Vietnam Travel News

Nearly 1.3 million Khmer people in Mekong Delta localities are celebrating the Sene Dolta Festival, a Khmer holiday to express their gratitude and appreciation to their ancestors.

The Festival Da Lat 2010, mainly a wine and flowers event, has been listed by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as one of major national festivals to be held next year to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi.

Quang Nam Province will introduce its special culture and tourism potential at the Tourism Culture Week – the biggest event of its kind to date – slated to be held late November in Ha Noi.

The hydrofoil from HCMC to Vung Tau gradually reduces speed. I exit through the side door of the hydrofoil and feel at ease with the difference between the windy and sunny world of the coastal city of Vung Tau and the cramped world inside the hydrofoil.

Professional and semi-professional athletes from several countries will travel to Vietnam for a 100-kilometer ultramarathon on the mountain slopes of Tay Giang District in the central Province of Quang Nam from September 30 to October 4.

The country’s tourism authority and travel companies plan to survey tourist sites in the south central region of the country to combine with local tourism departments to develop products for the region, a tourism official said.

Quang Ngai’s folk art troupe will perform traditional instrumental music as part of a Vietnam-RoK culture exchange on Jeju Island from September 24-28, according to the Provincial Literature and Arts Association.

 Chinese readers and experts have chosen the late President Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam as one of 60 foreign persons who have had great influence and played important roles in the last 60-years of Chinese development in the fields of politics, economics, culture and science and technology.

The country’s tourism development triangle, HCMC, Lam Dong and Binh Thuan provinces, have inked a deal to facilitate more effective and comprehensive cooperation in 2009-2012.

Vietnamese travel agent and tourism officials will tour the nation’s south-central region this month seeking new tourism products.

Three tourism hubs from the central and southern regions signed a deal to work together on developing their industries during 2009-2012.