Articles tagged “myanmar”

Hacking the Burmese tourism website is a particularly effective way to bring attention to the government’s treatment of the Rohingya people to those outside of, and considering a trip to, the country.

As we said in our Skift Global Trends for 2013 report, the continued rise of Myanmar means hotel and other infrastructure would need a lot more investment, and now the likes of Best Western are being lured in with that promise.

Even if the international hotel supply triples in the next several years, the Yangon market still offers lots of opportunities for early movers, given the current anemic state of the hotel market there.

Well-traveled tourists are looking to get into Myanmar quickly before its unspoiled landscape is commercialized, but its fragile infrastructure could crumble from the overcrowding.

Many skilled management employees flee Asian countries to find work, which leaves global hotel chains with few local hiring options and hefty costs to import overseas employees.

Myanmar and Yangon desperately need more airport capacity, as the rush of tourists flow in.

Cruises are altering previous years’ itineraries in the South Pacific region to incorporate stops to Myanmar after political reforms opened the country’s borders to tourism earlier this summer.

In the gold rush to Myanmar, lots of uncomfortable thoughts are being pushed aside by tourists as well as investors.