Vietnam Travel News

Almost all seats to the central coastal city of Danang on Vietnam’s two leading carriers, Vietnam Airlines and Jetstar Pacific, have been booked, in the lead up to the two upcoming public holidays – Reunification Day and International Labor Day.

One hundred gigantic posters showing images of the Vietnamese country and people will be hung in 45 subway stations around Tokyo in 2010, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

The first Viet Nam fruit festival opened yesterday in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, one of the largest fruit-producing areas in the country.

Ha Noi will host the 22nd Joint Meeting between the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Commission for East Asia Pacific and the UNWTO Commission for South Asia from May 10 to 12, said Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan, Head of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism yesterday in Ha Noi.

The Diamond Princess cruise ship, with over 1,700 tourists aboard, anchored in the central city of Nha Trang on April 19, after visiting Ho Chi Minh City.

A village that features the values of the distinctive cultures of each of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups will be inaugurated in Dong Mo, Son Tay, Hanoi, in mid-September this year.

The dossier for the Giong festival has been approved for the first round in the process of seeking UNESCO’s recognition as an intangible World Cultural Heritage.

The 22nd Joint Meeting of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Commissions for East Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia will be held in Hanoi from May 10-12.

The southern province of Binh Thuan organised a solemn meeting on April 19 to celebrate 35 years of its liberation.

Vietnam’s first-ever national fruit festival got underway in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on April 19.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and Secretary of the Ninh Binh provincial Party Committee Dinh Van Hung beat the drum and gong to open the Hoa Lu Ancient Capital Festival 2010 on April 18.

The Government has approved the project to upgrade Yen Tu forest in the northern Quang Ninh province into a national forest, said local officials on April 18.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on April 16 publicised a national action programme to preserve two UNESCO-recognised forms of Vietnamese folk singing in the 2010-2015 period.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to upgrade the Yen Tu forest in the northern province of Quang Ninh to a national park to protect its flora and fauna.

A dossier on Truc Lam Zen Buddhism teaching wood blocks kept at a pagoda in northern province of Bac Giang has been submitted to UNESCO for its recognition as World Documentary Heritage in the Memory of the World Programme, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.