According to the general planning to develop the southeast region's economy until 2020, the region will welcome about 15 and 18 million visitors, including four and five million international visitors by 2015 and 2020 with tourism revenues of US$3 billion and US$5 billion respectively.
A photo exhibition themed "40th anniversary of the Hanoi - Dien Bien Phu Victory in the Air" opened yesterday at 45 Trang Tien street in Hanoi by the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Luxury Travel Ltd (www.luxurytravelvietnam.com) is recruiting a California-based team to sell its Vietnam and Indochina tours and holidays to other tour operators on the West Coast of America.
The northern border province of Quang Ninh has so far this year welcomed 6.4 million holidaymakers, including 2.2 foreigners, up 9 percent and 6 percent respectively.
Considering waterway tours as strategic tourism products in the 2011-2015 period, Ho Chi Minh City's tourism sector is concentrating on constructing a development plan aimed at gradually tapping this type of tourism so that it can contribute to the city's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), helping in tourism becoming a key economic sector.
(TITC) - The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and the Vietnam Tourism Association jointly held a ceremony in the Hanoi Opera House on December 8, to present the Vietnam Tourism Awards 2011 to 52 leading tourism businesses.
The President Ho Chi Minh Memorial in the Kim Lien historic site in Nam Dan district, the central province of Nghe An, was formally certified as a special national historic site at a ceremony in the province on December 7.
Hanoi plans to develop six traditional craft villages into tourist destinations to attract domestic and international tourists from now until 2015.
Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta Investment-Trade-Tourism Promotion Conference took place in My Tho City, Tien Giang Province on December 6th.
An exhibition of Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian heritages opened on December 7 at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi.
Construction on a four-star resort at Ban Gioc waterfalls in Trung Khanh district, the mountainous northern province of Cao Bang, began on December 8.
(TITC) _On December 8, Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) organized ceremony to present certificates of the sustainable tourism Green Lotus Label 2012 to 21 accommodations in Viet Nam.