The national-flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines, will increase weekly flights between Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to Japan’s Tokyo to 14 from the current seven, meeting rising demand of Japanese tourists during summer.
The European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) has insisted Vietnam grant visa exemption to more markets as a measure to attract more international visitors in 2010 to take full advantage of global travel recovery.
Potter Le Minh Ngoc of the Bat Trang pottery village, Hanoi, who made a national record with a pair of flower-vases of 3m height, has produced a flower-vase of 3.4m height, breaking his own record.
The Athena cruise ship of Portugal’s Classic International Cruises will visit Vietnam next month for its only visit of the year in preparation for a plan to visit the country every two weeks in 2011.
The Vietnam Buddhist Shangha and Hanoi municipal authorities have started the casting of a statue of Saint Giong, a legendary national hero, in Phu Linh Commune, Soc Son District.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has issued a draft programme on tourism promotion in 2010, emphasising discounts for tourists in the low season.
An exhibition of 99 ancient swords recently opened in Hanoi, offering visitors a chance to learn more about history's most popular weapon.
Posha Inu Towers, seven kilometers northeast of Phan Thiet City and located on Ong Hoang Hill, attracted over 2,500 international tourists to visit and enjoy Cham ethnic artistic performances during the Tet holiday.
Airfares for domestic air routes will increase by VND100,000-180,000 starting March 1, 2010 according to a recent decision of the Ministry of Finance.
The Lim Festival in the northern province of Bac Ninh, dedicated to traditional love duet singing, lured up to 10,000 visitors on the 13th day of the first lunar month or February 26.
A pictorial book on Vietnam’s natural landscape and people has been published by Russia’s Vokruk Sveta Publishing House.
A painting of Bodhisattva has just been returned to the Tam Thai Pagoda in the central city of Da Nang after being held in a Japanese temple for four centuries.