Vacationers, at home and abroad, swarmed around places of attractions
across Vietnam during the six-day holiday starting from April 28 to
celebrate the 40th anniversary of southern liberation and national
liberation (April 30).
The central Da Nang city has reserved more than 16,000 rooms in
preparation for the seventh Da Nang International Fireworks Competition
on April 28 and 29.
Formosa group from Taiwan (China) said it is considering investing in
four projects in Quang Binh following a recent meeting with provincial
authorities.
Around 3,200 rooms in six four- and five-star hotels will enter the
market in Nha Trang this year, according to property services provider
Savills Vietnam.
Hanoi’s hotel market, particularly the five-star segment, performed
well through peak season in the last quarter of 2014, reported the
international real estate service firm Savills Vietnam.
Approximately 60,000 holiday-makers from the Republic of Korea (RoK)
have so far this year visited the central province of Khanh Hoa’s Nha
Trang city, doubling that of 2013, reported the provincial Department of
Culture, Sports and Tourism.
An international tourism complex including five-star hotels, convention
centres and casinos will be built on Phu Quoc Island, authorities in
southern Kien Giang province have announced.
More than 200,000 visitors flocked to the ninth international food
festival “Taste of the world 2014” which took place in Ho Chi Minh City
from December 4-7, according to the municipal Tourism Department.
In the past 10 months, nearly 20 foreign firms invested hundreds of
millions of US dollars in Vietnam's garment industry, the English
language news portal VietNamNet Bridge reported.
Local government in the central city of Da Nang is calling for companies
to invest in a resort project exclusively for elderly Japanese, the
Saigon Times Daily reported.
The Vietnam Tourism Awards 2013 ceremony will be held in the Hanoi Opera
House on September 20, the organising board announced at a press
conference in Hanoi on September 19.
The cable car system to Fansipan peak, dubbed the Roof of Indochina,
will be put into operation on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of
the country’s re-unification (April 30) next year, four months ahead of
schedule.
The Three- to five-star hotels in Hanoi have all reported an
unsatisfactory occupancy rate in the last six months, but the city
expects to have 1,300 more hotel rooms by 2016, the English language
news website VietNamNet Bridge reported on May 30.
Phu Quoc, the island district in the southern province of Kien Giang,
urgently needs more than 6,000 qualified workers for its hospitality
sector, said local authorities.
The central coastal
province of Khanh Hoa expects to welcome 97,000 visitors for the
holidays marking National Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day.
The tourism sector of the
central province of Khanh Hoa is ready to welcome an estimated 154,000
tourists, including 35,000 foreigners, in the first lunar week of the
Year of the Horse (January 31-February 5).
Central Khanh Hoa province, home to world-known Nha Trang Beach, is set
to get 10 four-star and five-star hotels with nearly 3,000 rooms in 2014
and the next few years as the province hopes to attract more
well-heeled travellers.
With three new five-star hotels to be put into service this year, the
high-end accommodation supply in Ho Chi Minh City will be abundant and
the room rates may not increase, according to a local newspaper.
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