Myanmar Tourism Marketing would like to express its support for all displaced people in Northern Rakhine State and outside Rakhine after last week’s terrorist attacks close to the Bangladesh border. We do hope that all people from all religion or race will soon find safe conditions to live.
We continue to believe that tourism is a good way to connect people and to bring development and peace all over Myanmar for everybody from any race or religion and we do call to tourists all over the world to continue visiting Myanmar. Especially
now it’s important to make conscious decisions and choose to support everybody in the country. Please do visit Myanmar in a sustainable way to support people from all communities. Myanmar is an ethnically diverse nation of people living peacefully together. MTM realizes that tourism in Myanmar is still in its infancy and can only reach a limited number of areas and people, yet it is important to continue developing and expanding sustainable tourism
Myanmar Tourism Marketing Calls on Partners to Continue Support
(05 Feb 2021) Myanmar Tourism Marketing has called for overseas partners to continue their support and to stand with the people of Myanmar.
The situation remains uncertain following the military coup on Monday, but there has been no widespread violence, nor civil unrest.
Instead, people from all over the country, including from the hospitality and tourism industry, have been protesting peacefully and engaging in non-violent civil disobedience.
Myanmar is one of the most beautiful countries in south east Asia, yet it s tourism industry is still in its infancy. In 2017 Myanmar welcomed 3,443,113 visitor arrivals and 3,551,428 in 2018. In 2019 the number of visitor
March 26, 2021
TOKYO, 26 March 2021: Six private Japanese firms and a
Japanese state entity admit they paid rent on the Y Complex hotel and real
estate project that ultimately went to Myanmar’s defence ministry, according to
a Reuters report on Wednesday.
YANGON, 23 December 2020: Longtime Yangon resident and travel specialist, Edwin Briels, has been elected to the Myanmar Tourism Marketing committee for a second two-year term.
In a message to travel trade colleagues on
Facebook, he noted that the MTM would go into 2021 with a strong pitch to
regain consumer confidence with “soft stories and press releases.”
Briels headed Khiri Travel in Myanmar before opening his own travel venture Exploration Travel earlier this year.
Edwin Briels (Credit: Facebook)
Meanwhile, Myanmar resumed domestic flights
16 December after an almost nation-wide lockdown to battle the Covid-19
pandemic.
The Ministry of Health and Sports and the