The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) this weekend will come to Vietnam with products and supporting policies to help local travel firms attract outbound tour buyers to Hong Kong. As the arranger of Hong Kong’s tourism promotion programs, Lac Hong Voyage’s director Tran Vinh Loc informed that HKTB and Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports [...]

On Dec 2th 2011, a review conference on scientific research activities from 2008-2011 was held by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) in Ha Noi. The conference attracted the attendance of chairman of Viet Nam Culture and Heritage Association and former Deputy Minister of the MoCST, Prof. Luu Tran Tieu; the former Deputy Minister of the [...]

Vietnam’s national air carrier Vietnam Airlines has just announced to raise airfare of domestic air routes as of December 15. The fare will rise for five distances, with the highest increase by 20 percent for economy tickets and up to 5 percent for business tickets. Specifically, the fare for the air routes between HCM City, [...]

Nearly 6,000 plants and products will be on display at the flower festivals at Quoc te Square in District 3 and Tao Dan Park in District 1 during the Tet holidays from January 18-28, reports Sai Gon Giai Phong. The festival also hosts art activities such as don ca tai tu (Southern opera), human chess, [...]

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the T2 terminal project at Hanoi’s Noi Bai international airport on December 4. Once completed, terminal T2 will help ease the overload at terminal T1 and give the airport an overall facelift. The four-floor, 139,000m2 terminal is invested at nearly US$900 million. It is [...]

More than 50 delegates from domestic and foreign travel agents and European tourism magazines gathered at a seminar in Khanh Hoa on December 2 to discuss promoting Vietnam sea tourism in Europe. The conference focused on the great potential of sea tourism in Vietnam and ways to promote it in Europe, as well as measures [...]

HCM City has great potentials to develop tourism, but it still cannot attract as many tourists as expected due to the monotonous tourism products. HCM City keeps leading the country in the number of tourists it attracts with 3 million domestic and foreign tourists coming to the city in the first 11 months of the [...]

On 2 Dec 2011 in Grand Plaza Hotel, Ha Noi, for the first time, Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in coordination with Vietnam Airlines (VNA) organized “Thank you Ceremony” in appreciation of international travel agencies for sending tourists to Viet Nam. In holding this international ceremony, VNAT desires to express its high appreciation [...]

Since the HCMC-Nanning-Chengdu service was launched a half year ago, China’s Sichuan Airlines is considering daily flights to HCMC instead of two weekly flights as now. Also, the carrier plans to launch direct flights to Chengdu without transiting in Nanning, said Hu Pingshu, vice director-general for commercial of Sichuan Airlines Co. Ltd. He described the [...]

Viet Nam and Spain on November 29 inked an ODA project supporting the implementation of Vietnam tourism development strategy period 2011 – 2020, vision to 2030. The signing ceremony was held at the head office of the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST) with the attendance of leaders of MoCST, VNAT and Spanish [...]