Travel

Joyous celebrations for New Year 2018 are being held this December at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism, in the Dong Mo tourism area of Son Tay town, Hanoi.

Switzerland’s leisure airline Edelweiss will open seasonal direct flights from Zurich to Ho Chi Minh City, which is expected to boost the number of European tourists to Vietnam.

The Vietnamese Tourism-Culture Festival will be held in South Korea on December 14 as part of activities celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam-Korea diplomatic relations, according to Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Tourism sectors of the seven northern and central provinces have gained significant growth rates this year, Nghiem Thi Thanh Nguyet, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Emulation and Commendation Department, said.

According to Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Vietnamese Tourism - Culture Festival will be held in South Korea as part of activities celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam – South Korea diplomatic relations (December 22).

Ho Chi Minh City`s Nguyen Hue Street will be decorated with flowers for the week around Tet holiday.

Ho Chi Minh City will invest to build a number of waterway tours from now to 2020 as the city’s natural conditions are good to develop such kind of tourism products.

From December 11 to 17, Quang Nam Province’s first-ever South Korean Day Festival and South Korean Film Week will be held in Tam Ky City to mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and South Korea.

The 2nd Food Fest 2017 is set to transpire on December 8 - 10 in Ho Chi Minh City where guests can indulge their palates with as many as 1,500 types of food and drinks prepared by leading cuisine experts.

Accordingly, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently signed a decision recognising the resort town of Sa Pa in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai as a national tourism site.

China and South Korea remained the two largest source markets for Vietnam’s tourism with 348,000 and 224,000 visitors this month, taking their total to over 5.72 million in January-November, half of all international arrivals in Vietnam.

The demand for travel is popular with many people including the disabled. Nonetheless, tourism service for them still remains undeveloped in Vietnam.

Ninh Binh Province (Vietnam) is often praised with varied landscapes.

According to provincial authorities, the number of tourists to the Mekong Delta has increased significantly as many tourism programmes have been successful over the last year.

According to the Government’s Resolution No. 124/NQ-CP, citizens from Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, India, the Netherlands, and New Zealand could apply for e-visa to travel to Vietnam from November 29, 2017.

The tourism sector of the northern Quang Ninh Province is striving to become one of leading tourism centers in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia region, Vu Thi Thu, Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Committee, said.

The central coastal city of Quy Nhon has been named among the top 10 winter sun destinations for 2018, according to the UK newspaper The Guardian.

An Australian fam-trip delegation is surveying Vietnam’s tourism to sound out business prospects and work with potential local partners over measures to promote travel between the two nations.

Tourism leaders of Ha Noi and the northern mountainous Ha Giang Province have recently signed a cooperation agreement to boost the tourism development in the two localities in 2017-2020.

On November 30, in Korea, the Korea Tourism Oganization (KTO) in Vietnam held a gala dinner at the end of the year called "Korean Night and Korean Tourism Award Ceremony in 2017".