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 ...

The future remains bright for the Yangon hotel market and opportunities await for investors and operators who are willing to take them. Andrew Langdon is an executive vice-president of the hotels and ...

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 ...

Yangon is a city abundant not only with ancient temples and pagodas, but also a booming contemporary design, culinary and music scene. The city will gain its first lifestyle hotel in September with ...

Even if the international hotel supply triples in the next several years, the Yangon market still offers lots of opportunities for early movers, given the current anemic state of the hotel market ...

YANGON, Myanmar--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) today announced its market debut in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar with the signing of Sheraton ® Yangon ...

The United Nations is being forced out of billionaire Robert Kuok’s Traders Hotel in Yangon next month amid a tourism boom in Myanmar after housing various offices in five floors of the property since ...

There are currently about 8,000 hotel rooms in Yangon, of which 1,500-2,500 are of international standard. The expected supply and demand dynamics over the next few years will give operators the ...

Police are investigating a bomb blast that wounded an American guest at a major tourist and business hotel in Myanmar's main city of Yangon. The blast happened in the bathroom of a ninth-floor room at ...