Dental tourism has been identified as one of Ho Chi Minh City’s five main medical tourism products, according to its Department of Tourism.
The Organisation of Viet Nam Records (VietKings) has announced dried shrimp made in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau among 10 famous Vietnamese specialities in 2017.
Tourist arrivals to Ho Chi Minh City reached some 2.8 million in the first half of 2017, a 14.7% increase year-on-year.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced the list of seven additional national intangible cultural heritages.
The central province of Quang Nam’s Culture, Sports and Tourism department has introduced eight new tourist sites this year.
An arts programme, introducing the unique cultural identities of the Raglai ethnic minority people from Ninh Thuan province, will take place at the Viet Nam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Dong Mo, Son Tay district, Ha Noi, on June 24-25.
Google and Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek have forecast the Vietnamese online tourism services market to be worth 9 billion USD by 2020, and said local companies should work quickly or risk losing the market to international companies.
A pilot programme “Eco-friendly aquaculture on Ha Long Bay” launched in mid-2016 in the northern province of Quang Ninh, has been a success for local fishermen.
Ha Noi welcomed nearly 12 million tourists in the last two quarters, earning 35 trillion VND (about 1.54 billion USD), representing year-on-year increases of 8 percent and 13 percent, respectively.
Promoting artistic cultural exchange in the ASEAN community is one activity of the Central Highlands Kon Tum provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, under the planned implementation of goals of the ASEAN Socio-cultural Community until 2025.
Hue city in central Thua Thien-Hue province has issued strict regulations on what to wear when visiting its monuments in an attempt to ensure solemnity of the key buildings that once belonged to the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945).
A total of 36 precious artifacts, from the Nguyen dynasty period (1802-1945), are on display at an exhibition that opened recently at Lam Dong museum in Da Lat city.