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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 [...]
It’s a nice day for tourist guide Nguyen Manh Cuong and his 11-strong group of visitors when they travelled Ha Long Bay by chartered helicopter. Winging it: Passengers take a trip to Ha Long Bay on a Russian-made MI-17 helicopter. Cuong, who works for a Ha Noi-based Luxury travel company, has accompanied tourists on a [...]
National carrier Vietnam Airlines said its daily Ho Chi Minh City-Bangkok service will become twice daily starting December 1 as the carrier plans for more passengers from Thailand next year. Do Khoi Nguyen, Vietnam Airlines representative in Bangkok, told Thanh Nien that the new schedule, with one flight in the morning and the other in [...]
AirAsia, a leading regional budget carrier, announced on November 6 that it will start direct daily flights between Ho Chi Minh City to the world-acclaimed tourist destination of Phuket in Thailand. AirAsia will start direct daily flights between HCM City to the world-acclaimed tourist destination of Phuket in Thailand. (Photo: SGGP) Aside from its existing [...]
Foreigners from countries with left-hand traffic systems will be allowed to bring their right-hand drive vehicles into Vietnam with permission from the Ministry of Transport as from November 15, a new decree said. Currently, such cars have to follow caravan tours and are only allowed to enter the country through seven border gates in the [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The biggest jade block in the world arrived in Vietnamon the 999th anniversary of Hanoi. Its new owner Dao Trong Cuongdescribes the journey of the jade to Vietnam. Dao Trong Cuong (first from the right) and the giant jade block. According to Cuong, Myanmar usually organises two jade auctions a year which attract thousands of buyers from across [...]
My Nghiep brocade village in the southeast of Phan Rang, in Ninh Phuoc district, Ninh Thuan province is famous for its handmade tho cam (ethnic fabric). Tourists come here to see women weave fabric by their traditional ways. A tourist observes an artisan weaving brocade in My Nghiep village. The village has around 20 shops. [...]
The Finance Ministry has asked the Ministry of Transport to put into practice a policy drafted last year aiming to eliminate airfare caps on key domestic routes. The ministries decided in November last year to lift the price ceiling on domestic routes that two or more airlines serve. However, the transport ministry, which oversees aviation [...]