Halong Bay News

The 2010 Ha Long Tourism Festival called “Ha Long-Thang Long” will be held at the Bai Chay Tourism Site and in surrounding areas from April 29 to May 2.

This year’s Ha Long Tourism Festival at the World Heritage site of Ha Long Bay will take Hanoi as its theme to celebrate the 1,000 birthday of the capital city.

The Halong Tourism Festival 2010 will take place in the northern border province of Quang Ninh from April 29 to May 2.

The 2010 Ha Long Tourism Festival will take place in the northern border province of Quang Ninh from April 29 to May 2.

A musical performance programme was held in Vientiane on March 12 to encourage people in Laos to vote for Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay as one of the seven new natural wonders of the world.

An American luxury cruise ship Nautica docked at Cai Lan port, bringing 1,000 foreign tourists to the world heritage site of Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh for the first time on March 9.

A tourist boat caught on fire and sank in Ha Long Bay during the early morning hours of February 28.

More than 3,000 tourists, mostly foreigners, visited the UNESCO-recognised Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh Province on February 14 – the first day of the Lunar New Year.

A total of 1,500 foreign tourists on board the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s Legend of the Sea arrived in Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO-recognised world cultural heritage site, in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh, on Feb. 9.

The delegation of Hanoi travel club has just ended their familiarization trip (farm trip) to Ha Long city on December 12 and 13. The trip is considered to be very successful.

The Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee has held a meeting to discuss organising the Ha Long Tourism Festival 2010, which will take place in Bai Chay and Ha Long City from April 29th to May 2nd, according to the Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

A tourism festival will be held in the northern coastal city of Ha Long from April 29 to May 2 next year as the city is making every effort to promote itself as a tourism destination and mobilise votes for Ha Long bay as among seven new world nature wonders.

Vietnam’s Halong Bay has continued to place in the top 3 landscapes voting with votes increasing sharply.

Quang Ninh province is planning to welcome 5.2 million tourists, including 2.4 million from overseas in 2010.