Vietnam had by the end of October welcomed 4.142 million foreign arrivals thanks to promotion strategies launched in Hanoi , Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang city. The country had a target of 4.2 million foreign tourists for the whole year. Deputy Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Nguyen Manh Cuong [...]
Vietnam has emerged as one of the top destinations for travellers from Thailand, Australia , Japan , and Singapore, a recent survey compiled by Visa and the Pacific Asia Travel Association found. The survey polled 6,714 respondents in 13 countries and territories and found that among travellers most likely to visit Vietnam in the next [...]
The Vietnam-China Friendship Festival was held in Lao Cai Province on November 24 as part of activities in response to the Vietnam-China Friendship Year. Attending the festival was delegates from the Vietnamese Government and the UNDP, representatives from ministries, sectors, cities and provinces along with other delegates from China’s Yunnan Province.
The 2010 Ship for Southeast Asian Youth will dock at Saigon port in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5, bringing ashore more than 300 young delegates from ten Southeast Asian countries and Japan. This is the 11th ship of this kind, which left the Japanese port of Yokohama on October 4 for Malaysia, Thailand, [...]
Representatives from six northern mountainous provinces gathered in Tuyen Quang Province on November 21 to discuss how to tap their potential in tourism. The provinces, which in the past formed the famous revolutionary base of Viet Bac, boast many beautiful sceneries, diverse ecological systems and culture as well as rich historical relics, Nguyen Van Tuan, [...]
French photo-journalist Nicolas Cornet is holding a retrospective exhibition of photographs at L’Espace – French Cultural Center in Hanoi from November 23 until December 10. The exhibition, held during French Week, features 30 photos from Cornet’s latest book titled “Hanoi”. The book covers 23 years of photojournalist’s work in the capital. Cornet’s photos of landscapes [...]
The sixth European Music Festival will be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from November 26 to December 4. At a press conference in Hanoi on Nov. 17, Sean Doyle, Ambassador – Head of the European Union delegation in Vietnam, said the festival was part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of [...]
More than 160 antiques dated from the Nguyen Dynasty in the 19th century are on display at the National Palace Museum of the Republic of Korea as from November 8. The event is a joint effort between the RoK’s National Palace Museum, and Vietnam’s Hue Royal Antiquities Museum, Hue Monuments Conservation Centre and the Vietnamese [...]
A special music night was held in Paris on November 8 with the participation of overseas Vietnamese and Vietnamese students living and studying in France as well as international friends. The two-day event is part of activities to celebrate the 2010-2011 French Army Museum music festival and the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi. The event [...]
Passengers will not be required to fill in the customs declaration form at 12 border gates across the country by November 15. The Prime Minister asked the Vietnam Immigration Department under the Ministry of Public Security to remove this procedure for international border gates equipped with electronic passport readers connected to internet. Prior to this, [...]
