Hai Au Hotel, a four-star hotel in the central province of Binh Dinh, has won the “International Quality Crown – London 2008†award for its service quality.
Ba Ria-Vung Tau (VNA) - A cultural tourism festival welcoming the Lunar New Year will be organised in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau between January 22 and February 2, 2009.
On January 5th, in Hanoi, the Hanoi City People’s Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed an agreement to cooperate on activities in the 2009-2010 period to mark 1000 years of Thang Long – Hanoi.
A nationwide promotion is one of the urgent measures being taken by the tourism sector to stimulate tourism in order to achieve the sector’s target of welcoming 4.5 million foreign tourists in 2009.
A lantern festival will take place at the Bao Son Paradise Park in Ha Noi from January 1 to February 17, 2009 to celebrate the lunar New Year Festival of Tet, which will fall on January 25.
A special live TV broadcast for overseas Vietnamese will be made at the Temple of Literature in downtown Hanoi on January 19, 2009 to welcome the Lunar New Year festival.
The Costa Allegra cruise ship anchored Tien Sa port in central Da Nang City on January 1, 2009 bringing the first 800 foreign tourists to the country.
386 tourist ships carrying 4,900 passengers, including 3,700 foreigners, left Bai Chay tourist wharf in the northern province of Quang Ninh to Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO-recognised World Natural Heritage site, on the first day of 2009.
Ben Thanh Tourist will start selling tours online from after the first quarter of 2009, which will be made possible owing to a recent cooperation agreement the travel firm signed with Vietcombank and an IT solution provider.
Nearly 60 per cent of handicraft villages around the country have been forced to cut back on their production because of the global financial crisis, according to a ministry official.
A photo exhibition entitled “Vietnam and ASEAN tourism forum (ATF)†opened in Hanoi on December 29, 2008.
Nearly half of international travelers to Vietnam have not learned of a tourism route named the East-West Economic Corridor which stretches 1,450 kilometers from Vietnam's central city of Danang to Laos and Thailand, shows a survey.