With Independence Day falling on a Friday and offering the last chance for a vacation for students before the new school year begins, Ho Chi Minh City travel agencies have been selling lots of tour packages. The holiday falls on September 2 while schools reopen Monday. Vietravel said it had achieved 85 percent of its [...]
A comprehensive inspection of State management and the implementation of tourism and resort projects began on Wednesday in Khanh Hoa Province, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI). The eight members of an MPI work team are scheduled to work in the province for 45 days. The MPI inspectors will work with the [...]
Central Thua Thien Hue Province’s People’s Committee plans to invest over VND23 billion (US$1.1 million) to host National Tourism Year 2012. National tourism year 2012, themed “Heritage Tourism”, was a major tourism event that was expected to be held all year round, said Pham Dang Khanh, a representative from the province’s Culture, Sports and Tourism [...]
Major travel agencies serving the Japanese market want the Vietnamese government to extend the visa exemption period for Japanese nationals from 15 to 30 or even 60 days. After the hardships in the aftermath of the tsunami and earthquake last March, Japanese tourists now yearn for long holidays, a survey done by the Vietnam National [...]
Vietnam will need to invest $42.5 billion in the next 10 years to develop its tourism infrastructure and services, said the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). According to VNAT’s tourism development plan for 2011-2020, with such an investment, Vietnam will be able to increase the number of local tourists from 28 million people in [...]
With domestic tours costing more than foreign trips and their country’s attractions not appealing enough to Vietnamese, many people opt for destinations like Thailand and Singapore. Figures from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism show that the number of people travelling abroad via Tan Son Nhat International Airport in the [...]
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