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.

Despite a brutal civil war, Myanmar’s holiday industry is trying to revive interest in the army-ruled country. Hailing a "glowing sense of optimism and positivity within Myanmar’s tourism industry ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s important for peace and sustaining development through tourism. It’s important to visit Myanmar. Is it “the right thing” to visit a country that is published in a negative way in the news.

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of tech and social progress in Asia. When entrepreneurs Chit Hnin and Chit Moe traveled around ...

The boatman turns off the engine and lets his long boat glide along Myanmar's Inle Lake, as foreign tourists soak in the stunning scenery of villages built on stilts dotting the shorelines of the ...

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 ...

Ethical tourism made Myanmar a lost tourism frontier in Southeast Asia. But people are forgetting the genocide, giving the destination another crack. A second wave of tourism is emerging for Myanmar ...