Myanmar will reopen to international tourists on 17 April, the junta government has announced after a two-year shut-down due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thailand-based travel news publication TTR Weekly reports that travel firms are not optimistic they will see any bookings. Travellers will be wary of the security risks and are likely to support a boycott of the country. As long as a military junta that usurped power from a democratically appointed government runs the country travellers will go elsewhere.
Burma Campaign UK has just added 28 companies from 12 countries to its “Dirty List”, accused of feathering the nest of the military junta through commercial ventures.