Introduction
Geography is the study of human and physical patterns and processes that change over time and place.
Vision
To students with knowledge study of geography, a discipline grounded in earth and social sciences, in order to promote sustainable development in a world beset by environmental and socioeconomic issues.
Mission
To create a learning atmosphere that inspires students to research and learn about geography.
To foster an understanding of geography as an interdisciplinary topic among students.
To guarantee that geography students acquire strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities that will enable them to compete in the labor market.
To highlight digital applications in geography, critical thinking, and mathematical reasoning.
To encourage both theoretical and applied geography research, with a focus on studies of social value that are acknowledged locally and regionally.
To support academics and students in giving public lectures, and scientific advice as well as conducting feasibility studies in order to deliver pertinent and useful services to the institution and the surrounding community.
Welcome to Tourism Diploma Program
The perfect choice for your career
Welcome and thank you for your interest in our Diploma of Tourism programme of Yangon University of Distance Education. At the end of the 21th century, tourism has become the world’s leading economy. Since tourism industry plays an important role in the Myanmar economy, it is necessary to know about the tourist industry, but a smoke –free industry. Therefore, this program will teach about the nature and sustainability of the tourist industry. We offer the following programme:
- Post Graduate Diploma in Geography of Tourism
This program is quite essential, offering students the chance to further specialize their knowledge of tourism in an international context. We invite you to apply to our programme and become a part of our socioeconomic community, in advising for your future career in development of tourist industry, research or practice.
Syllabus for Post Graduate Diploma in Geography of Tourism

The long-term sustainability of tourism rests on the ability of community leaders and tourism professionals to maximize its benefits and minimize its costs. This course provides framework for discussions, directions, and development regarding tourism. Formally addressing the impacts of tourism facilitates planning that helps a community create a sustainable tourism industry. This module to achieve both sustainable development, and resource conservation, a clear understanding of the nature of the impacts of recreation on the resource base is required. This knowledge can then be used to develop an effective resource management strategy, given an appropriate institutional framework for integrated resource management.

This course emphasizes the socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries. The purpose is to provide an introduction to the tourisms development process, focusing on the less developed world and drawing on contemporary case studies. It questions many assumptions about the role of tourism in development and, in particular, highlights the dilemmas faced by destinations seeking to achieve development through tourism.
This course includes Geography and History of Southeast Asia Countries, related tourism industry. Through this study, will be able to understand about ASEAN Countries in detail and apply them to the tourism industry.


This course provides SWOT Analysis, research method and technique, Statistics method. SWOT analysis is a basic, straightforward model that provides direction and serves as a basis for the development of marketing plans. This module provides tourism components and supply and demand analysis. Through this study will be able to obtain some research methods and conduct research on the tourism industry as well as analyze the future of the tourism industry.
Our Teachers

Dr. Myint Myint Win

Dr. Yee Yee Myint

Dr. Moe Ommar Lwin

Daw Naw Khine Khine Htun

Daw Aye Myat Thu

Daw Yin Nwe Khaing
- ကွန်ပြူတာကျွမ်းကျင်စွာကိုင်တွယ်အသုံးပြုနိုင်ရမည်။
- English စာကိုကျွမ်းကျင်သူဖြစ်ရမည်။
- Assignment ကို သတ်မှတ်ထားသည့်ရက်အတွင်းမပျက်မကွက်ဖြေဆိုရမည်။
- Tutorial Test ကို သတ်မှတ်ထားသည့်ရက်အတွင်း မိမိအဆင်ပြေသည့်နေရာမှ မပျက်မကွက် ဖြေဆို ရမည်။
- Tourism သင်ခန်းစာများလေ့လာခြင်း Assignment နှင့် Tutorial Test များဖြေဆိုခြင်းကို မိမိ၏ network အစီအစဉ်ဖြင့် လုပ်ဆောင်ရမည်။ ထိုသို့ဖြေဆိုရာတွင် Network connection ဖြင့် လုပ်ဆောင်ရမည်။ ထိုသို့ဖြေဆိုရာတွင် Network connection များနှင့် မီးပျက်ခြင်း ကိစ္စများကို YUDE မှ တာဝန်မယူကြောင်းသိရှိရမည်။
- Exam ကို YUDE Exam Centre တွင်သာလာရောက်ဖြေဆိုရမည်။
- YUDE Home page တွင် ခရီးသွားပညာ လေ့လာသင်ကြားခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ ကြေငြာချက်များကို အချိန်နှင့်တပြေးညီ ဖော်ပြထားသဖြင့် အမြဲဖတ်ရှုသိရှိရန် တာဝန်ယူရမည်။
- သက်ဆိုင်ရာ semester အလိုက် သတ်မှတ်ထားသော assignment များ tutorial Test များသည် exam ကဲ့သို့ အမှတ်ရရှိကြောင်းသိရှိရမည်။
- Face-to-Face သင်တန်းကိုအနည်းဆုံးတစ်ကြိမ်တက်ရောက်ရမည်။
- Assignment နှင့် Tutorial ဖြေဆိုရန်ပျက်ကွက်ပါက Incomplete (INC) ဟုသတ်မှတ်မည်။
Please find our most frequently asked questions below.
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Who is it for ?
The Tourism Diploma is suitable for both business man and people who work in government organizations and non-government organizations. The Tourism Diploma degree benefits professionals working in a variety of eco-tourism, heritage tourism and research, business, and administration
How long does it take ?
The Diploma can be completed in one year. It includes tutorial and examination
What are my study options?
The Diploma Program can be studied online, which means you can study at the time and place that’s best for you.
How about the PGDGT Program?
PGDGT Program provides total 8 modules within one year. It includes 4 modules for first semester and another 4 modules for second semester. After completion of the second semester examination, students will submit the case study based project paper.
How much does it cost to join the program and what do we get by taking part?
- Registration fee is Kyats 10,000 and fee for first semester is Kyats 200,000.
- Fee for second semester is kyats 200,000 and examination fee is Kyats 24,000.
- Following registration, participants receive Student ID and Password.
Please contact us if you want to know briefly about us.
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Address
University of Distance Education, Yangon (47) A, Inya Road, Kamaryut Township, Yangon, Myanmar Geography Department