Tourism

The Asia’s largest cruise ship Genting Dream on November 11th docked at Tien Sa Port in the central coastal city of Da Nang, bringing more than 4,000 tourists to the city.

The PM has ratified a master scheme for Son Tra national tourism site in central Da Nang city by 2025 with a vision towards 2030.

(CPV) - The low-cost carrier Vietjet Air on November 9th announced it would launch a Hanoi-Busan route from December 16th, 2016.

More than 2.74 million tourists visited Hue city in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, a year-on-year rise of 12%, in which nearly 900,000 were foreigners, up 3%.

The budget carrier Vietjet Air officially opened ticket sales for its new route linking Ho Chi Minh city with Taichung (Taiwan-China) priced from only VND210,000 (USD9).

Luxury cruise ship Genting Dream docked at Tan Cang – Cai Mep port in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau on November 8th, bringing 2,044 foreign visitors to exciting destinations in Vietnam.

The first Himalayan Cherry Blossom Festival will be held for three days in mid-January 2017, in Da Lat city, according to the Lam Dong provincial People’s Committee.

The newspaper New York Times of the United States has named Vietnam one of the 20 places to travel for young people in their twenties.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has forecast the country would attract 9.7 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2016, thanks to continuing two-digit growth at markets.

Vietnam ranked seventh among the destinations favoured by Chinese tourists, with more than 600,000 arrivals to the country in the second quarter of 2016.

Deputy Prime Minister (PM) Vu Duc Dam has approved the policy of opening a tourism route to Con Co Island, as proposed by the Quang Tri provincial People’s Committee.

On November 1st, the Superstar Virgo cruise ship brought 1,200 Chinese tourists as it docked at Tien Sa Port, the central province of Da Nang.

China Southern Airlines will launch a direct route from Shanghai to Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city, using Airbus A32s, from October 30th, said the carrier’s representative office in a recent meeting.

(CPV) – The low-cost carrier Vietjet Air on October 30th launched the two new routes of routes of Hanoi – Taipei (China) and Hanoi-Hue at Noi Bai International Airport.

Vietnam aims to attract 1 million tourists from Japan by 2019, officials said at a tourism cooperation forum held in Yokohama city on October 28th.

The Cam Ranh International Airport greeted more than 3.9 million passenger arrivals from start of the year, in which foreign passengers reached over 1.6 million, a year-on-year rise of 200%, reported Khanh Hoa News.

Foreign tourist arrivals to Vietnam since the beginning of the year surpassed 8 million, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Japanese destinations were introduced to Vietnamese visitors at a tourism workshop and tourism fair held by the Bureau of Tourism , Culture & Exchange of Nagoya city, Japan’s Aichi prefecture in Ho Chi Minh City on October 27th.

The Tuan Chau International Marina has officially put a new terminal into operation to receive tourists for Ha Long bay tours.

Chairman of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has signed Decision 5745/QD-UBND ratifying and announcing the list of relics in the capital from December 31st, 2015.

(CPV) – For the purpose of promoting tours to Vietnam’s new destination heritage sites, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism associated with Vietnam Airlines, Indonesian Association of Travel Agents (ASITA), Golden Tour & Convention to arrange a special FAM trip for Indonesian Travel agents and Media from October 21st – October 26th, 2016.

(CPV) - Vietnam Airlines and ANA HOLDINGS (ANA HD) said that they will launch codeshare partnership and frequent flyer programs at the beginning of their 2016 winter schedules, commencing on October 30th.

(CPV) – Four Vietnamese hotels have won renown on this year’s Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers' Choice Awards.

(CPV) - The low-cost carrier Vietjet Air continues to offer 150,000 promotional air tickets priced from just USD0 under “12pm, It’s time to Vietjet” from October 25th, 26th and 27th at www.vietjetair.com.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation between the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) was signed on October 20th to develop tourism exchange relations between the two countries in 2017.

The Guide to Sleeping in Airports website has listed Vietnamese airports Noi Bai and Da Nang among the best airports in Asia in 2016.

Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific on October 18th announced the opening of four new international routes to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Taipei.

Central Da Nang city was honoured as “Asia’s Leading Festival and Event Destination” at the World Travel Awards Asia (WTA) & Australasia Gala Ceremony 2016 held in the city on October 15th night.

Cambodia Angkor Air has officially announced that it will launch an international flight between Siem Riep and Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi from October 30th.

Vietnam Airlines Joint Stock Company generated an estimated consolidated revenue of more than VND52.5 trillion (USD2.34 billion) in the first nine months of this year, up 6 percent year-on-year.