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Luxury hotels and resorts in short supply Located more than 100km from Ho Chi Minh City and part of the Southern Key Economic Zone, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province has abundant potential for tourism development by virtue of its 300km-plus coastline. Additionally, the province is home to diverse natural reserve sites, historical relics, and traditional festivals to act out the provincial management’s development orientations for ocean, eco, and spiritual tourism, as well as meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) tourism. Ba Ria-Vung Tau possesses bountiful potential for tourism development The provincial leaders, however, expressed concerns that the province is facing a serious undersupply of medium and high-end hotels and resort venues that feature modern facilities and are operated and managed by global hotel brands, a prime factor helping the province to avail itself of its abundant potential and draw in more local and international visitors. Brightening … [Read more...] about Novaland scales up efforts in sustainable tourism development

PANO – Vietnam will compete in 31 sports at the upcoming 26th SEA Games, to be held in Indonesia from November 11, 2011 to November 22, 2011. The Southeast Asian Sports Council, on February 25th, announced officially the list of sports at the coming sports event. Over the past few days, representatives from ASEAN countries gathered in Bali, Indonesia to discuss the list of sports. Especially, women’s football.  Despite the agreement of the representatives from Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand, women’s footaball will not be included of the list of sports. Accordingly, the upcoming event includes 44 sports events, and 545 sets of medals . Vietnam will take part in 31 sports including: athletics, swimming, diving, archery, badminton, billiards & snooker; canoeing/kayak, cycling, boxing, petanque, fencing, football, judo, chess, rowing, vovinam, sepaktakraw, taekwondo, table-tennis, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, wushu, karatedo, … [Read more...] about Vietnam to compete in 31 sports at the 26th SEA Games