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.
A watercolor and ink exhibition featuring 55 paintings by artist Tran Van Hai is now on at the City Exhibition House in HCMC’s District 1. The paintings in the artist’s first ever exhibition were inspired during trips to the coastal regions, the Highlands and the Mekong Delta from 2006 to 2010.
Painter Nguyen Thi Hien is in love with the written word. She explains that writing itself has been a work of art since humans began drawing images on stone to communicate and find others.
On October 24 the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association officially opened the Vietnam-Japan Culture Club in Hanoi and marked the first anniversary of the Vietnam-Japan Business Club.
A book about the 1,000-year history of Hanoi by US researcher James Goodman has been made available to the public by The Gioi (World) Publishing House.
A photo exhibition and a seminar on Hanoi ’s architecture and urban life were opened in the Vietnam Cultural Centre in Paris, France, on October 21.