• BMI: Vietnam best performing regional market

    13/04/2011 05:00

    Vietnam had performed as the best tourism market in the region in 2010 with the number of foreign arrivals recording a year-on-year increase of 40 percent, according to Business Monitor International (BMI). The performance is particularly impressive given that it...

  • Most expensive hotel suites in Vietnam

    11/04/2011 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – Priced from VND15-90 million dong ($700-$4,500) per night, presidential suites at international hotels in Vietnam are always fully booked. Presidential suites are not only the choices of chiefs of state in their visits to Vietnam, they are also the...

  • Trade cards for tour guides remain deadlocked in city

    11/04/2011 05:00

    Up to one quarter of around 1,660 tour guides in HCMC have not been issued practicing cards, which means they cannot legally exercise their profession at a time when the city is facing a critical manpower shortage for the hospitality industry. Nguyen Duc Chi, deputy...

  • ASEAN countries plan to develop regional tourism

    11/04/2011 05:00

    ASEAN countries will join forces to build a common marketing strategy for the whole region in the 2011-2015 period, with an aim to attract more intra-bloc tourists as well as visitors from China, South Korea, Japan, India, Russia and Australia. Tourism officials of...

  • Legendary peaks lend succor 

    10/04/2011 05:00

    In the middle of a small valley in the northern province of Ha Giang, the Fairy Mountain in Quan Ba District rises gracefully from terraced rice fiel. The perfectly shaped twin peaks...

  • Seeing the forest and the trees 

    08/04/2011 05:00

    The lộc vừng trees in Phu Tho Village in Quang Binh Province’s Le Thuy District One lộc vừng (Indian Oak or Barringtonia acutangula) tree is an arresting sight, whether it is in bloom with its scarlet, powder-puff flowers, laden...

  • Number of foreign visitors rises in first quarter

    07/04/2011 05:00

    Nearly 1.5 million foreigners visited Viet Nam in the first quarter of this year, a year-on-year increase of nearly 12 percent, the General Statistics Office said. Of the figure, 271,500 people came to visit relatives and friends, an increase of 59.7 per cent over...

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