An exhibition showcasing 550 souvenirs in the wartime opened at the Hanoi-based Museum of Vietnam Military History on February 2 as witnessed by State President Nguyen Minh Triet.
Two decades after she first visited the country, Isabelle Aragon has not had her fill of Vietnam. She has traveled the length and breadth of the country since her maiden visit in 1989, and closing the way, recorded striking images of its landscape and its people.
A record number of 1,000 chung (square glutinous rice) cakes will be wrapped and boiled in one big pot this week and delivered directly to underprivileged children on the occasion of the Lunar New Year Festival.
The third round of the Kiteboard Tour Asia (KTA) wrapped up at Mui Ne Beach in the southern province of Binh Thuan on January 31.
The Vietnamese community in Belgium held a spring festival to welcome the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival from January 30-31.
Vietnam’s largest-ever tourism promotion program Impressive Vietnam has turned out a success by propelling the tourism industry’s revenue up 9% year-on-year to some VND70 trillion, but its bright side is limited to domestic travel only, officials said.
A seminar to collect ideas on effective measures to boost Vietnamese tourism was held in Hanoi on January 29. Speaking at the seminar, Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Nguyen Van Tuan said that promotion campaigns have made important contributions to the tourism sector’s current achievements.
The Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) plans to hold its competition in the southern province of Binh Thuan next year, said PWA President Jimmy Diaz.
Visitors and local Hanoians will have somewhere new to enjoy Vietnamese art forms and Vietnamese cuisine, as a new cultural complex has recently opened in the capital city.
Hanoi’s preparations for the forthcoming 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi have been covered on Germany’s website Mirror.
The recovery in HCMC’s hospitality industry has been heralded in the first month of the year as the city earns an estimated VND3.1 trillion in tourism revenue, a sharp increase of 15% year-on-year, the tourism department says in a just-released report.
Saigon Tourist Travel Services, the leading tour operator in Vietnam, welcomed 2,000 crew and tourists from Costa Classica ship, for the second time this year.