Vietnam’s tourism grows 19%

Vietnam National Administration of Tourism estimates the country welcomed 558,751 international travellers in May representing an increase of 19.7% over the same month last year. Thailand’s outbound trips to Vietnam ranked 10th with 21,281 trips down 2.5% from 21,828 trips last year. China led the field as the top source during May with 148,606 trips improving 65.0% from 90,064 followed by South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States.  Neigbouring...

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Red river culture, sports and tourism week kicked off

On Saturday, May 11 2013, the opening ceremony of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Week and the second Red Flamboyant Festival were officially held in Hai Phong City, which triggered another fantastic National Tourism Year.  With a wide range of performances: art shows, water puppet performance, culinary exhibition, fireworks or boat racing, etc, this year’s festival promises a golden chance for Hai Phong City to differentiate itself with...

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Vietnamese restaurants in the list of top 101 asia's best

The famous US food website Daily Meal has just selected five restaurants in Vietnam to be in the list of the 101 best restaurants in Asia. In which, four restaurants come from Ho Chi Minh City: “Lemongrass” was ranked the 21st, “Quan Ngon” took the 28th place, “Hoi An” came up with the 71st place and finally “Mandarine” with the 95th position.“Le Maison 1888” is the only restaurant of Da Nang to be listed in the list, which...

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New Hanoi – Bangkok route by VietJetAir

Low-cost VietJetAir has high hopes that its latest service linking Hanoi and Bangkok will boost business and leisure travel between the two cities during the tourist low-season. The airline’s business development manager, Desmond Lin, said the daily connection between the two capital cities should increase two-way traffic with a profitable mix of business and leisure traffic. “This new route will help build demand and encourage growth … it...

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Wi-Fi covers Danang

Danang a major port city and tourism gateway in central Vietnam will provide free internet access for residents and tourists by September. Originally, installation was supposed to be completed by June. The city plans to spend nearly US$2 million to install free wireless internet. Danang Department of Information and Communication director, Pham Kim Son, said nearly 400 Wi-Fi routers with 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bandwidths will be installed at tourist...

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