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VietNamNet Bridge – Ben Thanh Tourist in HCMC has launched a six-day and five-night tour to 11 provinces in the Mekong Delta region, aiming to give a glimpse of the southern region to travelers. The tour will include attractions in Long An, Dong Thap, An Giang, Kien Giang, Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Soc Trang, Hau Giang, Can Tho, Vinh Long and Tien Giang. The provinces have common natural scenery such as floating markets, rural waterways and fruit gardens. However, each province also...

A hotel in Nha Trang City VietNamNet Bridge – The time for Miss Universe 2008 pageant (July) will be also the tourism season in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province so it is worrying that the city may lack hotel rooms for tourists on this occasion. Besides competitors, their managers and relatives, Miss Universe will attract around 600 local and foreign journalists and many international visitors. The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Khanh Hoa province predicts that the...

Sofitel Plaza, one of hotels managed by Accor in Hanoi VietNamNet Bridge – From mid-2008 to 2010, the Accor group will open 10 high-class hotels in Vietnam . , Mercure and Novotel brands. This year Accor will inaugurate two Novotel hotels in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province and Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province. . . . This group is managing Sofitel Metropole Hanoi, Sofitel Plaza Hanoi, Mercure Hanoi la Gare (which will open in 2009) and...

VietNamNet Bridge – Leaving the coastal city of Nha Trang, the AeroSpace bus of S.Tours heads northward on National Road 1A for Phu Yen Province, which is home to a small bay called Vung Ro. The imposing landscapes along the road with the mountains on the right and the sea on the left quickly pass through the bus windows. After covering some 100 kilometers, the bus mounts Ca Pass, where there is a narrow road on the famous Truong Son mountain range. From above, seawater looks...

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is failing to exploit the tourist potential of its waterways due to a shortage of mooring stations for boats, said La Quoc Khanh, vice director of HCM City's Tourism Department. River transport is further hampered by low bridges, which are impassable to large craft at high tide, such as those at Binh Loi, Rach Cat and at where the junction of the Loi Giang and Vam Sat rivers, he said. "Marine tourism is still modest, on a very small scale, which is...

The central province authorities have also encouraged investments in activities designed to promote the image of traditional craft villages. Dinh Hai, Director of the Department of Tourism, said Hoi An has optimum conditions for developing craft villages to serve tourism. The ancient town’s Kim Bong carpentry village, Thanh Ha pottery village and Tra Que vegetable village attract a large number of tourists, he said. The Hoi An Tourism Company launched an imaginative tour three...

VietNamNet Bridge – Some 147 competitors including expatriates and locals joined a sporting competition for fun called 'Le Fruit Triathlon', organized in the seaside resort town of Phan Thiet over the weekend. The triathlon was held in two categories, the 'long' and the 'short' events. Contestants from France, England, Thailand, Belgium, the Netherlands and America among others raced each other in seawater, swimming either 500 in the long or 250 meters in the short...

VietNamNet Bridge – Jetstar Pacific Airlines is pressing ahead with a plan to improve its network to make it easier for more passengers to book airtickets online after the offering of 10,000 promotional tickets caused network jamming last week. Nam, however, said it took at least three weeks for the new Internet line to start operation. . Binh said the old 1-megabit line could not meet a large number of bookings at a time as had happened on May 28 when Jetstar Pacific offered...