Oktoberfest is a cultural festival that takes place in Germany each October. In Vietnam, the festival has been held annually in recent years and has drawn the attention of Germans and other Westerners living and working in Vietnam.
The RV La Marguerite river cruise ship started its first cruise from Saigon Port in HCMC, taking tourists through destinations on the Mekong River route between Vietnam and Cambodia.
Saigontourist Travel Service Company has just launched a new package tour to Singapore offering tourists the chance to watch the Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix 2009 that will take place in the island country this weekend.
In September and October, or so called tide-water season in the Mekong Delta, linh fish, a specialty of the Mekong Delta, make their annual appearance on the rivers where they drift lazily and wait to be caught.
Saigontourist Travel Service Co. on Wednesday arranged a special tour for 25 foreign tourists from Tetra Pak Company to explore attractions in the city on old-fashioned Vespa scooters.
Vietnam Airlines has offered an airfare discount of 60-70% on all flights from October 1, 2009 to January 3, 2010, said Nguyen Thi Minh Yen, Director of the Vietnam Airlines office in the Southern region on September 16.
Honeymoons are known as a time for romance and stunning beaches are often suggested as ideal places for this special voyage. Therefore, tours operators are always offering honeymoon tours together with attractive services which are luring more and more local and foreign tourists.
Victoria Chau Doc Hotel will present the fun-filled “Ox Race Day†during the region’s annual Khmer Dolta Festival from September 17-19.
With a series of tours for the autumn, Ben Thanh Tourist wants to promote destinations in the North for southern people who may not know about the beauty of the fall. The tour operator has recommended Hanoi and Sapa as suitable areas for visitors.
Three more five-star hotels have joined a week-old special program of discounting room rates by around 50% for Vietnamese guests to attract Vietnamese people to stay in high-end hotels, bringing the number of hotels in the program to nine.
From September 15 to December 15, passengers who buy the Hanoi-HCMC train tickets will enjoy fare reduction of up to 20% per a ticket. The price for return tickets will be slashed by 20% for both ways.
The direct flight route that links China’s Hainan Province and the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi will be launched on September 27, a local daily reported.