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Coping with COVID: Resilience & Innovation in Myanmar

Yangon
Thursday, Jun 25, 2020
17:00
Hosted by Bertie Alexander
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About this event

How to cope with a crisis?

Despite the low number of confirmed cases within the country, the coronavirus pandemic has badly shaken the Myanmar tourism industry. It is facing an existential crisis.

But this is not the first crisis to hit the Myanmar tourism industry.

Out of lockdown have emerged stories of positivity and innovation. In this online roundtable we will hear some of these stories.

We will hear about initiatives set up to help the most vulnerable communities; how organisations have built up resilience; and how to place sustainability front and center of the travel reset.

Our guests are:

-Daw May Myat Mon Win: General Manager of Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon and Chairperson of the Myanmar Tourism Marketing Association
-Marc Short: Founder of Sa Ba Street Food Tours
-Nann Thandar Thein: Customer Service and Marketing at Khiri Travel
-Dr Andrea Valentin: Founder of the NGO Tourism Transparency

Join this online event if you want to find out:

-why during the crisis the Myanmar government dramatically changed the way it communicates with the private sector;
-how one tour operator in Yangon utilized its assets and kept its team busy during lockdown
-why DMOs will be of increased importance in the recovery.


👏 Organized by Bertie Alexander Lawson
📍 Event location: This is an online event
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