As the global network is well established, the world is changing toward the form of global village. One can travel from the eastern part of the world to the western within certain hours and information and data from a place can be reached any part of the world within certain seconds. It becomes more and more easy and faster to communicate between countries or between regions in political, social and business sections. Thus, the volume of traveler from one country to another is ever increasing. The world becomes smaller and tourism is booming. It becomes reliable business for development of the country. Cultural tourism, religious tourism, ethnic traditional tourism, beach tourism, country culture tourism, hiking and mountaineering tourism become popular and attracts many visitors.

Countries may distance geographically, but for tourism there are neither barriers nor limitations. Polar countries where are extremely cold, countries which possess deserts with very high temperature, countries with rocky mountain ranges, countries with deep forest of amazons, countries with plenty islands and archipelagoes, and countries which are underdeveloped and poor but with les population are attracting tourist with abundance of attractive tour arrangement.

Business nature of tourism is to provide services, and can make money in short time. So developing countries are giving priority for development of tourism in their countries. It requires low investment and it gives high turnover. It also can take the important role in increasing national income. So it’s dubbed as smokeless industries. In Myanmar, effort should be given to promote tourism to develop systematically. To obtain systematical development, natural environment such as lake, beach and other attractive places and traditions of ethnic should offer the best when the tourists give visits. To take advantage, varieties of attraction, good accessibility, nice accommodation and administration are required. Hotels take part in the industries as hard core and provide relevant services. In Yangon, hotels stand among the redolent of the monsoon, pagoda, palms and colonial colonnades stretching along a steamy waterfront, beside a wide flat river coated with a dull shimmer.

In Yangon, most hotels are so flexible on price (which includes 10 percent tax and 10 percent service charge) that they are almost reluctant to disclose a standard rate. Discounts can be upwards of 50 percent, especially during the raining season. But the hotels like strand are exception.

The strand on strand road by the waterfront is the elite period doyenne of the Yangon hotel scene. The strand Café, which looks onto street life, and the strikingly elegant strand grill, the prince of dining rooms in Yangon with black and gold began prints, chandeliers and vaulted glass rood. Afternoon tea at the hotel has become a Yangon institution.

The 21st century’s offer to the businessmen in Yangon is traders’ hotel on the corner of SULE pagoda and BOGYOKE AUNG SAN Roads. It’s operated by Shangri La Group. It’s one of the biggest Yangon business hotels with 385 guestrooms and one of its tallest buildings, with splendid wrap around views of the city. The 64Traders Club rooms come with their own lounge, check in and business facilities. A clutch of serviced apartments that are highly negotiable is also available. A standard room has a tea and coffee making machine, a safe and an ironing board. It has a cheap mini bar with a coke at us$2. There is a business centre with e-mail and fax facilities, a health club, there restaurants, a coffee shop, a pool and a clinic. It also has a very long, busy lobby.

Not far from traders Hotel, on ALANA PYA PHAYA road is the Grand Plaza Park Royal, which puts on a front as posh as its title. The façade and the marble lobby are magnificence in their size and design, spoiled by silly time-zone clocks behind the reception. A superior room goes from US$100 upwards. The floors are teakwood, the furnishing is tasteful, the size is generous and there is a lot of natural light. Orchid Club rooms have private keyed access and a very elegant lounge with complimentary snacks and beverages. Apart from a big swimming pool and a tennis court with a blank white wall that would do well for firing squads, the hotel is notable for its sauna facilities, which include massage room and a gymnasium. For golfers, they do a two night, twin sharing US$141 package to play at Yangon’s Pun Hlaing Golf Club.

Pan Sea Hotel

The governor’s residence (formerly the pan sea Yangon) is a Yangon boutique hotel rather off the main drag, managed by Orient. It is a restored teakwood colonial residence decorated with fretwork, bounded by wooden decks, which look over a sapphire blue pool and an orchid garden. In the house are a highly rated French restaurant, the Mandalay, an inevitable Kipling bar and a lounge. There are 45 guestrooms and two junior suites, with teakwood floors, sofas inset into windows with wood slat blinds and a big bathroom with a kidney shaped black stone bath.

Kandawgyi Palace Hotel

Kandawgyi Palace Hotel stands on the bank of Kandawgyi Lake. The hotel has a colonial wing, which includes a period theater for nightly dinner and culture shows. Mainly though, the theme is wood to a local design with a heavy Thai influence and a wooden viewing pavilion atop the building attached to the Presidential suit. Trees in the garden date back more than 100 years. There is an elaborate swimming pool by the lake, lakeside terraces, dining and bars as well as extensive business facilities and a very urbane French restaurant, Le Maison du Lac. It cannot be distinguished that the Kandawgyi Palace is either a resort hotel in the city or a city hotel with resort facilities but it has a considerable variety under its roof. A superior room starts at US$ 80. At the top of the range is the exotic royal Bungalow, with a petal strewn Jacuzzi at the bottom of the bed and an infinity swimming pool on its private terrace that seems to merge with the lake.

Also quite near the lake is the 303 rooms chatrium Hotel Yangon (Formerly Nikko Royal Lake Yangon) Yangon on Natmauk Road. It is one of the relatively younger Yangon properties but it is designed in English colonial style and, with its lush gardens and open air pool, offers the ambience of a haven in the city. In close vicinity you can also find some of the most magnificent sights and landmarks of Yangon like the golden Shwedagon Pagoda or the stunning Karaweik Palace. This is a Yangon business hotel to keep in mind.

Inya Lake Hotel

There is a another lake in Yangon: the Inya Lake. At the north end of the lake, right of its shore, stands the Dusit Inya Lake, a brilliantly white 211 room property that was built by the Russians in 1962. The soviets gave the rooms huge balcony windows and walk in closets. After occasional renovations, a great deal has been expanded on the glass frontage and this broadly spacious hotel has a very good $46, off peak. Ask for a room in the west wing. From there you get a mixed view of the 35 acres of gardens and the lake as well as an impressive sunset. The management has furnished. The rooms in the “speed Moderne” style of the 1930s.

The Savoy stands at the junction of the busy Dhammazedi and the fashionable Inya roads. It is one of the most successful small Yangon boutique hotels. The converted home of a colonial doctor, it is run and largely patronized by Germans. There are only 24 rooms and six big suites, simply but tastefully decorated. All feel very residential. Room service is 24 hours and you can get your clothes pressed for free. There are only two floors and no lifts, the size of hotel is small but it still manages to squeeze in an impressive variety of dining locations, from a European restaurant with a young German chef upstairs to an easy going Italian restaurant and private dining room. There is a cozy bar and a swimming pool in a courtyard setting. It is probably one of the best spots for value for money in Yangon.

Sedona Hotel

At the south end of the Inya Lake on Kabe Aye Pagoda Road stands a modern 366 room heavyweight, the Sedona Hotel, which greets you with a massive, stark, white lobby dominated by a rampant wooden elephant. Set in eight acres of garden, the hotel has a good view of the lake from higher rooms. There is a huge free form swimming pool and at one end of it a pleasantly decorated Italian restaurant, Orzo. With an upstairs view of the pool is a Chinese restaurant and there’s an Irish pub style bar. Guest rooms are bright and basic, but quite functional.

The Mya Yeik Nyo Royal Hotel and City Club. The original hotel building is prewar colonial and was once the residence of the general manager of the Standard Chartered Bank and the commander of the Japanese occupying forces. Everything in there is still wood fitted and period. The five guestrooms in this building are vast with very high ceilings and littered with odd bits of furniture like Myanmar dressing screens and antique dressing tables. The new, main building has very little to say to the old one. It is built in modern Chinese style involving lists of windows with net curtains. Carpets and fabrics in the 42 rooms are blue. On the other hand, the rooms are sensibly comfortable and, via a connecting door, some of them can be turned into a suite with a very large desk in the sitting room, which could be a great aid to traveler on business. It is learned that all the Asian guests want rooms in the new building and the Europeans all want to live in the old one. Mini bar Cokes were cheapest here at US$ 1.50.

Queen Park Inn

Queen Park Inn can be included in Yangon Budget Hotels Lists. This hotel is located in the city center most of the rooms have a good view of the city the rooms have the usual amenities for a good cheap hotel Air Con Hot Water TV and refrigerator as well as generator which can be important if you are there in a hot spell and the electricity goes out.

Motherland Inn Guesthouse

Motherland Inn Guesthouse. 1 & 2 are budget guesthouses. They live up to their name: very neat and tidy guesthouses with friendly staff. It is located a bit far out of the Yangon city center but worth it for the price and the amenities. They have air con room. They are at moms for its great breakfasts. The only big negative for the 2 Motherland is shared toilets.

Some hotel industries are run by associations, and YMCA is one of them. It is one of the oldest businesses in Yangon based hotel industries and it operates at low end from the beginning. Friendly and reliable expect the usual YMCA décor with transportation to the airport available. It will let you store luggage which is a very nice benefit if you want to travel to the temples light. Like most of the budget hotels in Yangon free breakfast is included into the guest room rates.

Hotel industries, large and small, are scattered around Yangon, attracting guests with own style and stretches out to major tourist sites in Myanmar. There are also many newly opened areas where there are required tourism related services. Besides, opportunities for the investment in developing golf courses, beach resorts, tourist village, amusement parks, and recreational centers are still tremendous.