December 31, 2011
(R) Nguyen Van Trung, 32, and his girlfriend, 28-year-old Le Thi Hong Linh receive jail terms at a trial in Ho Chi Minh City for robbing a Japanese tourist. A couple was sentenced to a total of four years in jail on Wednesday for robbing a Japanese tourist in Ho Chi Minh City, as travel [...]
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January 22, 2011
Tourists check a map at a street in Hanoi. Vietnam tourism officials may be patting themselves on the back a bit too soon. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) recently announced that Vietnam welcomed five million international arrivals. The figure has somehow gone on to be reported as the number of international tourists who [...]
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January 1, 2011
Tourists welcomed by local officials in Hanoi on Friday Vietnam has received a record five million foreign arrivals this year, an increase of 34.8 percent from 2009. The country’s tourism industry has enjoyed great success in 2010 with total revenues of VND96 trillion, according to a report on the government website Saturday. As the economy [...]
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December 6, 2010
Vietnam received 4.6 million foreign tourists in the first 11 months of this year Vietnam received 4.6 million foreign tourists in the first 11 months of this year, a 36.5 percent increase over the same period last year, the government said. In November alone, foreign arrivals reached 428,300, up 2.6 percent from October, the government said in [...]
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December 20, 2009
HCM Chi Minh City, the nation’s commercial and tourism hub, hopes to welcome 2.8 million foreign visitors in 2010 after posting the first decline in arrivals since 2003 this year. LookAtVietnam – Ho Chi Minh City, the nation’s commercial and tourism hub, hopes to welcome 2.8 million foreign visitors in 2010 after posting the first [...]
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December 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Many representative offices of foreign tourism companies in Ho Chi Minh City have downed shutters over the past year because of declining arrivals. LookAtVietnam – Many representative offices of foreign tourism companies in Ho Chi Minh City have downed shutters over the past year because of declining arrivals. As of September last year, [...]
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December 13, 2009
A foreign tourist checks information at a travel agent in HCMC downtown. Many representative offices of foreign tourism companies in Ho Chi Minh City have downed shutters over the past year because of declining arrivals. As of September last year, there were 24 tourism representative offices in operation, according to the HCMC Department of Culture, [...]
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December 12, 2009
LookAtVietnam – More foreign tourists are seen on Vietnam’s streets now. However, total arrivals are still far below 2008. European tourists in HCM City“We’re down 35 percent in comparison with November 2008, says Bui Viet Thuy Tien, Managing Director of Asian Trails Co Ltd., and down 11 percent year over year. Ben Thanh Tourist, APEX Vietnam [...]
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November 3, 2009
Foreign arrivals to Vietnam dropped 16.3 percent to around 3 million in the first ten months this year as tourism authorities continued to blame the global recession. Arrivals in October alone reached only 228,000, down 25.1 percent from a month ago, according to the Vietnam National Tourism Administration. There were declines of up to 26.3 [...]
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October 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Ineffective co-operation among tourism businesses in implementing stimulus packages is hurting the industry, tour operators say. Water fight: International tourists take a short boat trip across the Bassac river in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta to visit several floating fish farms and villages. More needs to be done to co-ordinate tourism promotion.Based on [...]
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