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Saigontourist Travel Services (Saigontourist) on March 1 received 800 cruise passengers and crew members of the Portuguese cruise ship Athena, raising the number of cruise travellers received by the company so far this year to over 14,000. From the Saigon harbour, the travellers, most of whom are Australian, will join Saigontourist’s discovery travel trips from [...]
Loc vung trees on the bank of the Hoan Kiem Lake suddenly turned yellow on February 11. Youngsters flocked to the lake to take photo. VietNamNet/VNE
The apricot and peach trees in early bloom signal the advent of Vietnam’s biggest holiday of the year, or Tet. Around the country, families are preparing glutinous rice and other ingredients to make banh chung and banh tet for this Lunar New Year. A Vietnamese family wrap banh tet. Staff of the HCMC-headquartered travel …
VietNamNet Bridge – At La Dolce Vita in downtown Saigon’s ancient Hotel Continental Saigon, the sound of coffee dripping from the filter can be heard despite the ruckus from the street as this terrace café is partly sheltered from the city noise by a low brick wall and is situated at an angle that …
Vietnam will soon promote the country’s image on China’s television channels this year with an aim to attract visitors from the biggest market of Vietnam’s inbound tourism sector. Ha Long Bay. The Travel Department under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) says a film about the country’s tourism and an advertising video clip would [...]
A relic from the past offers a new way to sightsee the resort town of Da Lat. A restoration of the old train has added to the allure of Da Lat “It’s a pity that it is very short. I just want to travel like this from morning till evening!” American tourist Kim Fieldhouse echoes [...]
Local residents walk in a narrow alley in Hoi An. Falling in love with Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam is to fall in love with its wonderful alleyways, which for locals are the soul of their home town. According to the town’s documents, major roads in Hoi An, such as Tran [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]