Vietnam Travel News

Thousands of people flock to a cool beach in Quy Nhon City during the summer.

The Victoria Chau Doc Hotel, a member of Victoria Hotels & Resorts, will run its sixth annual Dragon Boat Races on the Bassac River in Chau Doc Town, An Giang Province on June 3.

Nha Trang PetroVietnam Joint Stock Company on May 25th broke ground for a golf and eco-villa complex in Khanh Hoa.

As the flight route between Hanoi and Nha Trang is always crowded in summer, Vietnam Airlines has launched four flights a day, and the figure goes down one flight a day during other seasons of the year.

The “Vietnam Week” and a photo exhibition on Vietnam kicked off in Mexico on May 25 as part of activities to mark 35 years of Vietnam-Mexico diplomatic ties.

She was born and grew up in Potsdam, a former old imperial city just like Hue, and she said she had always dreamt of working in a place full of antiques and paintings. She is Andrea Teufel, who had worked for seven years restoring paintings in the world heritage site.

The project to upgrade Cam Ranh Port in order to transform it into a key regional port kicked off yesterday in central Khanh Hoa Province by Viet Nam Maritime Corporation.

Vietnamese folk singing or “Quan Ho Bac Ninh” has been included in the list of “Best in Asia 2010” published by the US magazine The Times.

Director Le Quy Duong will be responsible for arranging the “Night at Royal Palace” festival on June 5, 8, 11 at the Hue royal palace, which will rebuild the live in the Nguyen Dynasty’s royal palace.

The festival will open in early June. To prepare for this magnificent event, the organizing board has built imposing stages with modern lighting and audio systems.

Experts and entrepreneurs have suggested suitable locations to build ports for cruise ships and cruise tourism centers as well as measures to develop products, policies and marketing activities to boost the segment in the future.

Vietnam Airlines will launch at least two more short-haul air routes next month to improve its direct air connections among the country’s major cities and other destinations.

Visiting the Ca Mau Cape, the southernmost point of Vietnam, visitors will see an entangled network of canals and houses on stilts, as well as both a sunrise and sunset across the sea.

Vietnam Airlines will be admitted as a full member of SkyTeam on June 10 as announced by the national air carrier and the global airline alliance on their websites.

Some local travel companies are launching programs to encourage Vietnamese tourists to purchase tours to Thailand, possibly from early next month as the country’s political situation is returning to normal after the end of the strikes in central Bangkok.