Vietnam Travel News

Hanoi, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City will hold various events to celebrate the 2010 International Francophone Day which is scheduled to run from mid March to early April this year.

“It is crucial to comprehensively implement all 8 solution packages to develop tourism in Da Lat city,”

The US cruise ship Nautica docked at Cai Lan port on March 9 bringing over 1,000 foreign tourists to Ha Long Bay.

Viet Nam and China’s Sichuan province will cooperate in promoting each other’s tourism by exchanging television programmes touting their tourism potential.

Together with 408 travel agents from 24 countries, Viet Nam took part in the annual International tourist 2010 in Tallin, Estonia’s capital during the middle of February.

Cai luong (reformed theatre) is struggling to keep its audiences, whose interests in the art form are being lost to modern entertainment in the cradle of its birthplace, the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, where it began in the early 20th century.

Accor, the largest international hotel operator in Viet Nam, announced yesterday, March 10, its strategic expansion plans including additional hotels within the Novotel, Mercure hotel brand, launching of the ibis brand and MGallery label.

An Ninh Thu Do (Capital Security) newspaper talked with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hoang Tuan Anh, about tourism prospects for this year.

The cheap flight airline Jetstar Pacific announced all of its global branches are applying the same promotion programme for 129 domestic and international routes starting from March 10-15.

Over 10,000 international and domestic tourists have arrived in Dang Thuy Tram infirmary in Pho Cuong village, Duc Pho district, Quang Ngai province, since the beginning of the year.

82 doctorate graduates, who passed the doctoral exams organised by the Le and Mac dynasties from 1442 to 1779,

A week-long exhibition and fair, entitled “Central Highlands in festive season”,

A wide range of cultural and sport activities will be held in the northern province of Phu Tho to mark the Hung Kings’ death anniversary and the Hung Temple Festival in 2010.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has proposed offering visas-on-arrival as a measure to lure more than 4 million foreign visitors to Vietnam this year.

Around 10 provinces will attend the 7th Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival for Ethnic Groups in the Northwestern Region to be held in the northern province of Phu Tho from April 14-17.