Hong Kong’s Royal Group will bring its five-star cruise ship, Jupiter Cruises, to Vietnam to explore the Phu Quoc – Shihanouk Ville tourist route. This service will be available before Christmas this year.
The ancient town of Hoi An will need an estimated VND 1.1 trillion to preserve and develop its cultural heritage value in the 2009-2020 period, according to a project submitted to central Quang Nam province.
A moving Hot Pot Line rocking special Japanese hot pot buffet with hundreds of dishes such as such as salmon, scallop, oyster, Kobe beef and mushroom and vegetables along with a free sauce pot comes to Hanoians for the first time at Asahi Hot Pot restaurant, 76 Trieu Viet Vuong Street.
The 4th Arômes festival 2008 with the theme ‘Culinary Journey over Four Continents’ will be held at Sofitel Metropole Hanoi from today and last until December 7, 2008.
A charity concert will be held on January 13, 2009 at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi, with the participation of Miss World 2007 and 2008 and other overseas Vietnamese singers.
Tourists planning a budget trip to Hoi An should consider home-stay accommodation. Inexpensive and cozy, a home-stay will show you how locals really live, and give you a chance to immerse yourself in the culture.
The last few months saw dramatic declines in foreign visitors, yet the overall figure for the first 11 months of the year is more than the figure for the same period last year by 1.1 per cent.
Vietnam’s central region is expected to receive about 100,000 visitors from Thailand and Laos this year.
Vietnam and Cambodia will step up high-ranking delegation exchanges and organize cultural days in both countries.
A performance by artists from the Vietnam Music, Dance and Song Theatre and the Vietnam Circus Federation on November 28, 2008 commenced a week-long festival on Vietnamese culture in Phnom Penh.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) launched a campaign to vote for Ha Long Bay and other Vietnamese sites in a bid to have them recognised as one of the new natural wonders of the world in central Da Nang city on Nov. 28, 2008.
A collection of four books on Vietnamese dishes entitled “Five Seasons†written by a group of authors headed famous by French Chef Didier Corlou was made debut in Hanoi on Nov. 28, 2008.