The travel has boomed since the change of government in 2011 and some Myanmar travellers are spending big on luxury products in rich countries.
The government needs to stand by its pledge to accept an NLD victory and should disregard a number of vexatious election complaints from losing candidates.
The election might result in the lifting of US sanctions, but more is needed to break down the barriers keeping investors from Myanmar.
Voters may have rejected Ma Ba Tha’s anti-Muslim rhetoric at the ballot box, but the hardline Buddhist nationalist movement is far from finished.
BY Oliver Slow
