Vietnam Travel News

Swedish company ScandiaVilla & Resort on August 4 broke ground on an international tourist village in the southern central coastal city of Tuy Hoa.

Once visiting the central coast city of Nha Trang, aside from the beach and the Cham towers and Nha Trang Bay with its many splendid islands and islets for relaxing and discovering nature, tourists should stop at Long Son Pagoda in the west of the city.

In the past week, business at Vietnamese travel firms has suffered as news spreads that the H1N1 is becoming epidemic in Vietnam. Flu and economic recession have driven down international tourist arrivals dramatically.

Once visiting the central coast city of Nha Trang, aside from the beach and the Cham towers and Nha Trang Bay with its many splendid islands and islets for relaxing and discovering nature, tourists should stop at Long Son Pagoda in the west of the city.

More than 100 people were present at professor Tran Van Khe’s house in HCM City on the rainy evening of August 1 to listen to his presentation entitled “Traditional Music – Non-Exotic Development”.

En route to the famous Tam Coc-Bich Dong tourist site in the northern province of Ninh Binh is Thung Nang (Sunny Valley), a popular new destination for locals and tourists exploring Vietnam’s north.

 Nearly 200 students and lecturers from Asia-Pacific countries are taking part in an international summer camp run by the ‘Agence universitaire de la Francophonie’ (AUF) and hosted by Nha Trang University in Khanh Hoa province between August 2 and 8.

A film about President Ho Chi Minh when he was young is to be produced by the Vietnam Cinema Association (Hodafilm), and will be screened next May to celebrate his 120th birthday.

A set of Nguyen dynasty wood blocks has become the first piece of Vietnamese heritage to win recognition as a UNESCO Memory of the World, according to UNESCO Vietnam.

An agreement to open an air route between Ha Noi and the Chu Lai Economic Zone has been signed between leaders of Hanoi and Quang Nam.

Swedish company ScandiaVilla & Resort on August 4 broke ground on an international tourist village in the southern central coastal city of Tuy Hoa.

The number of foreign visitors to Vietnam in the first seven months of this year reached 2.17 million, a fall of 18.7 percent year on year, according to data from the Vietnam Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

The Hanoi People's Committee recently arranged a meeting in Hanoi to hear from the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism,

Nineteen correspondents from 13 international travel magazines will visit Vietnam starting August 5 to write about the country, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is intensifying promotions in Vietnam to deal with a decline in Vietnamese tourist arrivals. TAT deputy governor for international marketing, Santichai Euachongprasit, told the Daily about the TAT plan during his trip to Vietnam from July 27 to 31.