Ho Chi Minh city received 1.16 million foreign tourist arrivals in the first quarter this year, a year-on-year rise of 10 percent, and 26 percent of the year’s plan, according to the city People’s Committee.
Danang city has recorded a sharp increase in the number of international arrivals in the first quarter of 2014, up as much as 10-20%, according to travel agents Vitours, Vietravel and Saigontourist.
The number of foreign tourists to the northern province of Quang Ninh increased sharply in the first three months this year, reaching an estimated 1 million arrivals, a year-on-year rise of 19 percent, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
(TITC) - According to Thua Thien Hue’s Deparment of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in the first quarter of 2014, the province attracted 650,662 tourist arrivals, increasing by 2.3% over the same period last year.
The Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has planned a series of activities at home and abroad to promote Vietnamese tourism in 2014.
The New Zealand Embassy in Viet Nam and the Vnexpress e-newspaper on March 26 launched the “New Zealand - New Horizon” contest, aiming to promote the country’s tourism in Viet Nam.
(TITC) - Phu Quoc Island, Mui Ne sand dunes, Mekong Delta, Sa Pa and Cu Chi tunnels of Viet Nam have been listed in top 19 Southeast Asia’s destinations that “will actually change your life” by the Huffington Post – an American news website.
The number of foreign tourist arrivals to Viet Nam in the first quarter of 2014 reached an estimated 2.32 million, a 29.3 percent rise over a year previous, according to the General Department of Statistics.
A variety of promotions have been launched for the first period of Golden Tourism Week in the imperial city of Hue, which runs from March 26 to April 1.
Eleven Russian artists are joining hands with three Khanh Hoa Province-based artists to display their artworks at a group exhibition in HCMC.
Japan is promoting tourism in Viet Nam, particularly in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi, in a bid to attract more tourists to the ancient Japanese capital of Nara.
A festival commemorating the 245th death anniversary of peasant hero Hoang Cong Chat kicked off in Dien Bien district, the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on March 24.