January 7, 2012
The number of Vietnamese tourists to Japan is recovering steadily from the low levels it plunged to in the aftermath of the severe earthquake and tsunami that hit the East Asian country in 2011. There are more family and individual tours than in the past when tours were mostly organized by companies or in [...]
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December 20, 2011
Travel agencies already struggling in difficult economic conditions will be hit hard by the latest hike in domestic airfares, industry insiders say. The agencies face both losses on tours already booked and cancellations of bookings because of higher tour prices. In fact, the airfare hike makes foreign tours more attractive to local customers, they [...]
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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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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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June 22, 2011
Vietnam will include tours to the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelagoes in a sea tourism development project to be conducted from now until 2020, officials said at a conference Thursday.  Nguyen Van Tuan, who heads the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), told the conference in Hanoi that these tours werer a [...]
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May 7, 2011
The representatives of Vietnamese travel agencies will attend a survey trip to Japan this month meant to encourage travel agencies to resume booking tours to the country.  Since March, HCMC’s travel agencies have delayed all tours to Japan due to the duo-disasters and the Fukushima nuclear crisis.  According to Nguyen Van Thanh, [...]
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March 31, 2011
Visitors at an international tourism exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City last year Cambodians who can afford to travel are finding more and more reasons to visit Vietnam, especially for medical purposes. However, despite the figures showing significant jumps in the number of visitors from the neighboring nation, most local travel agencies are showing a [...]
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December 11, 2010
 Two tourists prepares for kite surfing on a beach of the coastal resort town of Phan Thiet. The tourism industry is projected to generate US$4.6 billion this year, according to local tourist authorities. Travel firms reported an increasing demand for domestic and outbound tours on Christmas and New Year holidays this year. Many cited [...]
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November 8, 2010
A foreign tourist visits the northern resort town of Sa Pa The recent weakening of the dong against the dollar has not enabled travel agencies to attract more foreign visitors, instead, higher costs of outbound tours have actually reduced their profit margins. On the so-called black market, the dong weakened to as much as 20,940 [...]
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