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Nearly 150 booths are showcasing their products at a trade and tourism fair held in Lang Son Province. (Photo: VNN) VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 150 booths of more than 100 businesses from 20 provinces and cities nationwide and foreign countries are showcasing their products at a trade and tourism fair held in northern border Lang Son Province from September 16-21. The fair, co-organised by the provincial Industry and Trade Department and the Fair and Trade Joint Stock...

VietNamNet Bridge – In order to entice more ASEAN travelers, HCMC-based Ben Thanh Tourist has launched tours to attractions in the central and southern areas of the country passing through the border gates in the region. Of the five new tours, four of them start at the Lao Bao border gate in the central province of Quang Tri, and the fifth starts in the Southern province of Tay Ninh. These tours last around three to five days. "The ASEAN travelers want short tours that combine...

In March 2008, the Southern Airports Authority began a 1,000 billion VND (60 million USD) project to construct a terminal that can serve 2 million passengers per year. International flights from and to the terminal are planned for 2010. (Source: VNA)

Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC (illustration only) VietNamNet Bridge - Low prices (and not so low prices), high discomfort seem to be the motto of no-frills airlines whose ticket prices start ticking upwards the minute you spot them. As tourists flock to shopping havens like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Bali during this promotional season, no-frills airlines in Ho Chi Minh City are offering too-good-to-believe discounts to these...

The late morning sunlight seemed to flow like a river along a mountainside to color it amber, and in the distance, green corn fields tried to balance the bright and the dark with its cool shade. The whole picture became animated suddenly as the wind moved the corn crop to do a belly dance in unison from the top to the bottom of the mountain. Stone walls are part of H'Mong's culture A short trip to Lung Cu gave me a lot of unforgettable memories, especially some local...

The foot of Mount Tuy Van begins in Dong Am village, 50km from the centre of Hue, which lies to the east. It is an imposing mountain that looms over the surrounding landscape. From the top you can see the whole province of in Thua Thien Hue and the great blue of the Eastern Sea. I am not here to trek to the top, however, but to take a leisurely stroll around and I am fortunate to have the local historian Ho Tan Phan as a guide. We follow a path that skirts Cau Hai lagoon and passes a...

Hoang Anh Tuan, Viet Nam's Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, opens the ASEM tourism forum on September 11 VietNamNet Bridge - Participants at the Asia-Europe Meeting’s (ASEM) forum on tourism cooperation held in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday discussed possible agreements on sustainable tourism and socio-economic development. The organization forecasts there will be 1.56 billion tourists in 2020. Among these 717 million tourists will visit Europe and 397 million...

Vietnam tourism promoted in Russia The Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism will organise two promotion programmes in Moscow and St Petersburg during the Viet Nam Cultural Days in Russia. The two-day event to take place in St Peterburg on September 18 and in Moscow on September 19 will include introductions to Viet Nam tourism along with art performances and fashion shows. In the first eight months of this year, Russian tourists to Vietnam increased by 5 per cent against the...