Hotels and restaurants are working hard to offer memorable evenings to mark year-end holidays.
A foreigner walks past the Seventeen Saloon Bar in downtown HCM City.
It’s that time of the year again.
And as usual, many hotels and restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City are gearing up for the Christmas and New Year season with special deals [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The representatives of 17 regional travel agencies, including Saigontourist (Vietnam), attended a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand and agreed to establish an Asian Cruise Services Network (ACSN).
Krai Panyarachun, the director of Bangkok-based SEA Tours, was elected as ACSN’s President and directors from the other travel agencies are now members of the board.
Apart [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Ho Chi Minh City, the nation’s commercial and tourism hub, hopes to welcome 2.8 million foreign visitors in 2010 after posting the first decline in arrivals since 2003 this year.
La Quoc Khanh, deputy head of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said the drop of 7 percent in foreign arrivals had [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Despite a decade of development, the Mekong Delta’s tourism industry has failed to show robust growth. Uninspired tourist packages, limited advertising, a lack of tourism investment promotion and poor human resources training, all plague the industry.
Thus, most tourists who visit, never return.
The Mekong Delta is a large and heavily populated region with [...]
Ba Ra Mountain in Phuoc Long District, Binh Phuoc Province is an inspiring ridge that can give trekkers a fantastic overview of the natural surroundings and a relaxing feeling at an altitude of 732 meters. The mountain is honorably called Genie Mountain by local ethnic S’Tieng people.
Travelers trek on the trail to Ba Na [...]
The development of tourism at My Son heritage site will be a major motivation for socio-economic progress in Duy Xuyen District in the central province of Quang Nam in the coming years.
World heritage: People in Duy Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province gather yesterday to celebrate the tenth year since My Son was recognised by the [...]
Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, pinning high hopes on the development of the country’s tourism industry, targets to triple its revenue to around US$10-11 billion by the year 2015.
Vietnam has 764 international travel firms, and a huge number of domestic travel companies as well as 10,800 accommodation facilities with 208,000 rooms.
In its tourism development strategy [...]
Few pilgrims are aware that the man who sculpted the giant statue of the Buddha of Happiness on top of Cam Mountain in the southern province of An Giang is the sculptor of many similar, but smaller, figures in pagodas across the country.
Mountain of joy: Lam’s Buddha of Happiness sits atop Cam Mountain.
For the [...]
Foreign air carriers are planning to launch several direct routes to Viet Nam, with the first due to begin this month.
Photo: Internet
Transasia Airlines will start flying from Taipei in Taiwan to the central city of Da Nang on December 26, operating two flights a week to begin with before possibly increasing the frequency next year.
It [...]
