Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hoi An and Halong in Vietnam are listed in the Top 25 Destinations in Asia and receive the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice: Asia Destination Awards in 2013. A ceremony to honour the Top 25 Destinations in Asia of TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site, will be held in Singapore on June 18. The fifth annual awards recognise 412 outstanding destinations in 38 markets across the globe. The Travelers’ Choice Destinations awards [...]

Over 450,000 domestic and foreign visitors rushed to the four-day Nha Trang Sea Festival 2013 which concluded in the central coastal city of Khanh Hoa on June 11. A string of cultural and sports activities like folk games, fishing competition, human chess games, beach volleyball and handball for men and women impressed the visitors, helping uphold cultural identities of the host locality. Seminars on swallow farming, tourist products and cruise tourism development also highlighted the [...]

Vietnam Discovery Travel JSC. (Owner of Vietnam-visa.com) is happy to announce a remarkable milestone on our business that we officially reached the figure of 100,000th clients using Vietnam visa on arrival service via www.Vietnam-visa.com. This event once more confirmed our leading position in the online Vietnam visa service market in Vietnam. As said, at the end of May, Vietnam-visa.com has personally welcomed our 100,000th clients at Noi Bai International Airport. Mr. Howard Dwayne Spain and [...]

A Japanese culture week commenced in central Nghe An province on June 10 with a wide range of activities. The week was co-organised by the Nghe An Union of Friendship Organisations and the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association to mark the 40 th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties and the 2013 Vietnam-Japan Friendship Year. During the week, numerous photos, books and documents are on display to popularise the image of Japan and its people, and [...]

Local and foreign visitors have flocked to Nha Trang city in central Vietnam to attend an international sea and island tourism fair, which opened at the Diamond Bay Resort on June 8. The International Sea and Island Tourism Fair 2013, the first of its kind in Vietnam, has attracted international tourism businesses from Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines, India, the United Arab Emirates and Bulgaria. More than 100 pavilions at the fair display a variety [...]

As Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan, Head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, the Vietnam Government officially agreed with proposal of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on continuing visa waivers for single-entry visas to Vietnam from seven major tourism markets. In recent time, information related to change on Vietnam visa exemption scheme for nationals of Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Republic of Korea and Japan has worried various travel agencies in general, [...]

Farmers from 21 provinces and cities are showcasing their special fruits at the Southern Fruit Festival 2013, which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on June 1. The annual event hosted by the city aims to introduce to domestic and foreign tourists a variety of Vietnamese fruits, especially those produced in southern provinces. It also offers an opportunity for farmers, producers, distributors and consumers to meet and tighten their relations, thus improving the values of [...]

The Ham Rong cultural tourist site will become an attractive tourist destination in central Thanh Hoa province in the near future. Under an overall planning on preserving, restoring and promoting the values of the Ham Rong historical and cultural relic site recently approved by the Prime Minister, Ham Rong area will be built into a centre of ecotourism, cultural – historical tourism and human cultural tourism, a camping site and an entertainment and sports centre. [...]

The first-ever Lai Thieu Fruit Festival is going to take place on June 8 -12 in Thuan An town in the southern province of Binh Duong. Around 100 booths will showcase handicraft products, traditional foods and assorted fresh fruits of the southeast and southwest region, such as mangosteen, durian, rambutan, pomelo and jackfruit at the festival. The event will also include a fruit arrangement contest, a don ca tai tu (Southern amateur music performance) and [...]

It was late in April, the end of the plum blossom season, in Moc Chau, when my friends and I visited the verdant district in the northwestern province of Son La for the first time. We set off from the My Dinh Bus Station in Hanoi at around 7:30 p.m. and reached Moc Chau, which is about 190 kilometers away, at 2 a.m. or thereabouts. The quiet, peaceful streets and the cool weather (although it [...]

More than 10,000 objects and documents featuring the historical and cultural values of Pho Hien (Hien Street) in the Red River Delta province of Hung Yen are expected to be introduced to the public in 2015 as construction of a large-scaled museum gets underway. Covering more than 22,000 sq.m in Hung Yen city’s centre, the three-storey museum is being built at a cost of nearly 120 billion VND (5.7 million USD). Once operational in 2015, [...]

The 5th Quang Nam Heritage Festival 2013 organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Quang Nam People’s Committee and the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO will take place from June 21-26 in Hoi An. Head of the organization board, Quang Nam People’s Committee Deputy Chairman Tran Minh Ca said that: “The Quang Nam Heritage Festival 2013 will include numerous promotion activities to honor Vietnamese culture and local specific characteristics. The festival will be [...]