Myanmar

Myanmar’s Ministry of Hotels and Tourism reports an over 50 percent drop in tourist arrivals for 2024 in light of ongoing political instability.

The Nepal government renewed its travel advisory for citizens planning to visit Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos on Monday, 23rd December.

MAI is offering travellers a chance to experience “The MAI Option” at a reduced rate. From November 1 through November 31, 2024. This exclusive offer is an ideal opportunity to explore new holiday destinations. Grab these limited seats and end the year with the journey of a lifetime.

The Indonesian government officially announced the implementation of a visa-free travel policy for citizens of 13 countries.

MAI offers four weekly flights from Yangon to Seoul-Incheon on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, catering to a diverse range of travel purposes, including weekend getaways, business endeavours, and cultural explorations.

Filipino food and beverage (F&B) firm G2G All Spice Eatery Group Inc formally opened the country’s first authentic Burmese restaurant Rangoon Ruby.

Myanmar Airways International (MIA) offers seamless connections from Yangon (RGN) and Mandalay (MDL) to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang (DMK) with 49 weekly flights. This is excluding 2 weekly flights to Chiang Mai and 2 weekly flights to Phuket.

In an interview with Brand TD, Tanes Kumar, Acting Chief Executive Officer & Chief Commercial Officer of Myanmar Airways International (MAI), shares more about the airline, its expansion plans.

Myanmar Airways International (MAI), Myanmar’s largest carrier, is continuing its network expansion as the airline added three regional destinations with Hanoi (HAN), Ho Chi Minh (SGN) and Phuket (HKT) during Oct 2022 and the recently  launched Phnom Penh (PNH), effective 23 November 2022.

Under the new guidelines, travellers are required to present proof of vaccination with an MOH-approved vaccine and a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test issued 48 hours before arrival

Myanmar has resumed accepting tourist e-visa applications from this week more than two years after the country suspended all new e-visa applications

Myanmar Tourism Marketing said it is now possible for international business and leisure travellers to visit the country if they are full vaccinated and meet the criteria to secure an online e-visa

Myanmar will reopen to international tourists on 17 April, the junta government announced after a two-year shut-down due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Myanmar has rolled out plans to resume international tourism early next year

In those days, Bagan was the biggest city in the country we now know as Myanmar, or Burma.  In fact it was a very religious city.  Staunchly Buddhist, whose citizens built over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries.  Of course, time is a great leveller, and now only about 3,800remain.  They are still very impressive, and very much worth visiting.

Centara Hotels & Resorts, Thailand’s leading hotel operator, has signed hotel management agreements (HMAs) with three new hotels in Myanmar

Khiri Travel Myanmar has announced that its joint venture partner in Myanmar, Edwin Briels, has stepped back from the partnership after nine years.

in September 2014, Myanmar evisa from India launched. It permits travellers to get their visa within 28 days. Thus, to witness the best glimpses, no better tourist destination than Myanmar. 

Vietjet coordinated with the Embassy of Vietnam in Myanmar and the two countries’ authorities to operate a special flight bringing 240 Vietnamese citizens from Myanmar back to Vietnam safely. The flight was an exceptional repatriation effort to bring back Vietnamese stranded abroad home after the suspension of international flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Passengers […]

A new and exciting DMC in the South East Asia region – Travel Exclusive Asia has been launched. The brainchild of tourism industry veterans André van der Marck and Gerben Bloemendaal and with wholly owned operations offices in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Saigon and Yangon, it offers remarkable tailor-made journeys in Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar. These […]