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The three-day festival takes the form of a tourism trade fair and is aimed at introducing the most prestigious tourism companies and their products and services to the general public. Entitled “Southern Land Meeting”, the event is focused on two main activities, the Tourism Trade Fair and Southern Vietnamese Cuisine Festival. The event is made up of 122 pavilions of 62 tourism and travel enterprises from 13 southern cities and provinces who will offer their products through...

Head of the Travel Department, Vu The Binh said in the first three months of the year, the tourism sector welcomed 1,285,954 international visitors, 15.7% more than in the same period last year. There were eight new foreign-invested tourism projects in the first quarter with total registered capital of US$1,621 million, mostly concentrated in the central coastal region. In 2008, the tourism sector will focus on organising major important events such as the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2009 (ATF...

Long and beautiful coasts in the southern province of Binh Thuan are attractive places for investors to build hotels and resorts. Foreign investment in these projects accounts for only 10 per cent of the country’s total foreign investment. VietNamNet Bridge - Demand for new properties, Government incentives and the country’s natural advantages are driving foreign investment in the tourism industry. Phan Huu Thang, head of the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign...

VietNamNet Bridge – Some 350 tourism property projects by 20 companies from twelve provinces and cities nationwide were displayed at the Vietnam Tourism Property Opportunities Conference and Exhibition that kicked off yesterday at the New World Hotel Saigon. The two-day event, named VnTPO-2008, is organized by PhuquocLand East Asia Corporation with an aim to promote investments in the field of real estate, tourism and leisure industries in Vietnam as well as to create a platform...

VietNamNet Bridge – Indonesian airline Lion Air has resumed service to HCM City after a three-year suspension of the low-fare carrier's flights in Vietnam. The daily return flight will leave HCM City at 12:20pm and stop over in Singapore before arriving in Jakarta. The carrier's senior manager of sales and marketing, Chandran Rama Muthy, said the schedule would make it easy for holidaymakers to check in and out at hotels in HCM City. Chandran said tourists were Lion Air's...

Photo: emotino.com VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has sent a dispatch to NewOpenWorld asking the organisers to put Ha Long Bay back in the world natural wonder poll, said a senior official of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). Ha Long Bay out of world wonder poll The official, Vice Head of VNAT’s Tourism Promotion Agency Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, also called for individuals and organisations supporting Ha Long Bay to strictly obey NewOpenWorld’s rules....

VietNamNet Bridge – The number of tourists from Japan and South Korea is now on the decrease. South Korea, traditionally the second biggest inbound tourism market for Vietnam, has fallen to 5 th position, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). 1.29mil international tourists came to Vietnam in Q1 VNAT has released statistics showing that the number of Japanese travellers decreased by 7% in the first three...

VietNamNet Bridge – The Swiss Trustee Suisse Group's Pearl of Asia Development Corp. announced on Monday it would spend six billion euro to build the Pearl of Asia Complex on the southern island of Phu Quoc off Kien Giang Province, which if realized will be the biggest ever project of its type in Vietnam. The complex, which will cover 3,200 hectares, will be realised in two stages with total investment of six billion euro, or more than US$9bil, the company said. "Initially, 275...