Tourism Infrastructure

Italians invest US$3.2million in Kawthoung hotel

September 3, 2019 by Thiha

An Italian company has been granted permission to develop a hotel project worth US$3.2million in Tanintharyi Region’s Kawthoung district, according to the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA). The move will be carried out under a joint venture – Myanmar Green Century – with a local company, DICA’s director U Kyaw Win Tun told […]

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Myanmar’s tourism industry faces challenges

June 29, 2017 by Thiha

Myanmar’s tourism industry has experienced a significant decline compared to previous years. To understand the causes for this development the Global New Light of Myanmar interviewed U Thet Lwin Toe, chairman of Myanmar Tourism Entrepreneurs Association. Q: May I know current situation of tourism industry? The country’s tourism sector rose in 2012 like a tsunami. […]

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Luxury development to launch in Myanmar’s Ngwe Saung

June 17, 2015 by Thiha

A NEW mixed-use development is coming to Ngwe Saung’s shores by end-2017, where it will raise luxury standards, room inventory and tourism infrastructure. Developed by Karaweik Coast, a joint venture company by Hong Kong-based H&CO Real Estate Holdings and Myanmar’s Mya Bay Development Company, the project will come with 512ha of hotel space along 8km […]

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Cultural Attractions

November 11, 2013 by thiha

Consult-Myanmar welcome you to the 27th SEA Games Myanmar, 11-22 Dec 2013 Myanmar has some priceless tourism attractions but they need careful management The building stands seemingly forgotten, overgrown with trees and creepers, the red brick-work crumbling, empty of people, the ruins surrounded by a barbed wire fence. The site looks dull and deserted, hardly […]

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