More policies are needed to help the tourism sector and travel agencies overcome difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Football coach Park Hang-seo was honoured on August 27 with a second-class Labour Order, while his assistants Lee Young-jin and Kim Han-yoon received the Certificates of Merit from the Prime Minister, in recognition of their contributions to Vietnamese football.
The Vietnam Sports Administration (VSA) is pressing ahead with preparations for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) and the 11th ASEAN Para Games to be hosted by Vietnam in 2021, according to a leading official of the VSA.
The host Vietnam will hold an online conference with regional countries on July 21 and 22 to announce the list of sports at the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) and the 11th Southeast Asian Para Games (Para Games 11), which are scheduled for 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought down the number of foreign visitors to Vietnam to close to 3.7 million in the first half of the year, a 57 percent decline year-on-year.
The national steering committee for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) and the 11th Southeast Asian Para Games (Para Games 11) has decided to establish an organising board for the two tournaments.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has set up a national steering committee for the organisation of the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) and the 11th Southeast Asian Para Games (ASEAN Para Games 11) in 2021.
The 7th Japan – Vietnam Festival has been postponed due to fears over the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which is spreading around the world, according to Special Advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance Tsutomu Takebe.
Many Vietnamese travel agencies are sitting on a knife’s edge as the number of cancelled flights and tour bookings are on the rise due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on January 29 asked tourism sectors of localities nationwide to pay special heed to well controlling and keeping close watch on the acute respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus originated from Wuhan, China (2019-nCoV).
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hailed efforts of athletes, coaches and experts of the Vietnamese sports delegation at the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games recently held in the Philippines, while meeting them in Hanoi on December 20.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc lavished his praise on the national women’s football team after their resounding success in the final of the SEA Games against Thailand in Manila, the Philippines on December 8.
A send-off ceremony was held in Hanoi on November 16 evening for the 568 athletes who are heading for the 2019 upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines.
The National Assembly acknowledged and highly appreciated the outcomes achieved in implementing the NA’s resolutions on socio-economic development and State budget in 2019 during a live-broadcast discussion on October 31.
Close to 8.5 million foreigners visited Vietnam in the first half of this year, a rise of 7.5 percent year on year, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO) on June 28.
A conference to promote Vietnamese tourism was held in Seoul in June 26 as an opening activity for the Vietnam Tourism-Culture Festival in the Republic of Korea (RoK).
The number of tourists from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam has grown impressively in the recent years, making the RoK the second biggest tourism market of Vietnam, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
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