Sustainable/ethical tourism (international)

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Description: "The UK's leading resource for ethical and sustainable tourism"....Search Results in TC For "burma": Burma: Not Black and White - Burma: Not Black and White... Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on tourism to Burma - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on tourism to Burma... What others say on tourism to Burma.... - What others say on tourism to Burma.... News - To go or not to go? Burma update... News - New petition demands Lonely Planet withdraws Burma guidebook... Burma - Burma... News - Burma and Lonely Planet: A personal look back... Displacement of People - Displacement of People... Sign our Burma Lonely Planet guidebook petition - Sign our Burma Lonely Planet guidebook petition... Burma and Tourism: Facts and Figures - Burma and Tourism: Facts and Figures... Add your Voice to Calls for Burma Tourism Boycott - Add your Voice to Calls for Burma Tourism Boycott... Campaign with us - Campaign with us... Tsunami of Tourism - Tsunami of Tourism... Campaigns - Campaigns... Displacement - Displacement... Working conditions - Working conditions... Past Campaigns - Past Campaigns... FAQs for Tourists - FAQs for Tourists... News - Burmese refugees trapped by tourism.
Source/publisher: Tourism Concern
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: About 30 links to groups/networks working on ethical tourism
Source/publisher: Tourism Concern
Date of entry/update: 2012-03-03
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Language: English
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Description: Headings: UK development organisations and resources...TEN (Third World European Network)...Indigenous peoples
Source/publisher: Tourism Concern
Date of entry/update: 2012-03-03
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Language: English
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Description: "More than 700,000 Chinese entered Myanmar on a zero budget tour in 2019 with over 300,000 of them through Yangon, said Minister for Kayin Ethnic Affairs Naw Pan Thinzar Myo during the ninth regular session of Yangon Region Parliament held on January 27. Yangon Region MP Kyaw Zeya asked several questions about the number of tourists who arrived last year on zero budget dollar tours, how much revenue was received and any government plan to ensure that zero budget tour benefits local ethnic entrepreneurs in one way. "From January to December 2019, 749,719 Chinese tourists entered Myanmar and of them 344,268 came to Yangon Region," the minister said. "In comparison with 2018, the arrival of Chinese tourists improved 73 percent in 2019. Increase is due to visa relaxation and our 'Look East' policy. As the number of visitors from the West decreases, our policy and visa relaxation for Southeast Asian countries help increase the tourist arrival," she said..."
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Source/publisher: "Eleven Media Group" (Myanmar)
2020-01-28
Date of entry/update: 2020-01-29
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Description: "Tourists visiting Myanmar from China are entering the country more and more in groups set up to keep money in the hands of their Chinese guides and travel agencies, creating a growing problem for locals working in the tourism and hospitality industry, sources say. Traveling in so-called zero-budget tours, the Chinese visitors to Myanmar lodge and shop only at places already approved, and eat only at restaurants selected by their guides. These restrictions are now leaving workers in Myanmar’s tourist industry with less and less to do, one worker named Myo Naing told RFA’s Myanmar Service in a recent interview. “We don’t have jobs now, and we don’t make as much money as we did before,” he said. “This is because if the tour organizers use us, it will be more expensive for them. They will have to pay us at least fifty dollars. And we won’t let them cheat their tour group or tell them things that aren’t true.” “Also, because we are citizens of Myanmar and official tourist guides, we won’t let them get away with doing anything untoward,” he said..."
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Source/publisher: "Mizzima" (Myanmar)
2019-11-14
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-15
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