Travel

Students provides free tour-guide for foreign visitors
09/04/2013 03:48
Thuong and Mr. Gilberto and his wife visit the One Pillar Pagoda.� Tong Ho Thuong, the last-year student of the Hanoi Foreign Trade University, came to Dao Duy Tu Street to see visitors – a young couple from London, Gilberto Ruiz and his wife Citlali Plasse. The couple were very...
Exhibition in Hoi An puts local heritage in spotlight
09/04/2013 02:56
The event will be the biggest heritage exhibition ever organised in the ancient town, according to Deputy Director of the Vietnam Culture and Arts Exhibition Centre Nguyen Thi Hoa.� The 16 provinces are all home to UNESCO-recognised world heritage sites as well as tangible and intangible...
Discovering the secrets of nature
07/04/2013 04:15
� Island getaway: A view of the Bai Tu Long eco-tourism complex, which recently opened to tourists.� � Topping the travel list will be the family's age-old favourite, Van Don island district, which will kick off their travels before continuing their journey southward. Van Don...
HCM City needs 27,000 more hotel rooms
07/04/2013 04:11
� The five-star Pullman hotel is under construction on Tran Hung Dao Street in HCMC’s District 1. The city needs 27,000 more rooms by 2020 to meet the demand. � Truong Vinh Tho, head of the Hotel Division under the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that the hotel room...
Lam Dong to hold ASEAN UNESCO heritage festival
06/04/2013 03:55
The choice was made by the festival’s steering committee at a meeting on April 5 between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representatives from cities and provinces home to the heritages, and relevant agencies in Hanoi. According to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Thanh Son,...
Vietnam’s most oldest village exploited all economic potentials
06/04/2013 03:37
The Management Unit is directly under The district People’s Committee. It works as a counsellor for The district People’s Committee about management of national heritages, and architectural relics in Phuoc Thinh ancient village. The Management Unit will preserve, restore,...
VNAT keeps optimistic, people keep pessimistic about Vietnam’s tourism
06/04/2013 03:04
The neighbors’ trump-cards Malaysia is still considered the “tourism champion” in ASEAN. The country’s territory area is equal to Vietnam’s 303,000 square meters; its population is just equal to 1/3 of Vietnam’s (27 million vs. 87 million). However, the...