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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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