Saigon Travel News

In the lead up to Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary, the Saigon Hotel’s restaurant on Wednesday introduces a buffet program themed “Hanoi in the heart of Saigon”.

A new food promotion at the Rooftop Garden of the Rex Hotel Saigon is on till September 30.

The HCMC Tourism Association plans to establish a yacht society some time this year for yacht owners and business executives in the industry to meet to discuss ways to develop local river cruise tourism.

The five-star Mövenpick Hotel Saigon reappeared in Ho Chi Minh City on August 1 after a complete transformation over the past five months.

Ho Chi Minh City sets a target of hosting four million of foreign arrivals, helping the country’s largest economic and commercial hub rake in 60,000 billion VND (3.15 billion USD) from the tourism by 2015, said a city official.

Only one "old quarter" remains in Ho Chi Minh City, a 300-year old urban area that has seen some of its most historic neighborhoods vanish amid the onslaught of development and commercialization, experts have said.

The HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has completed an inventory of historical-cultural relics in the city that it plans to recommend for recognition as national and city-level relics.

HCM City plans to offer a new tour to a painting village along the Saigon River in District 2 in September and will also inaugurate the Saigon-Cu Chi-Binh Duong route as part of its plan to develop riverside tourism over the next ten years.

About 150 overseas Vietnamese students will take part in the 2010 Summer Camp to be held in 10 provinces and cities across Vietnam from July 15 to August 3.

Qatar Airways has announced a massive expansion plan for its Vietnam operations by opening a new route to Hanoi and increasing flight frequencies to HCMC from November, more than three years of being active in Vietnam.

Saigontourist Travel Service Co. has joined hands with its alliance, the Asia Cruise Services Network, to promote the Asian cruise industry and the country’s services for cruise passengers.

Saigon Tourist Service – the leading tour operator in Vietnam –received nearly 3,200 foreign tourists and crewmembers aboard five-star SuperStar Virgo which docked at HCM City’s Lotus port on June 21.

HCM City residents are spending more money this year on summer vacations as the economy begins to rebound.

Saigontourist Travel Service Company welcomed five-star cruiser liner SuperStar Virgo with 3,188 passengers and crew on board, mostly from Singapore, Malaysia and Australia, on June 8.

The Academy for Architectural Culture (AAC) and the Vietnam Architects’ Association (VAA) is to jointly host an architecture workshop, “German House in Ho Chi Minh City”, from June 11th to 26th, in Hanoi.