LookAtVietnam – About 1,500 Vietnamese, including overseas Vietnamese, have booked Lunar New Year or Tet tours with Saigontourist Travel Service Co. to take a closer look at pre-Tet activities around the country. The tours, which take in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta and the central and northern regions, allow holiday makers to learn about Tet [...]
The Saigon River has a host of tributaries, of which many have remained heavily polluted but some have been cleaned up, allowing fish to return. If some might think of going to the bar, café, theater or tourist park for recreation, other Saigonese love fishing at night. Fishing is not new but doing it in [...]
To bring a jubilant New Year atmosphere to locals and tourists, authorities in Phan Thiet City will host a series of arts and cultural activities. On New Year’s Eve, there will be music and dance shows, and contests at Nguyen Tat Thanh Square. The Binh Thuan branch of Ho Chi Minh Museum will host an [...]
Travel agents offering outbound services will have to double their collateral deposit at banks to VND500 million (US$23,800) against the current rate, according to a draft decree on revising regulations of the Law on Tourism. Current regulations set a collateral deposit of VND250 million for both outbound and inbound tourism. The draft compiled by the [...]
The Tet flower road will return to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City this Friday, highlighted by a giant dragon blowing blooms, as the city starts celebrating the Year of Dragon. With the Lunar New Year starting Monday next week, work to transform Nguyen Hue Street into a street of flowers began on January 10. The 12 meter long, [...]
A price spike in almost all services from hotels to transport and restaurants and a higher exchange rate at hotels than the official level have sent the cost of inbound tourism surging. International visitors cycle around the ancient town of Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam. Bui Viet Thuy Tien, managing director [...]
This year the Vietnamese government had announced the Tet holiday schedule much earlier, prompting people to rush to book tours, with travel agencies having less time to prepare for a variety of interesting tours. More people want to take long distance tours, since this year the Tet holidays will be for 9 long days. [...]
The costs of domestic tourism rose dramatically last year, causing more Vietnamese to book tours in neighbouring countries and having an impact on inbound arrivals, according to the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The rising costs of fuel pushed up the costs of air fares and other tourism services in 2011, the [...]
LookAtVietnam – More and more Viet Kieu have invested in the projects in the homeland in recent years. Especially, they have been most interested in the tourism sector. Tieu Nhu Phuong, a Viet Kieu in Germany, who returned to Vietnam to attend the program “The spring in the homeland” held by the National Committee for [...]
LookAtVietnam – Over 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh will not have to be painted entirely in white, said the province’s Vice Chairwoman Vu Thi Thu Thuy. Thuy said that these boats only need to be painted with white patterns to make them outstanding in the sea. [...]
