Vietnam Travel News

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is calling on local and foreign individual and organizations to make a new logo and slogan for marketing activities of the country’s tourism in the 2011-15 period, an official said.

Around 70,000 people will come to Da Nang to admire firework shows during the Da Nang International Firework Festival from March 27-28, reported the local Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, since all hotel rooms and inns are booked.

The race is on to book air tickets and tours for the Hung King death anniversary and Liberation Day holidays, even though the holidays are still a month away.

Saigon Tourism Petroleum Services One Member Co. Ltd. (SPSC Tour) has launched promotion tours with 30%-35% discounts and is offering VND1 million to each tourist who books a tour on March 22 or 29.

Vietnam’s tourism sector hopes the Impressive Vietnam Grand Sale 2010 program, which will take place in August and September this year, will prompt the development of shopping tours as tourist spending in Vietnam is still small.

The opening ceremony of the festival to commemorate the death of the Hung Kings will take place on April 14 nights with a programme of singing, dancing and music on an imposing stage of Vietnamese culture.

A seminar seeking ideas to promote cooperation in the tourism industry among the Central Highlands and Southern Central provinces took place in Pleiku City on March 24.

A painting exhibition opened at a showroom of the Judith Hughes Day Contemporary Vietnamese Fine Art in New York on March 24.

More than 700,000 readers visited the sixth annual HCM City book expo which closed on Sunday.

Travel firms are making every effort to find low-cost air tickets, the most important factor in keeping tour fees low and attracting travelers.

A public ceremony to announce tourism in Thua Thien – Hue province in 2010 and the parade program “For tourism” was held on March 20th.