Myanmar

• Language(s): Myanmar, several local dialects, some English
• Capital City: Yangon
• Local Time: GMT +6½
• Currency: Kyat (MMK 1 = 100 Pyas)
• Notes: MMK: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1,000. Pyas: 50
• Coins: MMK: 1, 5, 50, 100. Pyas: 1, 5, 10, 25, 50
• Dialling Code: 95
• Electricity: 220/230V AC 50Hz

Passport & Visa Info
The following details relate to holders of adult normal passports (requirements for children may be different), if any other type of passport or travel document is held, entry requirements should be checked with the relevant embassy or consulate.

Passports

Required by all.

Passport Validity: Passports must be valid for 6 months.

Visas
The following DO NOT require a visa:
1) Nationals of Myanmar.

Air Transit
Required by all except those as noted above and:

• Yangon (RGN)

1. Chiang Mai Package Tour: Free & Easy Package for $232, Yangon - Chiang Mai - Yangon, every Thursday & Sunday

2. Yangon - Chaing Mai - Yangon: Time - 1450-1620-1720-1750 (All time in local) for every Thursday and Sunday.

3. Lets play Golf in Chiang Mai: 'Golf Package Tours include airfare, hotel, two golf courses fees (Summit green Valley Chaingmai Country Club and Chaingmai Highland Golf and Spa Resort) and sight seeing tour with guide.
Contact:

The Myanmar Marketing Committee (MMC) will be participating and facilitating the following Travel Trade Shows. Please obtain further details and updates from Khine Wai Thwe or Thwe Thwe Tun at MMC Office: Traders Hotel, Level 3 - Business Centre. Tel: + 95 1 242 828 Fax: + 95 1 242 800 E-mail: mtpb@mptmail.net.mmThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , mmc@mptmail.net.mm

Bit 2010

International Tourism Exchange
February 18 - 21, 2010
Fieramilano
Milan, Italy

The Myanmar Marketing Committee (MMC) is endorsed by the Ministry of Hotels & Tourism of the Union of Myanmar and an initiative of the private hotels and tourism sector with the objective of marketing and promoting Myanmar as a destination so as to develop Myanmar Tourism Industry.

PARKROYAL Yangon, Myanmar has been nominated as Myanmar’s Leading Hotel in 17th World Travel Award. World Travel Award is the most prestigious award in global travel industry and Wall Street journal acclaimed as “Travel Industry’s equivalent to the Oscar’s”. The winners will be announced at Asia & Australasia Gala Ceremony on 14th October at The Claridges, Surajkund, New Delhi.

For the season 2009/10, the MMC's Travel Trade FAM Trips are to be launched from April ~ September 2010 for travel professionals worldwide including travel writers and travel photographers.

Myanmar (formerly Burma) facilitates the immediate entry formalities. Travelers arriving at Yangon International Airport now get a visa on entry. Forms issued by the airline and the airport of Yangon directly.

For the visa on entry a valid passport for at least six months, two recent photographs (4 cm x 6) and a return ticket are required. The tourist visa costs USD 30 per person is 28 days and not renewable. The visa for children fewer than seven years are free when traveling with parents or have their own passports.

Myanmar is a developing, agrarian country ruled by a military regime. The country's political situation is relatively volatile as the military government suppresses expression of opposition to its rule.

The country has begun to encourage tourism after a long period of isolation. Foreigners can expect to pay at least five times more than locals do for hotels, airfare, and entry to tourist sites. Tourist facilities in the capital of Rangoon, Bagan, Taunggyi, and Mandalay are adequate, but they are very limited in most other areas of the country.