Vietnam Travel News

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) and the European Committee (EC) granted equipment worth over 572,000 EUR to nine tourism training schools nationwide at a ceremony in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Sept. 10.

According to Department of Cutural- Sport and Tourism, in August only, the province welcomed and served some 515,000 tourists

Sapa has entered the autumn with yellow-ripened rice in terraced fields at the foot of magnificent Fansipan Mountain.

Sitting in his cyclo under the sun on a street in downtown Ha Noi, Doan The Ngoc, an employee of the Ha Noi Culture Tourism Co, waits for work.

Hanoi, HCM City, Hoi An and several hotels and resorts in Vietnam have won a number of Best Asian Travel Brands 2009 after a recent travel poll by the Hong Kong-based Smart Travel Asia online magazine.

 A forum has been held in the central province of Quang Nam to introduce its investment environment to investors from the Republic of Korea.

The north western province of Lao Cai and China’s Yunnan province signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at boosting their co-operation in the tourist sector at the Sapa Union Hotel on September 8.

25 black-and-white photographs of Vietnamese people by Spanish photographer Sergio Sanz are being shown in the city of Zaragoza, Spain.

Father Joseph Nguyen Nang was officially ordained as Bishop of the Phat Diem diocese at the Phat Diem Cathedral, Kim Son district, in the northern province of Ninh Binh on September 8.

A direct air route between Hainan and Hanoi will be operational as from September 27.

In spite of impacts from the global economic downturn and the spread of the A/H1N1 flu, the number of tourists to Vietnam’s Northern Province of Ninh Binh continued to increase since early this year.

The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vinh Phuc province has submitted to the Provincial People’s Committee a report on tourism development in the period from 2010 to 2020 and vision to 2030.

As soon as the Japanese firm Riviera/CKS Finance announced its withdrawal from a big hotel project on Pham Hung Road in Hanoi, a pack of domestic investors expressed their readiness to develop the project.

During the recent years, Kon Tum province has become well-known to tourists due to owning lots of neglected natural landscapes and historical relic sites.