Vietnam Travel News

Kon Tum province will send 8 gong troupes from 6 ethnic minority groups in the province, including 166 artisans, to participate in the international gong festival to be held in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) forecast that the tourism sector will have the biggest labour demand in Vietnam by 2015, accounting for around 15% of the whole country’s labour force.

Ones travelling to Vietnam would have chance to enjoy various forms of community tourism as visiting traditional craft villages, tasting pure ambiance of nature, taking agricultural tours, exploring unique cultural characteristics of ethnic minorities in remote areas…

The tourism industry is forecast to undergo a very tough time in 2009. However, with active preparations, good traffic conditions,

Con Dao, or Dao Ngoc (Pearl Island), lies in the East Sea about 97 nautical miles from Vung Tau City.

Although shocked by the scorching heat and the out-of-control city traffic, tourists are still keen to visit HCMC as it remains a fun place full of lively people who, for the most part, seem happy to be living here.

The local company Vina Media Joint Stock on Sunday started installing the first tourism information kiosks in HCMC, realizing its plan to set up 50 such kiosks in the city over two weeks, the company’s leader said.

Hanoians will have the chance to see dancing, hear bai choi folk songs and taste regional cuisine from Hoi An and Champa at the Quang Nam Culture and Tourism Week, held in the capital city from November 20-23.

A tomb has been excavated on Thanh Den Mountain, Thuy Nguyen District of northern city of Hai Phong.

A puppet play about King Ly Thai To is being made by the Viet Nam Centre for Culture Research and Preservation to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi.

 228,000 foreign tourists visited Vietnam last month, down 25.1 percent against the previous month, according to the National Administration of Tourism.

 Vietnam and Denmark signed a memorandum of understanding on cultural cooperation in Hanoi on November 2 during the current visit to Vietnam by Danish Queen Margrethe II.

A set of 2,000 year-old bronze objects were unearthed by Tran Xuan Quyen while building his house in Phuc Dien, Thach Dien, Ha Tinh.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition of photos on Gong Music in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, organized by the Vietnam Cultural and Art Institute and Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, will be held in November 6th, 2009.

Construction of a 100 million USD hotel and villa complex began in the central city of Da Nang on Nov. 2.