Wat, Bagan to be tourist sister cities

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    As part of the ‘two countries, one destination’ campaign, the Myanmar and Cambodia tourism ministers will ink a Memorandum of Agr...
Sunday, 2 July 2017

#Cambodia - Thousands of migrant workers head home

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New labour law causes panic but many expect to return with valid documents  Several tens of thousands of  Cambodian and Myanmar migran...
Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Car rallies expected to rev up tourism with Thailand

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. Tourism between Myanmar and Thailand is set to accelerate after the Tourism Authority of Thailand and Myanmar Tourism Marketing Com...
Saturday, 3 June 2017

#Myanmar (Burma) Shwedagon Pagoda entry fee increase put on hold

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Shwedagon trustees have suspended plans to increase the entrance free of the pagoda for about six more months after getting a directive ...
Monday, 29 May 2017

#Myanmar (Burma) - Tanintharyi tourism committee seeks IFC infrastructure support

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. A tanintharyi development committee, operating under the tourism ministry and chaired by local tycoon Serge Pun, is seeking assistan...
Thursday, 18 May 2017

#Myanmar, (Burma) Golf tourism needs long drive out of bunkers.

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. Myanmar is far from a golf tourist destination despite having many courses in different cities, said U Phyo Wai Yar Zar, vice chair ...
Thursday, 11 May 2017

#Myanmar (Burma) - No airport extension in Ngapali until trash is slashed

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The tourism minister is very keen to “slash the trash” in Ngapali. . .   Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Ohn Maung told a multi-s...
Wednesday, 10 May 2017

#Myanmar (Burma) - China to restore Thatbyinnyu Pagoda.

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State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will sign an agreement for the restoration of quake-hit Thatbyinnyu Pagoda in Bagan during her visi...