Air Mekong will allow customers to pay at more than 18,000 post offices of Vietnam Post Corp. (VNPost) around the country for air-tickets booked at www.airmekong.vn or the private carrier’s call centers in HCMC and Hanoi.
Turkish Airlines has increased the number of its services to HCMC to seven a week just a half year after the launch of its flights from the Thai capital of Bangkok to the southern economic hub of Vietnam.
A low-cost flight route between Hanoi and Singapore will blaunched by discount airline Jetstar from December 15, 2011 with four flights a week.
The Grand Hotel Saigon and Continental Hotel Saigon, under management of Saigontourist, are offering special promotions to groups coming to party at their hotels. Also Binh Quoi 1 Tourist Area also offers a special buffet deal.
Vietnam Airlines plans to operate more than 1,350 additional flights on a dozen of domestic routes with high demand for air travel, particularly tourist-frequent destinations, between now and August 15 this year.
Summer is the holiday season as well as the season to worship and pray to Buddha. Going to the pagoda to ask for peace and happiness is not only a religious ritual but is a Vietnamese custom, especially at this time of the year.
Royal Resort has teamed up with Air Mekong to attract summer tourists to Quy Nhon by offering discount packages for passengers, particularly families and groups, on the daily service of the private carrier to the central coastal city in Binh Dinh Province.
A jubilant ceremony was held on June 19 to inaugurate a Rong house in Kon Klor Village in Kon Tum City, one of the biggest traditional communal houses of ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands.
Vietnam Airlines on June 20 announced that it would officially open a direct flight route from Vietnam to the United Kingdom (UK) on December 8.
Vinpearl Land Nha Trang will launch a dolphin show at its amusement park in December. The dolphins will be set up near the sea, next to the Vinpearl Underwater World. Sea lions and seals will also join the show.
The Treasure House, or Phu Noi Vu, one of the royal monuments inside Hue's Forbidden City, will be opened to tourists after conservation and renovation work, said the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre.