Jan
19
Saigontourist Travel Service Co provided on-shore services to around 2,000 passengers, mainly from Italy, Spain, and the UK, who arrived on board the five-star cruise ship Costa Classica at Ho Chi Minh City ‘s Navi Oil Port, on Jan. 2012. After a sightseeing tour of the city, the tourists enjoyed a water puppetry show, went …
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Nov
26
Hue Festival 2012 will coincide with the National Tourism Year for the north central coastal region, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced at a press briefing in Hanoi on November 23. The opening ceremony of Hue Festival will be held on April 7, 2012, showcasing distinctive music and dance programs, carnivals, religious rituals, …
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Nov
21
HCM City has welcomed 1,100 foreign scientists, doctors, and academics who have come on a MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions) trip for an ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies conference that runs from yesterday (Nov 17) to tomorrow (Nov 19). The city-based Ben Thanh Tourist said the visitors are staying at luxury hotels like the Sheraton …
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Nov
11
Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay has been named in a temporary list of the world’s 10 new wonders of nature by the New Open World Corporation, four days before the poll ends. By November 6, Ha Long Bay had more than 8 million voting messages. The others in the top ten include: the Dead Sea in …
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Nov
09
The Saigontourist Travel Service has coordinated with Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations to organize a festival to advertise HCM City tourism in New York. Chairman of the HCM City municipal People’s Committee, Le Hoang Quan and head of the Permanent Mission to the UN, Le Hoai Trung, attended the November 4 event along …
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Nov
05
The HCMC Tourism Association has continued to petition Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and the central bank to allow travel agencies to enjoy commercial term interest rates from deposits instead of the low rate for call deposits. Nguyen Thi Khanh, vice chairwoman of the HCMC Tourism Association, said that the organization would continue to …
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Nov
04
The Vietnam – China International Trade Fair 2011 will take place from November 11-16 in Lao Cai province, The Northern border province of Vietnam. The six-day fair themed “Cooperation – friendship for integration and development” expects to attract 300 enterprises showcasing goods at 700 pavilions , including 250 pavilions of Chinese businesses, according to Lao …
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Oct
29
The morning of 26 October, the company Tan Hong Travel Service branch of Quang Ninh has welcomed the international 5-star ship Star Cruise has taken more than 2,000 tourists and crew members from countries such as Australia, Britain, France .. . to visit Halong Bay. As scheduled, Star Cruise ship tourists will visit Halong Bay, …
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Oct
21
Many experts think that Vietnam now has too many airports, while only three of them can make profit. However, the Ministry of Transport has affirmed that Vietnam needs to build more airports. Over the last many years, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has continuously received the requests from local authorities to speed up …
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Aug
19
The fifth sports and cultural festival for ethnic minority groups opened in the northernmost mountainous province of Ha Giang on August 17. The fifth sports and cultural festival for ethnic minority groups opened in the northernmost mountainous province of Ha Giang on August 17. 11 local sports teams and art troupes have registered to take …
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