With a forgotten temple city, Myanmar hopes to strike tourism gold
The Guardian, 11 July 2017: With a forgotten temple city, Myanmar hopes to strike tourism gold When time began there ...
Tag: tourism
News reports and information about tourism and archaeology in Southeast Asia, including news about specific archaeological sites, community tourism, and tourists behaving badly.
USM launches archaeotourism packages to bridge public and archaeology
Archaeology fans can get their hands dirty and dig up ancient artefacts at actual excavation sites in Perak and Kedah ...
Tourists behaving badly, in Bagan now
Coconuts Yangon, 07 June 2017: Naked tourists strike again, this time in Bagan. Some badly behaved tourists decided to strip ...
Angkor revenue up from due to price hike
Multiple news reports write that tourist revenue for the Angkor temples is up significantly, due in no small part to ...
Explainer: the rise of naked tourism
The Conversation, 29 May 2017: Remember when a couple of years ago, there was a rash of tourists taking naked ...
Old school building gets new life as the Bagan Information Centre
Myanmar Times, 26 May 2017: The JICA-funded tourism information centre in Bagan is scheduled for completion at the end of ...
Angkor tops TripAdvisor list
TTR Weekly, 24 May 2017: TripAdvisor announced the winners of its Travellers’ Choice awards for Landmarks, Tuesday naming Angkor Wat, ...
Borobudur price hike ruffles tourism industry
TTG Asia, 19 May 2017: The travel industry in Indonesia is complaining of an 'unannounced' price hike for admission to ...
At Myanmar’s tourist spots, a growing litter problem
Frontier Myanmar, 23 May 2017 The thoughtless disposal of litter by domestic travellers is creating a growing rubbish problem from ...
Bagan tourist receipts to fund road repairs
Myanmar Times, 16 May 2017: Some four percent of the entrance fees, collected from foreigners visiting the Bagan archaeological zone, ...
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