Yangon, in Myanmar, has lost hundreds of colonial buildings to rapid development over the past two decades. A handful of heritage hotels -- think teak mansions and grand colonial facades -- are ...

Next month the 74-room Yangon Excelsior – a renovation of the British colonial-era Steel Brothers company headquarters on Bo Sun Pat Street, Yangon – will welcome its first visitors. In December, or ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hotel Okura Co., Ltd. announced today that it will open The Okura Prestige Yangon, the first Okura Hotels & Resorts member hotel to operate in Myanmar, in 2020. For the ...

Slowly but surely, Myanmar is opening itself up to tourism. Though the infrastructure is still patchy in parts, particularly outside the capital Yangon, it’s encouraging to see a small but distinct ...

The positive outlook for the Yangon hotel market is based on the city’s growing popularity as an emerging tourist destination. This is reflected in increasing international visitor arrivals and direct ...

Located near Yangon’s iconic Shwedagon Pagoda, the Savoy Hotel Yangon is a peaceful retreat. The owners estimate that the colonial-era main building was built in the 1940s, originally serving as the ...

The blaze broke out in the middle of the night at the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, a lakeside hotel popular with foreigners. A huge fire has ripped through a luxury hotel in Myanmar’s biggest city of ...