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Chairman of Do Son district People’s Committee, Hoang Dinh Binh said the 2008 Do Son tourism festival will be a chance for the district to attract both investors and visitors. Bus service between City, Siem Reap to start The Kumho Samco Express Transportation Co Ltd will start a coach service from HCM City to Siem Reap, Cambodia this May. The service targets tourists who fly on Kumho Asiana Group’s Asiana Airlines, which has fights from South Korea to HCM City and Siem Reap....

In addition, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, who heads the national steering committee on tourism, has assigned the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism to come up with a plan for encouraging more international arrivals by road and another for luring more tourists from China, Korean and Japan. (Source: SGGP)

To entertain the overnighters and day-trippers, there are kylin and dragon dances, displays of martial art, puppet shows and folk games such as bit mat dap nieu (where a blindfolded person tries to beat a clay pot) and nhay sap (dancing on a bamboo pole). Among the highlights are the age-old and very special quan ho folk songs of the province once called Kinh Bac and now named Bac Ninh. Admission to all the entertainment and activities is free. (Source: SGGP)...

VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has put on hold the job of licensing travel firms that want to provide inbound services while pending the issue of a circular guiding the implementation of the Tourism Law. In a notice issued last Wednesday signed by acting head of VNAT Nguyen Quoc Ky, the national tourism body is now compiling the circular for submission to the Prime Minister for approval. The department will resume the licensing job as...

A Japanese investor who visited Con Son uttered: “The air here can be sold for gold.” The local government plans to develop an ecological tourism project on these islands, said Dinh Viet Khanh, Director of the Can Tho Department of Tourism. Under this plan, Con Au will be a resort and entertainment centre; Cai Khe will be a modern general tourism centre; Con Khuong will host orchard-villas; Con Son will be a resort for the old, while Tan Loc will host craft village and orchard...

Ben Thanh Tourist arrange tours for Hue Day 1 will include a morning visit to famous tourist spots such as the Thien Mu Pagoda, the Nguyen dynasty’s royal palace and Dong Ba Market. In the afternoon tourists will return to the royal palace for the festival’s programmes including jazz and rock and roll performances, Russian art, traditional South Korean dances, a Canadian circus troupe and the American band Kimotion. Tourists will spend their second morning enjoying street...

Hon Gai Port VietNamNet Bridge - Lotus, a cruise ship that operates regularly between HCM City and Ha Long Bay, berthed at the Hon Gai International Passenger Port in Ha Long for the first time last Sunday. Around 1,000 passengers were traveling aboard the ship. Port authorities said it was the first time that a giant vessel had berthed there. The port cost about VND 645 billion (US$40 million) to build. The ship, regarded as the most luxurious and modern cruise liner in...