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Saigon has streets of Chinese traditional medicines, ornamental birds and fish, wedding invitation cards, etc. Nguyen Thong has been the street for ornamental fish, fish tanks and everything related to ornamental fish for around 20 years. Trieu Quang Phuc Road is the home for scissors making and repairing enterprises and scissors shops for 35 years. [...]
Famous hotel brands such as Sheraton, Sofitel and Hilton snubbed the Vietnam Tourism Awards 2010 which announced its winners last week. Any hotels keen to win awards have to register and then be examined by Vietnam Tourism Association or local tourism management agencies. However, several five-star international hotels did not apply, according to Vietnam Tourism [...]
The Vietnam Record Book Centre (Vietkings) on October 20 unveiled 12 Vietnamese records set in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province. This is a result of the search for Vietnamese records that have been broken since 2009. These new records include: Vietnam’s first tourism city in Vung Tau; the first and biggest oil and gas centre [...]
Sea and island resources are being used for immediate benefits that do not ensure stable development, according to tourism experts. Hotels and restaurants are built on top of Ba Na Mountain to serve tourists in central Da Nang City. The city is a popular tourist destination because of the Ba Na-Nui Chua Nature Reserve. [...]
A project focused on developing rice straw-woven products aimed at tourists was recently set in place by the Scientific Union for Sustainable Tourism Development (STD). In July, the STD collaborated with the Duong Lam Commune women’s union and the relic management unit in introducing the potential of straw-woven products such as roosters, dolls, hats and [...]
Vietnam is still not a familiar destination for Japanese leisure travelers, even though Vietnam ranks 12th out of 30 countries welcoming Japanese visitors in 2010, said a Japanese tourism entrepreneur. Katsumi Shimizu, senior manager in charge of inbound tourism at JTB Corp., which joined the International Tourism Expo in HCMC last week, told the Daily [...]
If you are visiting Dong Thap Province in the flooding season, tourists, even locals in the Mekong Delta will feel excited with the familiar and strange feeling of nature in the alluvium wetland. If travelers come from other regions, that feeling will intensify when sitting on a small wooden boat drifting along the dark red [...]
Oc Om Boc, the annual Water Festival of the Khmer people, will this year coincide with the Vietnam Rice Festival in Soc Trang Province, home to a large community of the ethnic minority group. The nation’s second Rice Festival will take place in the Mekong Delta province on November 8-11 this year to glorify the [...]
A workshop on capital assistance for Vietnam-Italy joint ventures to strengthen cooperative opportunities and investment between the two countries’ businesses took place on Thursday in Hanoi. The workshop was jointly organised by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Italian Embassy in Vietnam. At the event, the Italian side presented a government programme [...]
Many domestic and outbound tours on the occasion of National Day holiday, September 2, are still available as more tour programs have been put on this year while demand is in decline. Local travel firms started selling tours two months earlier, so anyone making bookings these days might find it hard to stay at a [...]