Travel

Rice farm tour patrons get down and dirty
15/06/2013 04:13
Swinging time: Tourists water rice paddy with bamboo buckets. — Photos courtesy Hoi An Eco Tour Tran Van Khoa set up the 720sq.m rice farm in Cam Thanh Village, located in the suburbs of Hoi An, for tourists to experience a day in the life of a farmer. Visitors don the traditional...
'Dragon's Jaws' to be tourist drawcard
10/06/2013 09:47
Ham Rong Bridge This follows recent plans by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to preserve, restore and promote the values of the site. The Ham Rong area will be built into a centre of ecological and cultural tourism. It will include a camping site and an entertainment and sports centre...
Deputy PM agrees with the establishment of tourist police
10/06/2013 09:42
At the conference on improving tourism environment held last week, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism made 10 urgent measures to improve Vietnam's tourism image. They include: providing information on health, security via the Internet and travel publications; making public the...
Tourism promotion: no money, no proper solution
10/06/2013 09:38
Lacking money A report of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism VNAT showed that in 2000-2012, the state’s budget spent VND410 billion in total on the tourism promotion activities. This did not include the money spent on the ad campaigns on big TV channels, the domestic...
The story about deficiency and redundancy of tourism workers
08/06/2013 10:10
A report says Vietnam now has 284 schools that train workers for the tourism sector. These include 62 universities (4-year training), 80 junior colleges (3-year training) and 117 vocational schools. According to the Vietnam Research Institute for Tourism Development, the tourism sector...
HCM City proposes visa-free region to lure tourists
07/06/2013 08:07
Representatives of Thai tourism authorities as seen in this file photo promote their travel services at an event in HCM City. The city has asked the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism to submit a proposal to this effect to the Government. Tourism authorities of Vietnam, Laos,...
Discovering antique in sunk old ship in Quang Ngai
05/06/2013 02:07
After an hour of excavating, hundreds of antiques were found such as plates, bowls, incense-burners, etc. Most of them were broken and damaged. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Chieu, deputy director of Vietnam History Museum, said the majority of antiques had the date of the 14 th century. Some of them...