Over 600,000 mobile text messages have been sent to vote for Halong Bay as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, after ten days of launching the SMS voting campaign. Nguyen Manh Cuong, deputy head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) announced the result at a press briefing in Hanoi on [...]
Halong Bay has received a certificate to participate in the final round of voting for the honour of being named as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. Bernard Weber, chairman of the New Open World organisation, which is hosting the vote, handed over the certificate to Quang Ninh province on September 27. [...]
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism is printing 2 million voting guides in multiple languages among other activities in an effort to keep Halong Bay on New Open World’s 7 Natural Wonders list this year. Hoang Thi Diep, deputy director of the tourism administration, told a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on April 9 [...]
The five-star cruise liner SuperStar Aquarius with 2,200 foreign tourists and crew aboard docked at the world’s natural heritage, Halong Bay, in the northern province of Quang Ninh on April 3. The visitors, mostly from China, were scheduled to tour around the bay, drop by the Vung Vieng fishing village to get insight into the [...]
The campaign to collect votes for Halong Bay to be recognised as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World in November this year is entering the final stages, said an official from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. At a meeting to discuss the country’s efforts to reach this goal held on [...]
Ha Long Bay, the most natural attraction in Vietnam, has recently been selected among top ten most famous boat-touring sites in the world by “The Lonely Planetâ€, the leading British tourism magazine. The Vietnam Tourism General Department confirmed the information and unveiled the other nine places that are ideal for boat-tours, including the Amazon River; [...]
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