Vietnam Travel News

The stone steles at Hanoi’s Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature) were recognized as world heritage documents on March 9 at a UNESCO’s meeting in Macau.

To meet the cultural discovery demand of tourists, many regions nationwide are making great effort to restore, preserve and develop craft villages. The Binh An Drum Making Village is suggested as a must-see in the Mekong Delta Province of Long An.

Although tourism showed signs of recovering from the economic downturn in the first two months of this year, with foreign arrivals growing 27.4 per cent over the same period last year to a total of 900,000

Tourism and airline representatives from HCMC and China’s Sichuan met on Monday at the Kim Do hotel in HCMC to discuss opening an air route that would link the two cities to promote tourism between both destinations.

Authorities of Italy’s Florence province and its cities of Trento, Milan and Genoa have pledged to actively celebrate the millennium anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

The second Vung Tau International Kite Festival 2010 will take place from March 25th to 29th in Southern city of Vung Tau with the participation of nearly 30 countries, said the organising board.

Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang will be turned into a tourism and commercial hub for the country and the region, according to a decision recently signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Five firework teams from the US, Japan, Portugal, France and Vietnam will compete in the third Danang International Fireworks Competition to be held March 27-28.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has approved the opening of the Thang Long Royal Citadel Relic Site for visitors on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Twenty six countries, including new comers Senegal, Cuba and Mongolia will take part in Hue Festival in June, the festival’s organizing board said on Wednesday.

A leading luxury travel network has ranked Vietnam second on its list of up-and-coming travel destination in 2010, according to a report released

Local hotels only have room for half of the between 70,000 and 80,000 tourists planning to attend an annual fireworks festival in the central city of Da Nang this month, tourism experts said.

Thousands of pilgrims from Mekong Delta provinces, mostly ethnic Khmer, flocked to the Chua Doi (Bat Pagoda) in Soc Trang City during weekend to celebrate the restoration of the famous monument.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has ordered provincial departments of culture to control upcoming festivals to prevent damage from unsavory elements and events.

Passengers of at least 12 flights from Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport couldn’t do check-in procedures from 10-10.30am of March 7 due to a computer incident.