Vietnam Travel News

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines clocked in its 9 millionth passenger in 2009 on Dec. 24 at Hanoi’s Noi Bai international airport. Prized passenger Le Thanh Kinh, CEO and General Director of the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Petroleum Service and Ship Building Company,

The Central Highlands province of Dac Lak will set up a 200-hectare elephant sanctuary at the Yok Don National Park under a project to preserve wild and domestic elephants.

Vietnamese and French archaeologists have discovered a palaeontological site dating back from over 100,000 years ago in Da Den Cave in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang.

Domestic and foreign visitors will soon have the chance to learn more about Hanoi and its history by taking a “Thang Long-Hanoi city tour – a journey through history”, which has been designed in special celebration of the capital’s forthcoming millennium anniversary.

The Government has put forth a tentative plan to turn Phu Quoc Island off the southern province of Kien Giang into a special administrative-economic zone, which once materialized will open up resources for the island development, an official said.

Chinese low cost airline, Viva Macau, has announced it will open a direct air route to Hanoi on February 13, 2010

 On December 23, 133 passengers flew from Da Nang City to Hong Kong on an Airbus 312 that was chartered from Vietnam Airlines.

The car leasing market is growing ahead of the 2010 New Year as Vietnamese families look to lease cars for holiday travel.

Two national art festivals will be organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the Vietnam Communist Party and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi.

A special TV channel on the environment and natural disaster prevention, response and mitigation, VTC14, will begin officially broadcasting on January 1, 2010.

As of the lunar New Year 2010, the central city of Da Nang will offer tourists special shows of extracts of traditional tuong art at the Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theatre.

Located in Tan Binh Commune, Vinh Cuu District, Dong Nai Province, about 40 kilometers from HCMC, Tan Trieu Pomelo Village with luxuriant pomelo gardens together with fresh air and stillness is recommended as an ideal destination for Saigonese to have a change of air at weekends.

Tourism and travel companies are enjoying a boom in foreign tour bookings for the holiday period.

The government has named Dalat the “City of the flower festival” as the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is hosting a flower festival on December 22.

Songs and dances will be performed by Cambodian artists in Hanoi and Hai Phong as part of “Cambodian Culture Week” from December 23-29.