May Zune Win
Quick Facts
Biography
May Zune Win (Burmese: မေဇွန်ဝင်း; born on 21 June 1983), is a Burmese travel blogger operating in Myanmar.She won the 2017 "Myanmar Influencer Award" for travel, and featured on The Myanmar Times "Top 10 Travel Bloggers" list in 2018, and the overall "Top 10 Bloggers" list in 2019.
Early life and education
May Zune Win was born on 21 June 1983 in Pyinmana, Myanmar. She is the youngest child among four siblings, having an older sister and two older brothers. She graduated high school from Basic Education High School No. 2 Tamwe. She enrolled at the Dagon University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 2016.
Career
Starting in 2015, Zune Win was one of Myanmar's first travel bloggers, and has promoted Myanmar internationally as a destination, even during the military rule. She travelled around the globe and has shared her experiences on her Facebook blog I Love Travelling. She has travelled to 50 countries and wrote extensively about her experience as a tourist in each of them.
In 2017, she won the "Myanmar Travel Influencer Award", and was listed in the country's "Top 10 Bloggers" list of 2019 by The Myanmar Times.
In February 2018, she organised Myanmar's first "ASEAN Travel Media & Bloggers Trip" (FAM), a weeklong tour of Myanmar for travel journalists and bloggers based in the region, as part of efforts to repair the country's tarnished image abroad. She participated in the B2B literary talk made a discussion titled 'How do we try to be powerful and influential?' on 23 June 2019.
Zune Win is the managing director and owner of Eastward Travel Tours (or ET Tours).