The Saigon Travel Service Company (Saigontourist) welcomed 2,000 foreign tourists and crew sailing aboard the cruise liner Costa Classica, which berthed at the Navi Oil Port in Ho Chi Minh City on January 12. The visitors, mostly from Italy, Spain, the UK and Germany, will visit HCMC and several other destinations in the southern [...]
Foreign arrivals in Vietnam in November reached nearly 400,000, increasing sharply compared to October, says the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). Most of the visitors came from China, the Republic of Korea, the US and Taiwan, said a VNAT representative at a workshop in Hanoi on November 27. This suggests a recovery in the [...]
Twenty two art troupes from 16 countries have registered to perform at the June 3-6 Hue Festival 2008. The Hue Festival 2008 will be held in the former imperial city of Hue under the theme “Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development” to showcase the cultural values of Hue and Vietnam through hundreds of festive [...]
The number of foreign visitors to Vietnam in the first seven months of this year reached 2.17 million, a fall of 18.7 percent year on year, according to data from the Vietnam Administration of Tourism (VNAT). The number of visitors to the country for business dropped by 22.3 percent, for vacation by 21.4 percent, [...]
About 1.8 million foreigners visited Vietnam in the first half of the year, down over 19 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). Nguyen Manh Cuong, deputy general director of the VNAT under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that the decline was [...]
Despite a slight month-on-month increase in April, the number of international visitors to Viet Nam still dropped 18 per cent during the first four months of the year to reach about 1.29 million, said the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). Impact from the global economic recession remained the main reason for this [...]