The Bermuda-flagged cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, dropped anchor at the PTSC Phu My Port on March 11, bringing 2,600 foreign tourists and a 1,100-strong crew from Thailand to southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.
Vietnam’s localities and Yunnan Province discussed ways to boost tourism in talks held in Vietnam’s northern Lao Cai Province on March 10.
The mountainous province of Lai Chau has completed preparations for the 11th cultural, sport and tourism festival for ethnic groups in the northwestern region from March 28-31, 2009.
Park Hyatt Saigon has been voted “World’s Best Hotel in Asia†in the 13th Annual World’s Best Awards Readers’ Survey conducted by Travel + Leisure, the US’s leading luxury travel and lifestyle magazine.
Vietnam and Laos signed a cooperative agreement on culture and art in the 2009-2012 period in Hanoi on March 5.
A sapphire statue of Buddha, which is nearly 3.5m in height, 4,650kg in weight, will be introduced at the Goddess of Mercy Festival 2009 in the central city of Danang from March 13-15.
Nearly 200 guests attended the launch of a Vietnamese foods month at Westin Hotel in the Chinese capital of Beijing on March 2.
A seminar on Vietnam-Japan tourism cooperation was held in Nha Trang City of southern Khanh Hoa Province on February 27
The Hanoi City People’s Committee and the Vietnam Television (VTV) have signed an agreement on joint activities to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
The Vietnamese embassy in Japan hosted a gastronomic event to introduce Vietnamese cuisine to its friends from Japan and the rest of the world on February 25.
A Buddhist cultural centre, built at a cost of VND5 billion, was inaugurated in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on February 26.
The Cham Sculpture Museum in central Danang City will on February 27 will open two modern exhibition rooms which were funded by the Guimet Museum of Asian Art and France’s Nord-Pas-de-Calais.