The first Vietnam Travel & Tourism Summit will take place at the Intercontinental Landmark72 hotel on December 5-6. (Photo: vnexpress.net) Hanoi (VNA) – The first Vietnam Travel & Tourism Summit will take place at the Intercontinental Landmark72 hotel in Hanoi on December 5-6 in the framework of the Vietnam Economic Forum (ViEF) 2018. Held by the board for private economic development research (IV Board under the Government’s Advisory Council for Administrative Procedure Reform), the online newspaper VnExpress and the Vietnam Tourism Advisory Board (TAB), the event is expected to draw 1,500 guests, who are managers, business operators and scholars. To enhance international cooperation and popularise local tourism, the organising board has invited leaders of renowned tourism and service groups like Australia’s Flight Centre, Virgin, Japan’s H.I.S and Singaporean Banyan Tree. The forum offers opportunities for domestic and foreign businesses to … [Read more...] about Hanoi to host first Vietnam Travel & Tourism Summit
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Vietravel honored as ‘Best Vietnam Travel Agency’
(VOVworld) - Vietravel has been honored for the fourth consecutive year as the "Best Vietnam Travel Agency" by TTG Asia Magazine. … [Read more...] about Vietravel honored as ‘Best Vietnam Travel Agency’
Munich Airport eyes more Vietnam travelers
Munich Airport eyes more Vietnam travelers By Binh Nguyen - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC - Munich Airport has joined forces with Thai Airways and travel partners of Germany and Austria over a major marketing program to attract more Vietnamese visitors, buoyed by a strong increase in Vietnamese arrivals. Florian Poetsch, head of travel industry at Munich Airport, said when he was in HCMC last week that the airport, one of the most popular gateways to Europe for Asian travelers, recorded a significant rise in Asian passengers last year, particularly those from Vietnam. “We saw the highest increase in passengers last year from Vietnam with a plus of 75%,” Poetsch said, though he did not give the exact number of Vietnamese visitors through Munich Airport in 2011. Speaking to the Daily, Poetsch projected a 50%-70% jump in Vietnamese travelers through Munich Airport this year was obtainable because of the fact that from this airport travelers were able to explore the “Jewels … [Read more...] about Munich Airport eyes more Vietnam travelers
Vietway, Air Mauritius join forces to draw Vietnam travelers
Vietway, Air Mauritius join forces to draw Vietnam travelers By Mong Binh - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC - The local company Vietway has teamed up with Air Mauritius to offer aviation and travel services for customers traveling from Vietnam to the island country in the Indian Ocean. Nguyen Ngoc Tu, managing director of Vietway Co. Ltd., said her company would provide a variety of aviation and travel services from ticketing, tour designing to visa procedures for Vietnamese and expatriates from this market. Vietway has been acting as the general sales agent for Air Mauritius in Vietnam under a two-year agreement the two sides clinched late last year, she said. As the general sales agent, Tu said Vietway would arrange air ticket bookings for Air Mauritius in Vietnam, visa procedures and trips for both leisure and business travelers from Vietnam to the island destination. Tu clarified Vietway received visa applications from passengers in Vietnam bound for Mauritius and then help them … [Read more...] about Vietway, Air Mauritius join forces to draw Vietnam travelers
Vietnam travelers cancel S.Korea tours amid MERS scare
Vietnam travelers cancel S.Korea tours amid MERS scare Dao Loan By Dao Loan - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – Many Vietnamese people have cancelled their tours to South Korea over fear of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) which is spreading in the northeast Asian country, tour operators said. Tu Quy Thanh, director of Lien Bang Travelink, said customers have called his company asking for updates about the MERS caused by coronavirus in South Korea and around 20% of those who have already booked tours to that country have dropped their bookings. “In June we arrange tours for only two groups of tourists to Korea, with the first group already returning home and the second planning to depart soon. We have had to refund those customers canceling our tours to Korea,” Thanh told the Daily on Sunday. Lien Bang Travelink normally organizes two to four Korea tours every month. But due to concerns over the MERS, the company has delayed new bookings for tours to that … [Read more...] about Vietnam travelers cancel S.Korea tours amid MERS scare