As many as 40 million people, including 7 million foreigners, paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi over the past 35 years.
HCMC as the country’s biggest tourism center will focus on developing four main segments of shopping, MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions, exhibition), ecological and cultural tourism in the years to come, said a city leader.
The image of Vietnam’s tourism will reappear on CNN channel this year as part of a national tourism promotion program just approved by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The Mekong River Delta welcomed nearly 10 million tourists including 730,000 foreigners in the first half of the year, 19 percent more than in the same period last year, said the Mekong Delta Tourism Association.
The Hung Duy Trading Import Export Transportation Company will invest VND130 billion in building an eco-tourism area in Hoa Thanh district, Tay Ninh province.
More than 600 ancient artefacts from Viet Nam and some other Asian countries are on display at an exhibition at the Can Tho Museum.
The HCMC-based Lac Hong Voyages Co Ltd. will organize two familiarization trips for 32 travel agents and tour operators from the Philippines to the city to promote the city’s tourism image and some attractions in the Mekong Delta, the company’s leader said.
The tourism industry of HCMC is expected to gain VND40 trillion in revenues and attract three million foreign guests this year, said La Quoc Khanh, deputy director of the HCMC Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The Outrigger Vinh Hoi Bay Resort and Spa, a 5-star resort accommodation, will be co-designed and managed by Hawaii-based Outrigger Enterprises Group, according to the family-owned company’s recent news release.
Poland is to share the 37,000 USD cost of preserving a stele engraved with King Tu Duc’s teachings that sits in front of the old national university in Hue City with a donation of 18,700 USD.
Local traveling remains the key pillar for the country’s tourism industry, with up to 17 million Vietnamese people going places in the first half of this year, equal to over two-thirds of the figure for the whole 2009, the national tourism body said.
Occupancy rates of 3-5 star hotels in Hanoi rose to 54.52 percent in the second quarter of the year, a year-on-year increase of 10.26 percent.