The connection between Thua Thien Hue province and its local areas to organize a national tourism year expresses in enhancing advertisements on electronic news, exhibitions, fairs….and festivals, including Festival Hue 2012. Festival Hue 2012 will take place from April 7 to April 15 with the theme: “Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development”, “Gathering world heritages and [...]
A conference on tourism promotion for the central Province of Thua Thien-Hue has been held in Hanoi to introduce tourism services and cultural programmes to the Province this year. The Hue Traditional Crafts Festival, to be celebrated from April 29 to May 3, will be the key event for tourists this year and will build [...]
The People’s Committee of Quang Ninh Province has ordered that tour boats operating on Halong Bay be painted white in order to renew their image following the bay’s designation as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. Most boat operators, however, are opposed to the decision. Under the provincial order, 500 tour boats operating on the bay must be [...]
Travel agencies in Ho Chi Minh City have been kept busy booking foreign tours as residents seek to take advantage of a nine-day Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. The number of bookings for foreign tours offered by major companies like Saigontourist, Vietravel and Fiditour have increased between 20 and 30 per cent compared with last year’s Tet season. Most customers are buying tours to Asian countries and [...]
The Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government two plans to bring foreign investment into the domestic aviation market. In the first plan, any airline with overseas investors had to show that its foreign partner held no more than 49 per cent of the charter capital. A Vietnamese individual or business was required to [...]
Travel firms hoped that with the long 3-day New Year 2012 and 9-day Tet holidays would help them attract more travelers. However, they could not anticipate so many difficulties. Travel firms making a bet Some travel firms in HCM City, including the big ones, on December 29, 2011, still invited travelers to book tours for [...]
From the first to the third day of the lunar New Year 2012, all relics in the complex of Hue ancient citadel will open for free. Phan Thanh Hai, deputy director of the Centre for Preservation of Hue Relics, said that all relics in the Hue royal citadel will open for free for all visitors [...]
A film crew from France’s TV5 channel has shot the Vit Co Xanh ecological village in northern Hoa Binh Province and Sao Bien yacht in Halong Bay, Quang Ninh Province. French film makers came to Vietnam under the sponsorship of Vietnam Adventure Company.A film crew from France’s TV5 channel has shot the Vit Co Xanh [...]
British and Vietnamese speleologists have found 25 more caves and grottos with a total length of 12 km in the buffer zone of the Phong Nha-Ke Bang natural heritage site in central Quang Binh province. Quang Binh province, on April 11, announced the discovery by the experts after a month of survey. Information collected in [...]
In the early morning of January 1, officials of the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports, the Tourism and the HCM City Tourism Association and the Vietnam Airlines Corporation welcomed the first foreign tourists to the city in 2012. The first group was 260 tourists from the UK, followed by nearly 300 Germany visitors on [...]
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