The General Department of Viet Nam Customs has sent a document to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), General Department of Taxation and State Treasury to consider adding Phu Quoc International Airport in the list of international airports eligible to provide VAT (value added tax) refund.
The eighth Culture, Sports, and Tourism Festival of Khmer people in Kien Giang province opened in Go Quao town, Go Quao district on November 5.
An air route linking Viet Nam’s Phu Quoc island in the southern province of Kien Giang and Singapore was launched at Phu Quoc International Airport on November 2.
Vinpearl Phu Quoc Resort welcomed 4 charter flights from the Republic of Korea, China, and Russia on its inauguration on November 1 after ten months of construction.
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang’s People’s Committee on October 31 held a working session with officials and business people from several localities of Thailand and Cambodia to discuss measures to boost their tourism and trade links.
Phu Quoc Island, dubbed the Pearl Island, in the southern province of Kien Giang expects to see a new boost to its socio-economic development with the planned launch on November 1 of two international air routes connecting the island and Singapore and Cambodia’s Siem Reap.
The Ministry of Transport has just had a meeting with Kien Giang province’s leaders to discuss the plan building a large-scale seaport terminal in Phu Quoc Island, aiming to receive the world’s biggest cruise ships.
The pristine Bai Dai Beach on Phu Quoc Island is worth an idyllic place of interest for many people wanting to take retreat from the noisy urban life.
On September 29, Tuan Chau precinct People’s Committee in Ha Long city, was honoured to receive the certificate of provincial historical relics, for the Uncle Ho commemorative area in Tuan Chau island in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
Domestic and foreign carriers plan to increase the number of flights into and from Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang at the end of the year and the begining of 2015.
Hon village in Tam Duong district, which is home to Lu ethnic people, is a tourist attraction in the northern mountain province of Lai Chau for it has maintained indigenous culture for years.
To-be-opened air routes linking southern Phu Quoc Island with international destinations are hoped to smooth the way for tourists as well as investment to the place dubbed “Pearl Island”.