The Republic of Korea (RoK) held a seminar on MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition) tourism at the Lotte Hotel in Ha Noi on September 30 with the participation of around 180 Vietnamese and Korean delegates.
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.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Norway recently organised a workshop to promote the country as a tourism destination on the northern European market.
Musicians, researchers, managers and performers of Bai Choi – a folk singing popular in Central Viet Nam, have worked together on means and ways to preserve and enrich the values of the genre.
Fodor’s, the world’s largest publisher of travel guides, hailed the overall package provided by the Sofitel ‘Legend Metropole’ in Ha Noi, placing it in the top 100 of the World’s best hotels.
An array of popular tour operators and hospitality providers have won the 2013 Viet Nam tourism awards, mostly from Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Ha Long Bay of Viet Nam has been selected as one of the 12 greatest coastlines in the world by US travel website WhenOnEarth.
Viet Nam has welcomed more than 6 million foreign arrivals over the past nine months, a year-on-year increase of 10%, according to the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
Nine national relic sites in Ha Noi are being featured in a photograph exhibition that opened at the Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature) on September 24.
(TITC) – On September 22, 2014, in Ho Chi Minh City, UNWTO in collaboration with Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) organized the Conference on ASEAN’s river tourism development.
This information was released at the press conference on Wednesday to announce the ceremony marking 20 years of Ha Long’s UNESCO recognition.
Ha Noi’s tourism sector is taking a wide range of measures, including increasing the number of services on offer, improving the quality of services, and boosting links with other localities in an effort to lure more holiday-makers to the capital.