Ha Long Bay in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has
been selected as one of the six “Most Brilliant Places for Exploration”
by travel website Youramazingplaces.com.
This year, more than 34,000 international cruise holiday-makers
landed in Chan May port to visit Hue ’s imperial sites in the central
province of Thua Thien–Hue.
Phu Quoc Island off Kien Giang Province will likely welcome strong waves
of international arrivals starting this November as many international
flights to the holiday destination during the peak season have been
planned, the Saigon Times Daily reported.
Home to numerous beautiful landscapes and cultural and historical sites,
Vietnam is increasingly attracting European tourists, particularly from
the UK, one of the Vietnamese tourism industry’s target markets.
Data
from the General Statistics Office show a stable increase in the number
of British tourists to Vietnam between 2007 and 2013, with 184,663
Brits visiting Vietnam last year. The first 8 months of 2014 saw 144,800
British tourists come to Vietnam, up by 17.2 percent compared to the
same period last year.
Vietnam Airlines and Indian’s Jet Airways have announced a pact on
cooperation towards the opening of a direct air route between Vietnam
and India, and supplements to the overall cooperation agreement between
two companies.
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines hosted a conference in Italy
on September 11 to promote Vietnam’s destinations and the country’s
potential for tourism development.
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines presented Vietnam as a
tourist destination to Belgian and Asian officials and travel agents at
an event in Brussels on September 9 aiming to promote tourism in the
Southeast Asian nation.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has proposed BBC
Television of the UK develop a 30-second video clip advertising
Vietnam ’s tourism and broadcast it on the BBC channel in the
Asia-Pacific region.
The tourism industry in the central province of Thua Thien- Hue has
implemented a series of measures, from introducing large-scale tourism
advertising campaigns to promoting their products and services at
domestic and foreign trade fairs, in a bid to attract more
holiday-makers to the area.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Vietnam increased by 9.5 percent
month-on-month in August 2014, according to figures from the General
Statistics Office (GSO).
A Vietnam-Indonesia tourism forum held in Jakarta, Indonesia on
September 2 on the occasion of Vietnam’s 69 th National Day, has helped
many tourist agencies of both sides establish partnerships.
Localities in central Vietnam have seen an increasing number of
domestic and international tourists in the past two years, particularly
over national holidays, thanks to a range of promotional activities and
stronger provincial tourism links.
Bang Lang stork sanctuary is seen as one of the most attractive tourist
destinations in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, which with a
primitive beauty allows visitors to wallow in nature.
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