(HBO) – Ngoi Hoa Bay, where green stony islands float on the clear greenish blue water under the sunny sky, is a popular tourist destination in Ngoi Hoa commune, Tan Lac district, Hoa Binh.
The rich potential for marine tourism development in Con Co island district in the central coastal province of Quang Tri has been awaken through investment in infrastructure.
(HBO) - With an area of over 4000m2, Museum of Muong Ethnic Cultural Heritage (Address at No. 28, Group 6, Thai Binh Ward, Hoa Binh City) is displaying 3,000 artifacts including stones, bronzes, ceramics, and handicraft knitwear, spiritual cultural and traditional cultural products. The space and display products seem to create a picture of a small Muong ethnic village. But what impressed us the most to know is that it is a private museum.
HBO) – The charming Mai Chau valley is home to various traditional cultural traits of the Thai ethnic group. While exploring cultural traits of Thai people in Mai Chau, we were amazed to learn that besides wooden stilt house, xoe dance and brocade weaving, the Thais here have also kept their traditional cuisine almost unchanged, with fish regularly used in food offerings for ancestors and in daily meals.
A 2-km railway connecting Sa Pa Town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai and the cable car station to Mount Fansipan was put into service late last week, becoming the country’s longest mountain railway.
The tourism potential of China’s Taiwan was introduced at a tourism promotion programme in Hanoi on April 2.
Ticket prices for the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival 2018 will range from VND300,000 (US$13.3) to VND2 million (US$88.5) for each night’s performance on Han River banks between April 30 and June 30.
(HBO) – The Provincial Tourism Association has held a conference to review the tasks in 2017 and deploy the duties in 2018.
(HBO) – The Mong ethnic people in Hang Kia commune, Mai Chau district were long used to farming and hunting. Till one day, several households in Hang Kia village thought of opening lodging facilities to attract tourists, since then a number of standard home-stay services have sprung up.
The 2018 Hung Kings Temple Festival is set to unfold at the Hung Temple Complex in Viet Tri city and neighbouring communes, in Phu Tho province from April 21 - 25 (from sixth to tenth day of the third lunar month), with the participation of Thai Nguyen, Quang Nam, Binh Duong and Kien Giang provinces.
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines said on March 27 that it has launched a new air route connecting Nha Trang city in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa with Seoul capital city of the Republic of Korea (RoK).
An arts programme entitled ‘Bauhinia Flowers- A Love Song of Dien Bien’ was held in Dien Bien Phu City on March 17, as the opening event of the 2018 Ban (Bauhinia) Festival.
Vietnam’s Dat Tham beach in Con Dao has been listed among the top ten eco-friendly beaches in South-east Asia by the UK’s Independent Newspaper.
The Consulate General of India in Ho Chi Minh City hosted a tourism promotion programme, inviting local people to experience the different flavours of Indian culture, cuisine, and nature.
The Con Son-Kiep Bac 2018 Spring Festival opened at Con Son Pagoda in the northern province of Hai Duong on March 3 attracting hundreds of people.
A series of activities, on the theme ‘The love of youth and ethnic people for Vietnam’s sea and islands” are taking place at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism, in the Dong Mo tourism area of Son Tay town in Hanoi, from March 1 to 31.
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on March 5 announced that it will increase flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Singapore and Taipei (Taiwan) to meet the rising demand of passengers to these attractive destinations.
Tourist arrivals in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue in the first two months of 2018 rose sharply by 46.6 percent from a year earlier to over 715,960, partly thanks to various activities held during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Various annual spring festivals have opened in the northern province of Quang Ninh in response to the National Tourism Year 2018 - Halong - Quang Ninh.
More than 2.86 million foreigners was estimated to visit Vietnam in January and February, up 29.7 percent from the same period in 2017.
The Ba Den (Black Lady) Mountain national tourism site in the southern province of Tay Ninh has received one million visitors during just 12 days from the first to the 12th day of the Year of the Dog (February 16-27).
The low-cost airlines VietJet Air will shift all of its international flight operations from Terminal 3 to Terminal 4 (T4) of Singapore’s Changi International Airport from March 6.
The Yen Tu Spring Festival officially opened on February 25, the 10th day of the first lunar month, at the Yen Tu historical site in Uong Bi city, in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
The Hung Kings Temple historical site in the ancestral province of Phu Tho welcomed nearly 1 million worshippers during the six-day festival of the lunar New Year (Tet) in order to pay tribute to the nation’s founders.
Tourism in central and southern regions have reaped the benefits of the week-long Lunar New Year holiday (February 14-20), reporting an impressive surge in the number of visitors.
