Two luxury cruise ships of Costa Crociere S.p.A cruise line brought 5,000 tourists and crew members to Vietnam for a week from Friday, October 29, 2010.
A delegation, including wives and husbands of high-ranking foreign delegates taking part in the 17th ASEAN Summit, paid a visit to Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi on October 29.
Vietnamese Culture Week in Cambodia ended with two arts performances on October 28-29 by Vietnamese and Cambodian artists at Chartomouk International Conference Palace in Phnom Penh.
Veterans and amateurs promise to enchant aficionados with their varied performance styles at the first Zither Festival which opened in HCMC on October 30.
A group exhibition by an artist club at HCMC University of Fine Arts on October 28, opened at the Applied Fine Arts Gallery, 5 Phan Dang Luu Street in HCMC’s Binh Thanh District.
Vietnam’s national tourism agency has started a program to improve the quality of tourism services in the central region in an effort to attract regional travelers, especially those from Thailand, an official said.
Vietnamese resorts that made the top 20 list for best resorts in Asia included, Life Heritage Resort-Hoi An, The Nam Hai, and Evason Ana Mandara & Six Senses Spa. The Sofitel Legend Metropole-Hanoi and the Park Hyatt-Saigon, each won top spots in the survey of the 100 top hotels in Asia.
Embroidery is not everyman’s favorite hobby, which makes the exhibition at The Bui Gallery even more interesting. Lionel Descostes has spent a decade to produce the 200 pieces of embroidery in his show “10 Years in Hanoiâ€.
Vietnam has potential to develop a very strong homestay tourism market, a Malaysian tourism official told the Malaysia Homestay Seminar and Travel Mart at the Duxton Hotel Saigon in HCMC.
The country’s leading hospitality company Saigontourist Holding Co. and MasterCard announced their cooperation program to give more benefits to MasterCard cardholders, especially foreign travelers to the country.
Vietnam Guiness Book of Records has recognized the Hoa Tai Ngoc Chau stone art museum in Bao Loc City in the central highland province of Lam Dong as the first in Vietnam.
A press conference to introduce the international tour program of conquering Fansipan Mountain and planting flag of "Thang Long - Hanoi 1000 years old" on Fansipan Peak 2010 had been held on the morning of October 22nd, 2010 at the head office of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in Ha Noi.