Early October will see Japanese and Korean tourists being granted free visa on arrival when visiting Myanmar while Chinese tour groups will benefit from visa on arrival facilities. The information has been confirmed by Myanmar [Read More…]
Specialist WWII battlefield tour operator in Imphal, North East India, now offers tours into Myanmar to give tourists a fuller picture of the decisive Burma Campaign which started the downfall of Japanese imperial ambitions in [Read More…]
Rosewood just confirmed to have been appointed for the management of a new property located in a colonial building in Yangon. The luxury property is due to open before year-end. For Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, [Read More…]
Myanmar tourism statistics are finally been released. They confirm that tourism bounced back last year, passing again the three-million visitors’ mark. This represented a growth 18.5% over 2016. However, cleaned from border gateways’ arrivals, ‘real’ [Read More…]
Thai AirAsia is introducing a new route linking Chiang Mai to Yangon, Myanmar three times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays), serving the route with its large comfortable planes and on-time service. Special low fares [Read More…]
Food & Hotel Myanmar 2018, an international exhibition for food and hospitality products, is returning for its fifth year to Yangon on June 6-8 at MEP at Mindama Yangon. The event will present products and services [Read More…]
The historical site of Bagan with over 2,200 pagodas and stupas continues to attract more visitors for the beginning of the year. Over 200,000 foreign and local visitors came from January to April. More than [Read More…]
Myanmar’s government is planning to conduct a 10-year action plan on elephant conservation (2018-2027), which is aimed at preventing a decrease in the number of wildlife elephants and a reduction of their pasture land. Myanmar [Read More…]
Talks between AirAsia Group Bhd and a partner to open an airline in Myanmar have stopped, Group CEO Tony Fernandes told reporters on Tuesda, reports Reuters. Chief Executive Tony Fernandes told Reuters in March his [Read More…]
Fighting at Muse, a border town in Northeastern Shan state, is pushing some 20,000 Myanmar locals to take refuge in China, with possible tensions rising between refugees and locals from Yunnan. It is also jeopardize [Read More…]
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