Visit Myanmar Responsibily
Responsible Tourism in Burma
(Interview) – In early September, Dr. Andrea Valentin accompanied a Thailand-based organization dedicated to promoting community projects in Southeast Asia and gave a series of workshops on responsible tourism and how to address both positive and negative impacts in Burma. She spoke to representatives from the government’s Ministry of Tourism in Bagan, and to members of the National League for Democracy at their headquarters in Rangoon.
She spoke with Thea Forbes of Mizzima about the key issues and the potential for responsible tourism in Burma.
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Be a Responsible Tourist
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Soft Adventure at Mt. Victoria
Enjoy the ancient Bagan ( 10 to 13 AD ), Trek to the Chin villages which located around the east side of Mt. Victoria and see the Dye and Mui Chin hill tribes peoples around the Mindat township. Read More
Explore off-the-beaten Track
Loikaw (home for the long neck-women) is for travelers who interested in the local hospitality unspoiled natural resources and still conserved on the tradition of the local peoples and their culture. Read More
Visit to the Naga Land
enjoy the upper parts of Chindwin river, see the beauty of Naga land and its hill tribes.
understand of the culture, customs, lifestyle of Naga peoples, meet more minorities of Naga tribes and trek at Naga land. Communicate with the local areas Naga peoples. Read More
Slow trek to the tribes
Kalaw is a peaceful and quiet hill station and good place for trekking amid twisted pines and harsh mountain scene.
The trekking route leads down into a narrow valley where the Palaung cultivate cheroot, tea, damsons and mangoes on the hillsides. Read More
Voyages into Culture Heritage Sites
Golden Rock pagoda,old MON kingdom Bago and the ancient Bagan, last capital of Kone Baung dynasty , Mandalay city, boat trip along the mighty Ayarwaddy river. Read More
Attractions of Delta Area
Twante is an important center of the ceramics industry. Myanmar archaeologists discovered hundreds of ancient kilns near Twante. The ceramics found near Twante dated from the 15th to the 17th centuries, CE. According to information there are still about 50 kilns. Read More
First National Ecotourism in Myanmar
Myanmar Holds First National Ecotourism Workshop
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Myanmar’s first national ecotourism seminar was organized by the newly created Myanmar Tourism Board (MTB) under chairmanship of Deputy Minister for Hotels & Tourism U Htay Aung, and was attended by around 90 participants.
During the two-day seminar, 16 specialists and operators from the private and public sector demonstrated their knowledge of the principles of responsible tourism as they apply to nature-based activities, and all were eager to gain support to further develop their ecotourism activities.
Presenters showed examples of responsible tourism practices such as the unique and intimate collaboration between fishermen and Irrawady dolphins by WCS, the Zee Oh Sacred forest by the head of the village, and the Kyauk Taw Yaung Private Sanctuary by Dr. Maung Maung Kyi of the Rakhine Coastal Region Conservation Association (RCA).
All these enterprises face the challenge of implementation in destinations to where tourists, driven by cultural experiences, are now returning, and in an economic context where the kyat has strongly appreciated against the dollar.
The MTB will pursue and develop more such workshops and educational training seminars to provide more input on how to implement responsible tourism practices at the destination level as well to educate local communities.
MTB will develop pilot projects at specific ecotourism destinations to raise awareness for both international and regional travelers and to diversify the product offerings. Such capacity building programs shall be developed with the expertise of international experts in the area of responsible tourism.
The MTB will submit to the focal ministry and related ministries the proposed schedule of the Responsible Myanmar Travel Conference & Exhibition (RM2012) planned to be held in February 2012.
For more information:
Download the presentations at: www.umtanet.org/new2011.