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Sep 23, 2018 / 07:06

Vietnam among world’s best places to travel in 2019

Many experts of Traveller named top destinations and trends to travel in 2019 and Vietnam is on it.

Vietnam has been named one of the best places that everyone be going in 2019, according to Chief Executive of Intrepid Group James Thornton from Traveller, an Australia travel website.
 
Hoi An. Photo: Shutterstock
Hoi An. Photo: Shutterstock
Chief Executive of Intrepid Group James Thornton has just named Vietnam the number one country for cycling tours and second for visitor food adventures. It’s also where a US$20 round of drinks will go furthest 14 beers compared to two in Japan or three in Turkey. Travel is thirsty work.
Also on the list are Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Japan, Slovenia, Europe, Cuba.
Earlier, News Nation, an Indian newspaper, named Vietnam the number one destination among the top cheapest countries you can visit without having to empty you bank account.
News Nation suggested that the mountain resort of Da Lat in the central highlands is the perfect feast. Untouched and undeveloped Vietnam is a super cheap travel destination, as well as a beautiful country of lush mountain scapes and sweeping white sands.
Other places to visit while in this beautiful country can include Hanoi, which retains some of the French food culture where you will find some great patisseries producing croissants. Have a pint of Vietnam’s most popular brew, bia hoi and stopover in one of the eccentric fairytale rooms of the Crazy House.
Vietnam welcomed some 10.4 million foreign visitors in the first eight months of 2018, a 22.8% increase from the same period last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has announced.
Arrivals by air, road, and sea in the reviewed period recorded annual increases of 17.3%, 62.1% and 1.6%, respectively while growth was also seen in the numbers of visitors from all five continents.