FILE - Foreign tourists offer joss sticks as they visit Myanmar famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar Sunday, April 28, 2019. Myanmar has announced it will recommence issuing tourist visas ...
Despite a brutal civil war, Myanmar’s holiday industry is trying to revive interest in the army-ruled country. Hailing a "glowing sense of optimism and positivity within Myanmar’s tourism industry ...
After five years, Myanmar is replacing its tourism branding — Let the Journey Begin — with “Be Enchanted.” “Be Enchanted” Myanmar Tourism’s new tagline is as much a promise as it is an invitation.
These include the lifting of sanctions, the release of political prisoners and the floatation of the Myanmar currency, which is currently trading at about 850 kyats (pronounced “chat”) to the U.S.
The Ministry of Immigration and Population in Myanmar has announced that the issuance of tourist visas for international travelers has been temporarily suspended following the catastrophic earthquakes ...
YANGON, Myanmar – Democracy is slowly coming to this little-known country of more than 50 million people in Southeast Asia, and with it, so are the tourists. Isolated for a half-century under a ...
It’s important for peace and sustaining development through tourism. It’s important to visit Myanmar. Is it “the right thing” to visit a country that is published in a negative way in the news.
India, June 22 -- With everyone and their mothers-in-law having already been to Thailand, Malaysia or Singapore, adventurous Delhiites are now exploring newer and unexplored shores closer home. Once ...
Thousands of tourists have floated in a hot-air balloon over Myanmar’s historic Bagan plains dotted with more than 2,200 ancient Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries. Chances are they rode one of ...
Myanmar has been in the news lately due to the Rohingya crisis, which is attracting the attention of not just the world media, but also international visitors. While U.S. Secretary of State Rex ...
If you do not agree with the oppressive nature and policies of a country’s government, is it better to stay away and protest those policies by not spending your tourist dollars there, or does staying ...
BANGKOKBANGKOK — Myanmar announced Thursday it will resume issuing visas for visitors in an effort to help its moribund tourism industry, devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and violent political ...