Vietnam Travel News

Luxury hotels celebrate Christmas in style
All regions in Vietnam are looking forward to Christmas. Luxury hotels are leading the way in preparing for the season with attractive Christmas displays and events.

Reporter Nicolas Cornet: “Sending the love with Hanoi in photos”
French reporter Nicolas Cornet has taken thousands of photographs of Hanoi and Vietnam during his shuttle trips to this S-shaped country over the last two decades.

Aussie tourists to Vietnam doubles
Vietnam is fast becoming a popular Australian tourist destination with a reported 128 percent increase in Australian visitor numbers for 2010.

Ho Chi Minh museum welcomed over 25 million visitors over the past 20 years
Since 1990, the Ho Chi Minh museum has received more than 25 million visiting turns, including over 4 million foreigners from over 60 countries and territories.

Air Mekong opens more routes
The Mekong Aviation Joint Stock Company (Air Mekong) from October, 2010has opened further routes to Da Lat and Danang cities continuing from its existing 8 air routes.

Expanding tourism in the US market
The Ho Chi Minh City Culture, Sports and Tourism will organise and lead a group of Vietnamese travel agents to the US to survey its tourist market from November 28th to December 9th, the agency unveiled recently.

Booking for outbound tours increases sharply
Preliminary statistics of major travel agencies showed that the number of people booking outbound tours to welcome New Year Festival saw a year-on-year increase of 20 percent.

Resort flak ‘a warning'
The National Geographic Traveller magazine ratings that list Nha Trang beach as a destination "facing trouble" have come as a warning to the local administration on the need for sustainable tourism development and management.

2,500 cruise ship tourists visit Vietnam
Saigontourist Travel Service Co. received the luxury cruise ship Costa Classica bringing around 2,500 visitors and crew in Ha Long City, the northern province of Quang Ninh, on November 23.

Cuisine festival has a cultural flavour
The third cuisine festival of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will be held in Hanoi from Nov. 27-28.

Khanh Hoa protests National Geographic magazine’s list
The authorities of Khanh Hoa province has protested the National Geographic magazine’s listing of the Nha Trang beach as the beach of unsustainable development.

Vung Tau’s temple for the drowned
Dinh Co Temple in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province was built after the body of a 16 year old girl washed up on Long Hai Beach 186 years ago.

Fest spotlights heritage cultural heritage
The sixth Viet Nam Heritage Day festival has begun at the Viet Nam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts on Hoa Lu Street in Ha Noi.

VNAT’s delagation joins “Hug Thailand Grand Rally”
A Vietnam National Administration of Tourism’s delegation participated in “Hug Thailand Grand Rally” tour hosted by the Thailand Ministry of Tourism and Sports, in the framework of cultural exchange and friendly relationship promotion among ASEAN countries.

Binh Thuan reschedules int'l yacht festival
The organizing committee of the first international sailing festival in Binh Thuan Province has rescheduled the event to January 15-18 next year, citing possible bad weather as the key reason.