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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The government of Myanmar has unveiled plans to spend $500 million on boosting the country's tourism competitiveness, protect the environment and safeguard ethnic communities. Alongside the Asian ...

Myanmar's 2010 elections might not have been exactly free or fair, but under the leadership of President Thein Sein, relations with the rest of the world have thawed, and more tourist have started ...

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 ...

Picture it: pagodas, palaces, parks—a paradise for photographers. Keep clicking. Through your lens you see the "new" and "mysterious," the "mystical" and "magical" Myanmar, also known as Burma. There ...