Vietnam Travel News

In Hong Kim Commune, A Luoi District, Thua Thien-Hue Province, A No Eco-Tourist Area has three waterfalls described as three white, silk curtains. The scenery promises unforgettable moments during summer vacations.

Viet Nam needs to develop a modern tourism sector, based on its advantages in nature, culture, geography, politics and people, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

The 2010 Vietnam-Cambodia Trade, Services and Tourism Fair is scheduled to take place at the Koh Pich International Exhibition and Fair Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July 15-17.

Photographer Ta Quang Bao won the grand prize in the fifth National Tourism Artistic Photo Contest with his set of photos entitled ‘Central Highlands Gongs’.

Located in the east of Ba Vi Mountain Range in Ha Tay District in Hanoi, Thien Son-Suoi Nga (Son Mountain-Nga River) is famous for splendid sceneries with silver-carpet-like waterfalls and misty, dense forests on the mountain slopes.

For Khmer people, a pagoda is considered their spiritual house and sheet-anchor.

Rates advertised by high grade hotels in Hanoi in the second quarter of 2010 were twelve percent below their rates a year earlier. The biggest drop is at the five star level.

Vietnam’s tourism bucked the trend in June when it attracted 376,000 foreign visitors, up 34.6 percent from a year ago.

12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic will give performances at the Hanoi Opera House on July 10th and at the Ho Chi Minh City Theatre on July 11th.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on July 6 to mark 50th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam’s tourism sector (July 9, 1960-July 9, 2010).

Archaeologists working at a site in Ha Noi's Dong Anh District have stumbled across 11 tombs dating back to the Phung Nguyen culture, days before they were about to wind up the dig.

Tourism Australia has launched a Vietnamese language official website for customers at www.australia.com, the Australian embassy said on July 6.

Foreign MICE (meeting, incentive, convention, exhibition) tourists have begun returning to Vietnam after one year’s interruption due to the global financial crisis.

The first Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) forum on food security began in Ho Chi Minh City on July 5.

Thousands of objects belonging to Sa Huynh culture that dated back to 2,500-3,000 years have been discovered during excavations carried out in the Ma Vuong Mound in Pho Thach commune, Duc Pho district, Quang Ngai province from June 17-July 4.