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Hotels “upgrade” themselves, cheat tourists[Code: 2147]

VietNamNet Bridge – Tourism managers recently inspected 11 hotels in Hanoi and 7 of them violated tourism rules by rating themselves with at least 3 stars. According to inspectors, the most popular violation is guest houses and one- and two-star hotels cheating tourists by hanging 3-star hotel boards, because most foreign tourists want to stay in hotels of at least 3-star standard. They only hang the boards when tourists come, and then take them down....

Hue opens information centre for tourists[Code: 2146]

and Huetronics, the centre is open free for all visitors during Festival Hue, June 3-17. The centre provides Vietnamese and foreign visitors with information about the ongoing Festival Hue and free Internet connection. After the Festival, the centre will still be open for tourists. (Source: Tien Phong)

Exploring life along Hau River[Code: 2145]

VietNamNet Bridge – Chau Doc Town is located in the southern province of An Giang on the border with Cambodia. Visitors to the town can learn about the daily activities of people who live on the river in the Mekong Delta in the Hau River, also called Bassac River, the popular entry and exit road between Cambodia and Vietnam. First stop would be the floating fruit market in a traditional sampan where hundreds of boats of all sizes gather to unload and pick up many kinds of fruits...

City needs trained tourism staff[Code: 2144]

Dong Thi Kim Vui said more than half the personnel working in the tourism sector were untrained. To address the shortage, her department had made short-term plans as well as long-term strategies to develop human resources. Through the rest of this year it would organise short-term training courses for tour guides and hotel personnel, especially those working in small and medium-sized hotels. The city People’s Committee had allowed her department to do a comprehensive survey of...

Foreigners arrive in droves as tourism booms[Code: 2143]

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam welcomed 2.1 million foreign visitors in the first five months of the year, an increase of 16.6 per cent over the same period last year, according to domestic tourist agencies. Demand for travel by foreign visitors to Vietnam on the Liberation Day (April 30) and Labour Day (May 1) increased greatly. Ha Long Bay attracted more than 10,000 visitors per day, of which 80 percent were foreign visitors. Most foreign visitors to Vietnam in the first five...

HCM City greeted over 1.2 million foreigners in five months[Code: 2142]

At present, the city tourism department is focusing on speeding up promotion and advertising activities, reprinting City Guide publications, maps and events timetablesin Korean, Russian, Chinese and French languages. Moreover, it is actively gearing up for the Southern Fruit Festival on June 1 and an international tourism festival on September 2008. (Source: VOV)

Caravan tour across four SEA countries launched[Code: 2141]

The trip will start in Viet Nam and then cross into Thailand, Cambodia and finished in the Genting highlands, the most popular travel destination in Malaysia. The participants will travel more than 5,000 km and have the chance to visit famous tourist attractions including Battambang and Siem Reap in Cambodia; Poi Pet town on the border of Thailand and Cambodia; HuaHin, Hat Yai and Phuket in Thailand. Experienced drivers interested can register to take part the tour at 78 Tran Hung Dao...

City eyes global media to promote tourism[Code: 2140]

Ho Chi Minh City Museum VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City will focus on promoting its tourism globally in the next two years, the People’s Committee has said. It will make efforts to increase international media exposure for its destinations, cultural events, and other attractive aspects, build more hotels and tourist destinations, and collaborate with neighboring cities and provinces to develop tourism. The city is also trying to develop MICE...

TRAVEL IN BRIEF 31/5[Code: 2139]

HCM City-based travellers spend more on overseas tourism According to the HCM City Department of Tourism, nearly 65,000 Vietnamese visitors went abroad in the January-April period via Tan Son Nhat International Airport, an increase of 8 per cent compared to the same period last year. Popular destinations of Vietnamese tourists are China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia. Le Hong Viet Thao of Viettravel said tours to Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, the US and Europe are...

Egg-laying sea turtles draw visitors to Con Dao Island[Code: 2138]

VietNamNet Bridge – Quiet Con Dao Island, situated 97 nautical miles north-west of southern Vung Tau City, gets a bit noisier each year between April and September. It is during these months that visitors already drawn by the chance to observe abundant wildlife flock to the island’s sandy beaches for the rare opportunity to watch sea turtles lay their eggs. Con Dao National Park, one of the country’s top six biodiversity hotspots for both land and sea, contains thousands...

Romana offers special program for summer vacation[Code: 2137]

VietNamNet Bridge – Romana Resort & Spa is featuring a promotion to attract more vacationers to the resort which was designed with all guest rooms having ocean views. The resort is offering a deluxe ocean room for two at the price of US$68 net, including breakfast for two. In addition the resort will present 1,000 Romana VIP Cards for the first 1,000 bookings in the summer with exclusive benefits including discount on promotion room rates, spa treatments, food and beverages...

Indochina countries to be featured as single tourist destination[Code: 2136]

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia will be promoted as a single destination for international tourists at an upcoming tourism exhibition in HCMC, said a senior local tourism official. HCMC Department of Tourism director Dong Thi Kim Vui said city tourism officials came to Laos and Cambodia last week to discuss co-operation in the common promotion scheme. This is part of the annual International Travel Expo HCMC 2008, or ITE 2008, which is scheduled for September 12...

HCM City-based travellers spend more overseas[Code: 2135]

The firm offers tours to attractions such as Nha Trang, Vung Tau, Da Lat, Phan Thiet, Hue, Da Nang, Hoi An and those to other Asian destinations including Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau and the Chinese mainland. (Source: VNA)

Where the morning sun first shines on Vietnamese land[Code: 2134]

VietNamNet Bridge – Dawn begins as early as 4:30 a.m. when the first light shines in the sky before the sun emerges on the horizon at 5:20 a.m. By 5:45 a.m. the sun is casting its shadow over Mui Doi (twin cape), which is part of Hon Gom Peninsular in Khanh Hoa Province. Many tourism documents identify Dai Lanh or Dien Cape, in the central coastal province of Phu Yen, as the easternmost inland part of Vietnam. The reason is that this cape is easily accessed by coaches and...

Can Tho hosts Mekong Fruit Festival[Code: 2133]

The fruit festival is one of the numerous activities held as part of the 2008 Mekong - Can Tho National Tourism Year. The festival allows visitors to participate in a wide range of activities such as boat races, folk games, and food fairs and a competition to arrange fruit to resemble animal shapes. (Source: SGGP)


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