Price Cuts to Attract Customers

Many tour companies are already offering discounts and other promotions to attract customers." Vietsmile Travel Company said they reduced some tours by US$50- $60 and the company was considering reducing its profit margins in order to keep regular customers. Some...

HCMC Fruit Festival Gets Off To Popular Start

Visitors bought more than 500 tons of fresh fruit during the first week of the HCMC Fruit Festival in Suoi Tien Park that opened June 1."With the number of visitors increasing by 40 percent this year and...

Furama Resort Danang selected as top resort in Southeast Asia

"The five-star Furama Resort in the central city of Da Nang has been selected by Singapore ’s Agoda, an online tourism magazine, as one of the most beautiful resorts in Southeast Asia .The magazine’s CEO...

Pacific Airlines delays opening of two domestic routes

Vietnam’s second carrier PacificAirlines will postpone the operation of the HCM City – Danang and HCMCity – Buon Me Thuot routes schedule for August 2008 because petroleumand oil price rises, announced the...

Low-cost airlines rush into Vietnam - Vietnam Airlines

As surveyed, manylow-cost airlines in the region have found success in Vietnam,facilitating the air-travel demand of local passengers. But, this floodhas set new challenges for Vietnam airline.Vietnam Airline is...

Ha Giang seeks UNESCO recognition for ancient stone park

This is news to me, i hope Ha Giang is recognised by Unesco, Ha Giang will become an attractive tourist site."The Vietnam Geology Institute and the Vietnam Ethnology Museum are preparing documents to submit to...

Poor children’s art gets London show

More than 20 lacquer paintings by street children in Ho Chi Minh City are on display at an exhibition in London. The exhibition is organised by the Christina Noble Foundation from March 27 to April 3."Exhibition...

Cherry blossom festival to open in Hanoi

Acherry blossom festival will be held in Hanoi on April 6 duringcelebrations to mark the 35th anniversary of Vietnam-Japan diplomaticties."The Japan Sakura Festival, the second of its kind, will showcase three...

Ha Long Tourism Festival 2008 gets new features

With the theme “Ha Long – Towards a world natural wonder”, the Ha Long Tourism Festival 2008 will be organized as an undersea and roadshow carnival, from April 26 to May 1."Vice Chairman of the...

Int’l firework contest debuts in Da Nang

The first international firework competition in Vietnam opened last night, March 27, on the bank of the Han River in the central city of Da Nang, attracting tens of thousands of visitors."The contest opened with...

Unique old cars now in Hanoi

"The Tiger Rally 2008, a trans-Asia road show of antique cars, will not parade through Hanoi on March 28 as scheduled, but two unique old cars are now in Hanoi.   The trans-Asia tour of antique cars of famous...

Veteran singer’s secrets revealed

Few Vietnamese people are unfamiliar with the romantic tunes of music icon Trinh Cong Son, but not many know the late singer was also once in the movies.Son - an anti-war composer who was referred as the Bob Dylan...

12 day tour of northern Vietnam - Vietnam Tour

Ben Thanh Tourist recently launched a 12-day tour taking tourists from HCMC to northern Vietnam and China.The 12-day tour will take in Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Lao Cai in Vietnam and Yunnan Province in China. This route...

One hundred and four laureates honoured

One hundred and four laureates including students who gained the highest scores in the 2007 entrance exams, attained excellent results in the first term of the 2007-2008 school year and won gold medals in the 2007...

Asiana to open air route to Da Nang - Airlines in Vietnam

The Republic of Korea’s Asiana airlines plans to open a direct air route from the country to Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang in July-August this year, according to the airlines’ President Kang Joo An.The...

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