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Articles tagged “myanmar”

Tourism

Myanmar Tourism Is No Pariah at Asia-Pacific Travel Mart

It was mostly business as usual for Myanmar tourism at the Pacific Asia Travel Association's 2018 travel mart. With visitation to Myanmar declining from Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Myanmar is going after Chinese, Japanese, and Korean tourists. But so is almost everyone else.

Myanmar Tourism Is No Pariah at Asia-Pacific Travel Mart

Overtourism

Asia-Pacific Tourism CEO Points to Bad Management — Not Overtourism — as Key Problem

Words as a means to define problems and trigger solutions are important. The label overtourism crystalizes a problem and serves as a call to action. We'd agree that a lack of capacity management is a big part of the problem, but the latter characterization hardly spurs the urgency the issue requires.

Tourism

Myanmar Genocide Has the Travel Industry Searching for Strategies

Travel is the world's largest industry and should be taking a leadership position about Myanmar to publicly condemn ethnic cleansing, and show the country's military government that tourism dollars aren't unconditional if it supports crimes against humanity.

Myanmar Genocide Has the Travel Industry Searching for Strategies

Tourism

Asian Tourism Investment Looks Promising Through 2026, But Challenges Loom

As the world's fastest-growing region for tourism it's a good sign that some Asian countries can expect to see healthy travel and tourism investment during the next 10 years. But a number of factors could alter these projections, particularly the Chinese market, as more global tourism trends are tested in this region.

Media and PR

Pinterest’s Top Pins Show Contrast Between Travelers’ Fantasies and Realities

Pinterest's list of travel destinations represents where travelers wish to go while lists of check-ins and photos from other social networks show where they've gone. The difference in the types of places on each lists highlights the differences in travelers' fantasies and realities.

Pinterest’s Top Pins Show Contrast Between Travelers’ Fantasies and Realities

Tourism

Video Of The Week: A Handful of Myanmar

Tourism

Credit Cards Make Headway in Myanmar, But Tourists Still Need Cash

Even where credit card machines are present, there is no guarantee that they'll work. The seemingly antiquated method of travel payments is one of the more evident examples of how unprepared Myanmar is groping to deal with an influx of visitors.

Credit Cards Make Headway in Myanmar, But Tourists Still Need Cash

Tourism

Myanmar launches its first-ever nation branding campaign

It is a start, and a decent one at that.

Myanmar launches its first-ever nation branding campaign

SkiftX

9 tourism trends we’re tracking at Skift this week

9 tourism trends we’re tracking at Skift this week

Airlines

Myanmar to build new airport near Yangon, to cope with tourist influx