Manila doesn’t have the best reputation. People who visit the city question it’s safety and complain there isn’t the cuisine, culture or architecture of other Southeast Asian cities. Their airport is poorly managed, infrastructure is old, and though it was one a beautiful city, most tourists try to stay in the safe havens surrounding the Greenbelts in Makati or Fort Bonifacio where lifestyle shops and restaurants protect you from the “real Manila.” And while these critics could be right about some elements, few ever take a moment to understand what really made the city the way it is now.
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January 13, 2012 – 4:24 am
Before delving into tips on traveling through Burma (Myanmar), I feel it’s my responsibility to briefly discuss its history first. Although the country is rich in culture and has many of the world’s most beautiful pagodas, strict control by the military regime over the past half century almost completely removed Burma from the tourist map. Human rights abuses, highly publicized crackdowns and murders of peace seeking protesters and monks, as well as the long-term house arrest of the country’s rightful leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi, were only a few of the reasons travelers boycotted the country as a form of protest against human rights abuses. Read more...
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Burma across cities and across budgets
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September 22, 2011 – 6:05 pm
Two years ago when I was at Horwath, the Chinese government coined Hainan as “the International Tourism Destination.” I’d been consulting on several projects at the time, and when people wanted my two cents, all I could say was this:
“In 2008, Hainan had more than 20 million Chinese visitors, but less than 1 million foreign visitors. Why are we so concerned about it being an ‘international destination’ when it can flourish with the domestic market alone?” Read more...
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Hainan isn’t an “international tourism destination”
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