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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January 8, 2012
Experts say more should be done to eliminate scam taxis after inspections led to the suspension of eleven firms in HCMC and Hanoi An imitation taxi passes foreign tourists near HCMC’s Ben ThanhâMarket. Experts say Vietnam must do more to eliminate illegal taxis that tarnish the image of major cities. Nguyen Chi Hieu hailed [...]
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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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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 9, 2011
Canal carrying water from one of the ancient wells to farms in Gio Linh District Quang Tri Province’s best known tourist attractions are DMZ tours, Cam Lo Market, and relics of an uprising led by a man who was crowned as King Ham Nghi in 1885, becoming the eighth emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty. But [...]
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November 28, 2011
Three of the four pickpoketers at a Hue police station on Nov 24 Police in the central city of Hue on Thursday arrested two homeless women and two boys for pickpocketing foreign tourists in popular tourist sites, online newspaper Dan Tri reported. Nguyen Thi Loc, 25, Ho Thi Kim Lien, 22, Tran Van Hieu, 15, [...]
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August 7, 2011
Vietnam hopes new resort complex on southern island will be a major fillip for tourism industry Phu Quoc Island, where the government plans to develop a casino resort With a multi-billion dollar casino project already in motion, hopes are now high in the tourism industry that Phu Quoc will turn into a resort island [...]
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June 19, 2011
Tourist boats on Halong Bay, one of Vietnam's most popular tourist attractions. Vietnam has delayed the introduction of new boat safety rules at a top tourist site where 12 people drowned in February, after tour operators went on strike in protest, an official said Monday. Almost 500 boats refused to operate last Friday on Ha [...]
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June 11, 2011
Thousands of tourists were stranded at the Bai Chay Port, this Friday. Thousands of tourists found themselves stranded at Bai Chay Port after around 500 tourist boats shut down their operations, on Friday morning. The holdup at Ha Long Bay’s major passenger port was created by a knew set of guidelines known as the 716 Decision. The [...]
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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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