US, Aug. 26 -- Myanmar Tourism Is Missing While Its Neighbors Boom Thailand is welcoming millions. Vietnam is breaking tourism records. Malaysia is expanding. Cambodia is competing for visitors, and even Laos has found new momentum through improved connectivity.

And then there is Myanmar.

Myanmar possesses almost everything a successful tourism destination could ask for.

Bagan is one of Asia's extraordinary archaeological landscapes. Yangon has the Shwedagon Pagoda and some of Southeast Asia's most fascinating urban heritage. Mandalay remains a name that itself evokes travel and romance. Inle Lake, the Irrawaddy River, Buddhist monasteries, beaches, mountains, food, ethnic diversity, and proximity to Thailand, China, and India should g...