Vietnam Travel News

Tuning Hue into a cultural, tourism and festival city is at the top of the agenda of the city party congress for the 2010-2015 term, which opened in Hue on August 9.

A workshop organized in Hanoi recently, attended by officials and experts from many ministries and agencies, to set the standards to choose Vietnam’s national flower.

Visitors can listen to live shamisen music played by two young girls at a four day-long cultural event introducing the culture of southern Japan in Hanoi from August 10-13.

The National Tourism Year 2011, with the theme “Paradise tours to the Sea and Islands”, will be launched in the coastal provinces of Phu Yen, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan and Da Nang City.

Vietnam is willing to create favourable conditions for Chinese people along the border to travel deeper into Vietnamese territory and stay in Vietnam longer as tourists, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Location: They are located in Bac Lieu Town, Bac Lieu Province.
Characteristics: The early 20th century Western - style buildings have spacious surroundings, symmetrical architecture, and tile-covered roofs.

Nearly 40 Vietnamese silk paintings are on display at an exhibition that opened in the Vietnamese Cultural Centre in Paris , France on July 24.

Viet Nam is in short supply of tour guides with diverse language skills, but a working group set up by the Prime Minister says that regulations setting stiff professional requirements for guides are exacerbating the shortage.

According to the Central Highlands Lam Dong Provincial People’s Committee, the committee has provided the investment permission to a project to build a center for festival cultural exchanges of ethnic minority groups.

Petrocapital and Infrastructure Investment JSC, or Petroland, has said it will start building a four-star hotel in the southern province of Tay Ninh this weekend, marking its first step into the hospitality sector.

So far, Vietnam has received some 2.91 million international arrivals in 2010, in comparison with last year’s number of 2.17 million.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Phu Yen provincial People’s Committee held a meeting in Tuy Hoa City on August 7 to launch the 2011 National Tourism Year in Phu Yen province.

Famous for its beaches, the resort town of Nha Trang offers nature-lovers a special, “strange” experience in the heart of a private mangrove forest

Chatting over sizzling meat has become a favorite pastime of locals and tourists alike in Ho Chi Minh City.

Antique collectors are invariably patient and passionate but they also need to be experts to spot the plethora of fake items that are pumped into the market.