Vietnam Travel News

Kinh Bac City Development Share Holding Corp (KBC) will be the only investor seeking for permission from Hanoi authorities to build US$400 million five-star hotel in the city as two others decided to withdraw from the project.

The third Asian Indoor Games will be an excellent chance for Vietnam to promote the capital city’s image to those attending the Games, said Deputy Director of the Hanoi’s Municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mai Tien Dung.

The luxury hotel InterContinental Hanoi Westlake has won Vietnam’s “Best City Hotel” award in TTG’s Travel Awards 2008, just 10 months after its soft opening.

The up-coming Mekong-Japan Tourism and Cultural Festival is aimed at highlighting the unique aspects of local culture to promote Mekong Delta tourism, affirmed Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Tran Chien Thang at a press briefing in Hanoi on Oct. 26.

The southern coastal city of Phan Thiet enjoyed a colorful opening ceremony to its local tourism festival on October 22.

The central province of Nghe An has begun to determine 148 tourist attractions and historic places around which mining will be forbidden.

A 100-hectare casino is planned for pristine Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province People’s Committee chairman Bui Ngoc Suong told a conference on Thursday.

The “2009 Korea-Vietnam Friendship Night” was held in Hanoi on October 23 by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOIKA) to enhance friendship between the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Vietnam.

Italian writer Dacia Maraini will present a Vietnamese translation of her novel The Silent Duchess (La Lunga Vita di Marianna Ucria) published by the Nha Nam Publishing House.

Hau dong is regarded by some as a superstition, but the Institute of Culture and Arts of Viet Nam has asked UNESCOto nominate it as part of its respected cultural heritage project.

Representatives of 193 UNESCO members have passed a resolution on the participation in the grand ceremony to mark the millennial anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi in October, 2010.

Professor Tran Van Khe gave a lecture titled “Diversity of Dan tranh (Sixteen-stringed zither) of Vietnam” to folk music lovers and young people at his Ho Chi Minh City home on October 21.

National carrier Vietnam Airlines on Thursday said that it would open two new air routes from the capital of Hanoi to central provinces at the end of this month.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam has cut landing and take-off fees for international airlines by 5 percent in an incentive scheme to help carriers cope with the global economic slump.