Main road to be decorated with 120,000 flowerpots for Tet

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SaigonTimes English 30 month(s) ago

Main road to be decorated with 120,000 flowerpots for Tet

HCMC – The organizer of the annual Nguyen Hue Flower Street program has entered the final phase with Nguyen Hue Boulevard closed on January 21 to begin installing 120,000 flowerpots.

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Foreign arrivals to Ho Chi Minh City up 20pct

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VOV News English 31 month(s) ago

Foreign arrivals to Ho Chi Minh City up 20pct

Ho Chi Minh City received about 3.1 million foreign visitors in 2010, an increase of 20 percent over the previous year.
Domestic arrivals to the City also rose by 30 percent thanks to a successful domestic stimulus programme.
The city earned VND41,000 billion from tourism this year, up 17 percent compared to 2009, VND29,000 billion of which is from the hospitality sector and the remainding VND12,000 billion from the travel sector.
La Quoc Khanh, Deputy Director of the municipal Department...

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Tourism to boom during Christmas, New Year

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VietStock FI English 31 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

Two tourists prepares for kite surfing on a beach of the coastal resort town of Phan Thiet. The tourism industry is projected to generate US$4.6 billion this year, according to local tourist authorities.

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Tourism to boom during Christmas, New Year

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Báo Thanh Niên English 32 month(s) ago 1 related news

Tourism to boom during Christmas, New Year

Two tourists prepares for kite surfing on a beach of the coastal resort town of Phan Thiet. The tourism industry is projected to generate US$4.6 billion this year, according to local tourist authorities.

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Travel demand up but prices unchanged

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SaigonTimes English 32 month(s) ago 1 related news

Travel demand up but prices unchanged

HCMC – Travel companies reported domestic air tours to popular destinations during the Christmas and New Year holidays have sold out.

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Gold prices hit VND31.8 million

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SaigonTimes English 34 month(s) ago 6 related news

Gold prices hit VND31.8 million

HCMC – Domestic gold prices on Tuesday continued the uptrend, gaining VND170,000 to VND31.8 million per tael following sudden price hikes on the world market. A tael equals 1.2 troy ounce.

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125 Vietnamese tourism businesses to receive Guide Awards

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VOV News English 35 month(s) ago

125 Vietnamese tourism businesses to receive Guide Awards

Furama Resort in Da Nang city
Guide Awards will be presented to 125 leading tourism businesses at the 11th Guide Awards ceremony in Da Nang city on September 25.
The prestigious awards recognise excellent performance by hotels, resorts, and room booking services; food, beverage, entertainment, and transportation services; travel agents, shopping centres and other tourism services.
Award recipients have included famous hotels such as Caravelle, Majestic, Rex, Sheraton Saigon, and Melia Hanoi; attractive resorts like Furama Da Nang,...

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Vietnam Airlines offers 50 per cent discount on tickets

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VietnamNet English 35 month(s) ago 2 related news

Vietnam Airlines offers 50 per cent discount on tickets

VietNamNet Bridge – The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines is offering a 50 percent discount on domestic flights.

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Tours to Cambodia still available

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SaigonTimes English 42 month(s) ago

Although tourists this year have booked tours for Tet (Lunar New Year) earlier than in previous years and travel agencies stopped taking registrations a month ago, tours to Cambodia are still available.

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Some special things for foreigners during Tet

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VietnamNet English 43 month(s) ago 1 related news

Some special things for foreigners during Tet

A foreigner learns to wrap banh tet (traditional sticky rice cake) with a local family in the Mekong Delta's My Tho City on a tour arranged by Saigontourist. Ben Thanh Tourist, in collaboration with the department of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language for foreigners of HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities, is hosting day celebrations at Rural Waterways.

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Pilgrimage during Tet

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SaigonTimes English 43 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

Pilgrimage during Tet

To serve the huge demand of both local and overseas Vietnamese who often make pilgrimage trips during the Lunar New Year holidays, or Tet, Ben Thanh Tourist has launched two special tours that offer all needed services for such visitors and take them to tourist sites of the South and North regions.

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Revealing Sa Dec by tour

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VietnamNet English 43 month(s) ago 1 related news

Upon reaching the city, tourists will be taken to Huynh Thuy Le ancient house, an outstanding example of the combination of Eastern and Western architecture. The house was built in 1889 by Huynh Thuy Le who was the inspiration for the famous French writer Marguerite Duras to write her novel L’amant (The Lover). Le is the main character in the love story telling of Duras and Le’s first meeting on a ferry connecting Sa Dec and Vinh Long. The novel...

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Revealing Sa Dec by tour

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SaigonTimes English 43 month(s) ago 1 related news

Ben Thanh Tourist introduces a tour to the Mekong Delta’s Sa Dec City, which is famous for its colorful flower villages and old houses and pagodas.

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Ben Thanh Tourist in deal to serve 1,000 outbound tourists

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SaigonTimes English 44 month(s) ago

HCMC – HCMC-based Ben Thanh Tourist has won a contract with a foreign-local joint venture company in Vietnam to organize outbound tours for 1,000 staff and customers of the company to China. This is a biggest group of tourists from a single customer of the tour operator.

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Tour to explore history and nature

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SaigonTimes English 44 month(s) ago 2 duplicate news

Tour to explore history and nature

Nature challenges people to explore and history provokes people to look back. Ben Thanh Tourist is offering tourists a seven-day-and-six-night tour to Pac Po Cave and Ban Gioc Waterfall, giving travelers a chance to make a comeback to memories and artifact sassociated with the late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh.

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