Vietnam Travel News

Liberation Day celebrations planned

International airlines to promote City
Tours fill up for upcoming holidays
Construction of jade pagoda begins
Malaysia Air offers new direct fights
Metropole opens luxurious spa

AirAsia Bhd, Southeast Asia’s biggest discount carrier, plans to operate its first flights in Vietnam in August with three planes, chief executive officer Tony Fernandes told reporters in Hanoi Thursday.

An international workshop aiming to find a model for Hoi An sustainable development is scheduled to be held from April 12-13, announced at a press conference in Hoi An ancient town on April 1.

A seminar entitled ‘Co-operation in Developing Tourism within ASEAN’ has recently been held in Da Nang city by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

The Saigontourist Travel Service Company welcomed more than 750 foreign tourists and crewmembers on the Amadea cruise ship at the Tien Sa port, Da Nang city on April 7.

The first Vietnam Fruit Festival, organised by People's Committee of Tien Giang Province, will run from April 19 to 24.

A meeting was held on April 8 for nearly 200 Khmers representing the families of war invalids and revolutionary martyrs, heroic mothers, workers, pensioners, and monks in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang.

The US international group Marriot is to build a 200-room hotel in the Saigon-Binh Tan Tourism Complex in the southern province of Binh Thuan.

18 years after they were stolen and sold abroad, four wood paintings in the set of ancient paintings entitled “Ten Kings of the Underworld” have returned to their home, Tram Gian pagoda in Hanoi.

Those spending time with the Tran Temple in the northern coast province of Nam Dinh either praying for good luck or merely admiring the fine ancient architecture of the ancestor worshiping structure should drop by an equally famous temple in Hung Yen Province on the way back to Hanoi.