Tourism in Burma - descriptive/analytical
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | Lonely Planet: Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | 07 September 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | # When to go # Sights # Money & Costs # Getting there & around # History ..."Travelling to Myanmar presents an ethical decision - Should you go? Check the warning below or go to our responsible travel section..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Lonely Planet |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.lonelyplanet.com/myanmar-burma/travel-tips-and-articles/76954 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | EcoBurma - travel to Burma / Myanmar |
| Description/subject: | | "Description: EcoBurma is a non-profit project established in 2011 by the Czech NGO Burma Center Prague. It seeks to promote responsible travel to Burma through awareness-raising and capacity-building. It also provides a platform for discussion and data collection... Encouraged by the NLD’s recent declaration in support of responsible tourism to Burma, we have developed the project based on our experience with awareness-raising about traveling to Burma...
Our Approach:
* Empower People: We want locals in Burma to have the capacity to identify issues related to tourism and the strength to defend their rights.
* Contribute Stories: We want to change the way people travel to Burma by raising their awareness. We won’t achieve this through classroom lessons, but through stories from travelers and locals.
* Own Your Choices: We want you to make an informed decision about your trip to Burma, in every detail. The choice is yours. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | EcoBurma |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burma-center.org/en/traveling-to-burma/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 March 2012 |
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| Title: | | WTTC tourism competitive index: Burma |
| Description/subject: | | Industry assessment of tourism in Burma - * Price Competitiveness;
* Human Tourism;
* Infrastructure;
* Environment;
* Technology;
* Human Resources;
* Openness;
* Social... By most counts, Burma ranks close to the bottom in a country comparison. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | World Travel and Tourism Council |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2005 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | Burma to rejoin U.N. tourism group |
| Date of publication: | | 16 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Burma is seeking renewed membership in the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO ), according to UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai.
He said President Thein Sein officially informed him that Burma wanted to rejoin the organization, as it is in the midst of upgrading its tourism sector..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Mizzima News |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Burma boykottieren oder buchen? |
| Date of publication: | | 23 January 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Wer in diesen Wochen durch das ärmste Land Asiens reist, begegnet wenigen Touristengruppen, aber einer wissbegierigen Bevölkerung, der Besucher herzlich willkommen sind. Ein 18-jähriger Informatik-Student, der auf dem Mandalay-Hügel die Mitglieder einer deutschen Reisegruppe anspricht, erläutert: Wir wurden hier zwar Augenzeugen der Ereignisse, aber sonst wissen wir so gut wie nichts. Tourismus nach den Aufständen 2007; tourism after the uprisings 2007 |
| Author/creator: | | Jürgen Diebäcker |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Der Westen |
| Format/size: | | Html (42 kb) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 May 2008 |
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| Title: | | Schweizer Geschäft mit Burmareisen |
| Date of publication: | | 10 October 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Im vergangenen Jahr beförderten die rund 30 Reiseveranstalter laut Schätzungen der Pacific Travel Association etwa 4'800 Schweizer Reisende nach Burma. Vor gut sechs Jahren, als der Schweizer Gewerkschaftsbund die Veranstalter aufgrund der flagranten Menschenrechtsverletzungen im Lande zum Rückzug aus Burma aufforderte, waren es etwa 20 Veranstalter, die rund 3'500 Reisende nach Burma schickten. Entgegen den Interpretationen in den Medien deuten die Zahlen darauf hin, dass weniger die Reisenden als die Reiseveranstalter resistent gegenüber Boykottaufrufen für Burmareisen sind. Tourismus-Statistiken; statistics on tourism; Swiss travel agencies in Burma; |
| Author/creator: | | Christine Plüss |
| Language: | | Deutsch, German |
| Source/publisher: | | Arbeitskreis Tourismus & Entwicklung, fairunterwegs.ch |
| Date of entry/update: | | 18 October 2007 |
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| Title: | | Roy’s Rough Burma Guide |
| Date of publication: | | July 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Thirty years after its first appearance a lot has changed—but much else hasn’t |
| Author/creator: | | Jim Andrews |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 15, No. 7 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 May 2008 |
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| Title: | | Tiffin Time Again |
| Date of publication: | | January 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Government involvement helps restore shine to Rangoon's Strand Hotel...
"Rangoon is a picture book of architectural gems from the years of British colonialism. But visitors have a frustrating time discovering them.
The city streets so carefully planned and built in the mid-19th century have been allowed by neglectful Burmese post-colonial governments to fade and crumble. Layers of soot and grime accumulated over the years make it difficult to detect exquisite art nouveau and solid Victorian and Edwardian features of buildings that, in their time, would not have looked out of place in bourgeois areas of London..." |
| Author/creator: | | Jim Andrews |
| Language: | | Engllish |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 May 2006 |
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| Title: | | Welcome to the Real Burma |
| Date of publication: | | May 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Tour guides aren’t scared to tell the truth...
"Burma’s independent tour guides can sometimes be refreshingly independent. San Tha Kyaw, the guide who welcomed us aboard the bus at the start of our package tour of Burma, was clearly no apologist for the regime, and his patter raised some eyebrows among our group.
A Burmese soldier rests in front of a stupa in the archaeological zone of old Pagan
“We are now driving along Pyay Road,” he informed us as we approached the city from the airport. “As we drive you will see that some parts of Yangon are not illuminated. That is because the government has established a rotating system to provide electricity to different parts of the city at a time. Our country is rich, but the people are poor. Our riches are taken by the military and big business.”
As the bus approached University Avenue, San Tha Kyaw informed us that Aung San Suu Kyi’s home was on this road. “But you cannot go there. She is under house arrest. She is a very nice lady, she is upright.”
A glowing description of Aung San Suu Kyi’s background, her life and achievements followed. “I can say that 99.9 percent of our people like her. Only 0.1 percent do not, and those are in the military.”..." |
| Author/creator: | | Tara Monroe |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 5 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 April 2006 |
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| Title: | | Mandalay: Birmas letzte Königsstadt |
| Date of publication: | | 02 June 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | Mandalay - allein der Klang des Namens war Grund genug, nach Myanmar zu reisen. Und noch immer leuchten goldene Pagoden und weiße Stupas in der Sonne und das Straßenleben fasziniert. Eine Radtour durch die Goldene Stadt; description of a trip to Mandalay |
| Author/creator: | | Antje Blinda |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Format/size: | | Html (86 kb) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 May 2008 |
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| Title: | | Mong La: Burma's City of Lights |
| Date of publication: | | January 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | "Cosmopolitan, garish and connected to the outside world via Internet and mobile phones, visitors to Mong La wonder if they are really in Burma anymore...
For a while it seems like a road to nowhere. Only army checkpoints and small clusters of huts indicate some life. Then, quite suddenly, the view widens into a valley and the road changes from dirt to tar. At dusk the city ahead looks like a space shuttle that descended upon earth. Abundant neon lights line the buildings. Along a wide avenue, street lamps flash like fireworks. This is Mong La, the capital of Special Region Number Four in eastern Shan State.
One wonders if this is still Burma. "Yuan," demands an old woman selling water when she is given kyat. A Chinese employee in the hotel hands over the key without the form filling and other paperwork so typical of the bureaucratic control elsewhere in the country. A condom in the basket of toiletries suggests there are other freedoms to be enjoyed too..." |
| Author/creator: | | Joan Williams |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11, No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Stefan Loose Reisebuchverlag |
| Date of publication: | | 23 July 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | Search for "Myanmar" on this German travel site. |
| Language: | | Deutsch, German |
| Source/publisher: | | Stefan Loose Reisebuchverlag |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Myanmar: Mit dem Tomatenbeet unterwegs |
| Date of publication: | | 01 April 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | Am Inle-See im Herzen Myanmars scheint es niemanden zu geben, der sich auf dem Wasser, in kippeligen Einbäumen und auf schwimmenden Beeten nicht ebenso sicher bewegt wie an Land. Für Europäer ist es deshalb eine wackelige Angelegenheit mit dem Einheimischen Suu Suu im Boot zu sitzen.Travelling lake Inle |
| Author/creator: | | Susanne Drießle |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Spiegel Online |
| Format/size: | | Html (80 kb) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 May 2008 |
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| Title: | | Mit dem Salonwagen durch Myanmar - 2000 |
| Date of publication: | | 2000 |
| Description/subject: | | Beschreibung einer Zug-Rundreise durch Burma; a journey through Burma by rail. |
| Author/creator: | | Ernst Löschmann |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Format/size: | | Html (90 kb) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 May 2008 |
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| Title: | | Interview with Informed Tourism |
| Date of publication: | | May 1998 |
| Description/subject: | | The Irrawaddy recently spoke to an "informed tourist" who shared his impressions of Burma after a visit to see the country with his own eyes. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol.. 6, No. 3 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | "Introducing ecotourism" and other business-related articles |
| Date of publication: | | February 1998 |
| Description/subject: | | Introducing ecotourism ...More State firms to be privatized ...Hydroelectric deal signed with China ... Norway imports more from Burma ... MOGE signs contract with oil companies ... Burma-Japan economic agreement ... Satellite deal with Shinawatra ... Iron sheet factory begins production ... Australia to produce pearl ... Pro-golf tournament planned/. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 6. No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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