January 17, 2012
More than 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay will be decorated with white details instead of being repainted white totally to “renovate” the site’s tourism sector, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Vu Thi Thu Thuy, vice chairwoman of the People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh [...]
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January 9, 2012
Authorities in the northern province of Quang Ninh have asked that Ha Long Bay boats be painted white, saying the change befits the bay’s recent international recognition. A report Friday in VnExpress said, under the decision issued on Thursday by Quang Ninh’s People’s Committee, all tourist boats, except dragon boats, will be white with brown sails. [...]
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December 26, 2011
Still from a security camera shows Mark Zuckerberg (first, left) visiting a Verty luxury mobile phone shop in Hanoi on Thursday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girl friend Pricilla Chan spent Christmas Eve on a cruise ship on Ha Long Bay. Â They were spotted first at a cell phone shop in Hanoi’s Metropole [...]
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December 12, 2011
A panoramic view of Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long Bay. Experts have called for improved services and preservation work as the UNESCO World Heritage Site gains further recognition as a natural wonder. A hike in admission fees for the Ha Long Bay, Vietnam’s foremost tourism site, has drawn a lot of flak, particularly over [...]
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December 9, 2011
There are many factors responsible for this, but the key reasons are: poor infrastructure, poor tourism promotion; and weak cooperation between travel agents and service providers. These combine to make tour prices in Vietnam less competitive than those in other countries, Nguyen Cong Hoan, vice director of travel agent Hanoi Redtour, told Thanh Nien [...]
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December 5, 2011
Ha Long Bay, recently listed as one of the new seven wonders of the world, should have higher admission fees commensurate with its prestige, Tuoi Tre quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Do Duc Thang, deputy chief of the bay’s management board, made the statement two days after the Quang Ninh People’s Committee began charging nearly twice as much [...]
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November 21, 2011
New world title will make no difference until existing infrastructure, services are improved, experts say A tourist boat sails past the stone islands of Ha Long Bay Ha Long Bay, by virtue of being the jewel in Vietnam’s tourism crown, has always been in the spotlight, but the lights have just gotten a lot [...]
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November 18, 2011
AÂ view of the Ha Long Bay, which stretches along 120 kilometers of coastline in northern Vietnam The joy at Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay entering the temporary list of the seven new wonders of nature has been tempered by concerns the high profile could see an unmanageable spurt in tourism, damaging the world heritage site. [...]
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November 14, 2011
 Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay is one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature, announced the New7Wonders Foundation on November 12 after the first count of global voting ended a day earlier. In alphabetical order, the seven winners are the Amazon, Ha Long Bay, Iguazu Falls, Jeju Island, Komodo, Puerto Princesa Underground River and [...]
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October 21, 2011
After a month of introductory single-night cruises, Life Resorts plans to make multiple-night voyages in Ha Long Bay on heritage junks available in time for the grand opening on November 4. A group of travel agents, tour operators, government officials and reporters will be the first to experience the Life Resorts fleet on a [...]
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Ha Long Bay boats do not have to be painted wholly white: authorities
More than 500 tourist boats in Ha Long Bay will be decorated with white details instead of being repainted white totally to “renovate” the site’s tourism sector, the VnExpress newswire quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Vu Thi Thu Thuy, vice chairwoman of the People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh [...]
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