Tourism Businesses on Burma ‘Dirty List’
Tourism and travel companies feature prominently in the Burma Campaign’s revised “Dirty Listâ€- a compendium of businesses which continue to do business with the military regime.
Over forty of the 154 companies listed have links to the tourism sector, including hotels, airlines, guidebook publishers, diving companies and tour operators.
Twenty-one of the tour operators listed are based in the UK. Tourism Concern is campaigning for
UK-based tour operators doing business with Burma to pull out until democracy has been restored, as requested by Burma’s democratically-elected leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Tourism provides significant revenue and symbolic support to the regime. Much of Burma’s tourism infrastructure was built using forced labour and thousands were displaced with little or no compensation to make way for tourism developments.
BBC Worldwide, which became the majority shareholder of the Lonely Planet guidebook series last year, appears on the Dirty List for the first time. Tourism Concern, the Burma Campaign and the TUC have been pushing for the Lonely Planet guidebook on Burma to be withdrawn. Any guidebook explicitly promotes and encourages travel to a country, whilst mistakenly signifying to tourists that such travel can be done in a way that does not benefit the military dictatorship.
List of UK operators is at:
TourismConcern.org.uk/index.php
Where letters of response from affected operators may be seen
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