Vietnam Travel News

I felt privileged when a group of American tourists invited me to join them on the Peace Trees Vietnam’s Citizen Diplomacy Trips to the central province of Quang Tri.

Phu Quoc Island will become an economic and eco-tourism hub by 2030, according to a plan unveiled at a meeting this week.

Saigontourist welcomes 1,250 cruise passengers
The HCMC-based Viking Travel and Media Company on Wednesday kick-started a motorcycle tour of 17 Harley bikes for Vietnamese and foreign tourists from HCMC to Thailand.

The golf tournament "Swing for Life 2009" raised VND1 billion (US$55,000) for charity on National Day.

The Vietnamese Embassy in London in coordination with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism launched a Vietnam tourism promotion programme in London on September 3 to introduce international friends to Vietnam’s land and people.

A variety of Brazil’s cultural programmes will take place in Vietnam from mid-September to mid-November, announced the Embassy of Brazil in Hanoi yesterday.

“Crazy House” – a strange, unique architectural work in central highland city of Da Lat – has just been selected by a Chinese daily as one of the ten most weird buildings in the world.

Vietnam harbours huge advantages in landscapes, old-age culture, favourable climate and hospitable people for developing the hospitality industry, a senior tourism Mexican official has said.

Visiting Hoi An ancient city, tourists can get lost in a city that shimmers with thousands of colorful lanterns along streets studded with old pagodas, temples and restaurants serving traditional Vietnamese dishes.

The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Binh Thuan Province announced that the province’s Phan Thiet City had lured 183,000 tourists, 17,000 of them foreigners, in August.

Only two of 15 golf course projects in the southern province of Binh Thuan have become operational. The remaining, which have been licenced since 2003, are still inactive.

More than 450 pacifists from around the world September 1 arrived at Tien Sa Port in Danang City on ‘Peace Boat,’ which recently left Japan.

Viet Nam received some 315,000 foreign tourists last month, up 16 per cent over the previous month but down 8 per cent over the same period last year, according to the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism.