Tourism

Visa and Tourism Advisory Board join forces to attract international visitors to Vietnam On December 9, Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, and the Vietnam Tourism Advisory Board (TAB), signed an MoU to work together to encourage more tourists to visit Vietnam, as well as improve the traveling experience while they’re here. Vietnam is one of the top ten fastest growing tourism markets in the world, with the country seeing VND637 trillion gross revenue from the industry in 2018 alone. Despite this, the industry faces some major challenges, such as underdeveloped infrastructure, human resourcing and skills issues, and strong competition from neighbouring tourist destinations. While Vietnam has been rapidly expanding its acceptance of electronic payments, there are still many popular tourist establishments country-wide where travelers can only pay with cash. Dang Tuyet Dung, Visa country manager for Vietnam and Laos said, “We’re very happy to be … [Read more...] about Visa and Tourism Advisory Board join forces to attract international visitors to Vietnam

Assorted activities to welcome New Year 2019 will be held at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism, in the Dong Mo tourism area of Son Tay town, Hanoi, during a four-day holiday from December 29, 2018 to January 1, 2019. Assorted activities will be held at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism to welcome New Year 2019 The programme will feature a rural market recreating the distinctive space of an open-air market in the northern mountainous region, folk songs and dances, and puppetry performances by artists from the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre. Traditional crafts and cuisine of ethnic groups in the region will also be introduced to visitors at the village, including the forging craft of H’Mong people, weaving craft of the Lao, and the making of five-colour sticky rice of the Dao, among others. On the eve of New Year 2019, a programme entitled ‘New Year Pine Tree’ was staged at the Vietnam Central Circus by the … [Read more...] about Culture-Tourism Village to host assorted activities to welcome New Year 2019

The service, with five flights a week using Airbus A320 aircraft, is its second between Cambodia and Da Nang after a daily service from Siem Reap, the carrier said in statement on Tuesday.  The flights are on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Rising demand and a goal of attracting more visitors to the two cities encouraged it to launch the service, the statement said. The frequency could be increased early next year based on demand, a Cambodia Angkok Air source said. The carrier plans to launch more direct services to Vietnamese destinations like resort town Da Lat in the Central Highlands, Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO natural heritage site in northern Vietnam. Vietnam is one of Cambodia’s biggest tourism markets, Chhay Sivlin, president of the Cambodia Association of Travel Agents, said. Cambodia wants to attract about one million Vietnamese tourists in 2020, up from the current 900,000. Da Nang, home to Asia’s most beautiful beach, My Khe, and next … [Read more...] about Cambodia Angkor Air begins direct flights from Phnom Penh to Da Nang

BIM Group and Hyatt Hotels Corporation recently signed a hotel service agreement for the Park Hyatt Phu Quoc Residences project, the first branded residences managed by Hyatt Hotels in Southeast Asia. Representatives from the two sides spoke to Viet Nam News about their views of Viet Nam’s tourism potential and their prospects for the partnership. Monika Dubaj, Vice President of Development, Hyatt Hotels Corporation Monika Dubaj, Vice President of Development, Hyatt Hotels Corporation Viet Nam’s tourism sector has seen a boom in recent years but many beautiful regions still have great potential, such as Phu Quoc Island. What are your strategies to optimise the potential of these areas? Viet Nam is indisputably on its way to becoming a leading global tourism destination. Over the last decade, Viet Nam's tourist arrivals have grown from four million to 17 million, which is a huge success story. I really believe this is an impressive start to a promising journey. Viet Nam … [Read more...] about In’l partnership drives VN resort developer toward luxury segment

Prompted by floods triggered by heavy rains for days, the Phu Quoc International Airport was closed temporarily from 9 a.m. on Friday. The airport, which connects Vietnam's largest island with major cities Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and several Asian destinations, saw its runway submerged by 0.3 meters on Friday. "The airport could not receive arriving flights. The weather conditions did not ensure safety so we had to suspend all flight services," said Nguyen Minh Dong, director of the airport. Dong said right after the airport resumed operation at 8:30 p.m., five flights took off, carrying around 1,000 passengers out of the island off Kien Giang Province. However, a number of flights scheduled for Friday evening and night were canceled, leaving 1,560 passengers stuck on the island. Vietjet Air suspended two flights on Friday evening to Hanoi and two others to HCMC. Vietnam Airlines and Vasco canceled all flights to and from the island on Friday while Jetstar Pacific called off four … [Read more...] about Over 1,500 stuck on flooded Phu Quoc island as airlines cancel service