Vietnam Travel News

A Singapore Festival will be held by the Singaporean Consulate General in Vietnam and the Vietnam-Singapore Friendship Association at the Thanh Nien Culture House in Ho Chi Minh City from August 12-16.

The art troupe from the Vietnam Center for Traditional Culture Research, Preservation and Promotion has lately conducted a number of folk music performances at Nguyen Hien Dinh Classical Drama Theatre in Danang city.

Travel company joint ventures are allowed to provide outbound tours on a trial basis from August 10, 2009 to December 31, 2010.

Vietnam is sprucing itself up to lure more tourists to local and regional tour routes in a bid to cope with a drop in the number of foreign visitors, triggered by the global economic downturn and widespread A/H1N1 flu outbreak.

A ground breaking ceremony recently took place in the Chan May-Lang Co Economic Zone in Thua Thien Hue province marking the start of two key projects: the US$875 million, 280 ha Laguna Hue Resort of the Banyan Tree Group (Singapore) and the VND1,279 billion Sai Gon-Chan May Industrial and Non-tariff Zone of the Sai Gon-Hue Investment Joint Stock Company (SGH), a member of the Saigon Invest Group (SGI).

The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang will open its culture and tourism week from October 1 to 6 this year, aiming to promote local tourism products such as eco-tourism, spirit tourism, community tourism, exploration tourism as well as honour its ethnic minorities’ culture identities.

US-based Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Tuesday launched a free hotline for guests in Vietnam to make reservations and enquiries to the firm’s 950 hotels and resorts worldwide.

Cultural, sports and tourism days of the Red river delta will take place in Thai Binh province from October 14th to 19th.

Phu Dat market in the southern province of An Giang is known as the biggest mouse market in Vietnam.

Hanoi is the capital and the second-largest city in Vietnam so it is the home to beggars from all corners of the country. However, many of them are disguised beggars, who are an annoyance for tourists.
A beggar at a pagoda in Hanoi.

Encompassing 700,000 hectares of land and water, Dong Thap Muoi is a distinctive low-lying area covering parts of Long An, Tien Giang and Dong Thap provinces and renowned for its interlacing network of river channels and canals.

The Viet Nam Tourism Property Association is expected to begin operating on Friday in HCM City.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) set up on Monday an investigation into why a Vietnam Airlines’ Airbus 320 burst two rear tires upon landing in HCM City last Friday.