South by Southeast: Who goes to Myanmar?

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Hey Adam - thanks so much for adding your measured voice to this debate. As you so eloquently pointed out, simply saying "don't visit Myanmar" does the complicated issue of visiting this fascinating place a great disservice.

Your point about the impact tourism has on private businesses rings especially true for me. In speaking with the owners of numerous restaurants and guesthouses, tourism has been way down the last few years, mostly due to the combined pressures of the Nargis Cyclone disaster and Monks' protests in 2007.

This fall in visitors was in some of the big "tourist towns" like Bagan and Mandalay - I can only imagine the impact has been worse in less well-traveled destinations.

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