LONDON ~ Britain’s main trades union alliance have called for a boycott of tourism in Myanmar and for travel guide publishers Lonely Planet, just bought by the BBC, to drop its book on the country.

“The people that know the country the best – its trade unions and the Burmese democracy movement – want the world’s tourists to stay away from Burma,” said Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.

“The Lonely Planet book currently suggests that Burma is a perfectly acceptable holiday destination,” Barber added.