The tourism industry in the central coastal province Quang Nam will pay more attention to attracting domestic visitors in the time ahead in order to regain growth pace, according to the Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Dinh Hai.
For the fourth consecutive year in a row, Vietravel has been honourably awarded the title “Best Viet Nam Travel Agency”, by leading Asia Pacific TTG Asia Magazine.
Taiwan’s Happiness Cement Group has unveiled a plan to invest 1 billion USD in the construction of an eco-tourism and urban area complex in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
More than 100 works by artists from Viet Nam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) are on display at an exhibition that opened on October 1 in Ha Noi to mark 60th anniversary of Ha Noi’s Liberation (1954 -2014).
The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa’s Department of Tourism has developed a number of new tourism services in the run-up to the 6th Asian Beach Games in 2016 in order to attract more holidaymakers to its Nha Trang city.
In spite of economic difficulties, foreign tourist arrivals to Viet Nam still reached more than 6 million in the first nine months of 2014, a year-on-year rise of 10.4%, according to the General Statistics Office.
The Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology (VME) has been ranked 4th among the 25 best museums in Asia by travel website TripAdvisor.
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.