Vietnam Travel News

The groundbreaking ceremony to restore and preserve Truong Bon historical site was held yesterday in My Son commune, Do Luong district, Nghe An province.

An exhibition displaying 150 photographs of peaceful daily life in Vietnam is being held in the Adlershof Cultural Centre in Berlin from June 25.

An exhibition displaying 50 works of calligraphy in Korean script based on President Ho Chi Minh’s prison diary opened in the central province of Nghe An on June 29.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on June 26 presented the Vietnam Tourism Award 2010 to 30 hotels, 20 travel agencies and 15 tourism service enterprises at a ceremony in Hanoi.

The Cambodian provinces of Kongpong Thom and Kongpong Cham on June 29 held a solemn ceremony to hand over the remains of 83 martyrs to Vietnamese provinces of Binh Phuoc and Tay Ninh.

More than 200,000 dignitaries and followers of the Hoa Hao Buddhist Sect gathered at An Hoa pagoda in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang from June 27-29 to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the religious sect.

A national seminar was held in Hanoi on June 29 to shed light on Vietnam’s tourism development in the international integration process.

A conference on tourism cooperation between Quang Tri province in Vietnam, Savanakhet province in Laos and Mukdahan province in Thailand was held on June 26 as part of the East-West Economic Corridor Forum in the central province of Quang Tri.

The streets are awash with the jeers and cheers of football-crazy fans crying both for joy and desperation

Things are blooming in Da Lat.
By the end of this year, nearly 17,000 cherry trees will be planted around a lake in the city already famous for its flowers.

The central coast city of Danang will contribute US$50,000 to Vietnam Airlines to organize road shows in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan this September to bring the country’s tourism products and services to Japanese travelers.

An exhibition of American artist Rania Ho and Malaysian Roslisham Ismail will open at San Art, 3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh District, HCM City on July 1.

Da Nang and Vietnam Airlines are making preparations for the opening of an air route from Da Nang to Japan this year.

The second National Conference on Tourism Human Resource Training will be held in August of this year by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and other relevant ministries and agencies, according to the National Administration of Tourism.

As part of the National Tourism Programme and the Great Festival to celebrate 1,000 years of Thang Long – Hanoi, the World Culinary Festival 2010 will be held in the southern coastal city of Vung Tau from July 21st to 27th .