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Local travellers are still packing their suitcases during the year-end tourist season, despite difficult economic times, according to industry insiders.
MICE tours (which combine travelling with attending meetings, conferences or events/exhibitions) are booming in the country, and have emerged as a lucrative business for the tourism sector.
Forty contestants will vie for the crown of Miss Vietnam Tourism at Phan Dinh Phung Sports House in Hcm city on August 2.
Saigontourist Travel Service Company has so far this year welcomed nearly 18,300 visitors on Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibitions (MICE) tours, a year-on-year increase of 17 percent.
Saigon Restaurant Cruise Ship, featuring hundreds of Vietnamese traditional dishes, has been a favorite rendezvous for local and foreign visitors for more than ten years.
Over ten South Korean televisions and around 200 representatives from many televisions and film studios in Vietnam last week joined a two-day Vietnam-Korea Media Co-operation Seminar organized in HCMC by the Korea Communications Commission.
The Saigon Railway Transportation Company has announced it will sell over 40,000 cheap tickets for the HCM City-Hue route and vice versa as of July 15.
The Vietnam Tourism Association has selected Saigontourist Travel Service Co. and the five-star Caravelle hotel in HCMC as the best international tour operator and the best hotel in the country in 2007.
If you are visiting Saigon there are three daylong tours that you just should not miss -- city tour, a trip to the Cuchi tunnels, and the Mekong Delta trip. Since the itineraries for the three are fairly standard at all travel agents’, here are some tips to get the best out of them.
The Italian Five-Star Luxury Liner, Costa Allerga, will dock at Sai Gon Port on June 2nd with about 1,200 passengers and crew on board and will be received by Saigontourist
The Ministry of Transport is expected to license Air Speed Up soon, making it possible for the second private Airline in vietnam to start domestic flights later this year, according to the Vietnam Civil Administration of Vietnam (CAAV).
Ben Thanh market is a symbol of Ho chi minh city in the mind of local residents and the eyes of foreign tourists, says Hong Nhung and Van Anh
The city will check the licences of golf course projects to appraise the results of these projects and to serve its planning task.
Austrian singer Kat Parsons has been singing in the Park Lounge at the Park Hyatt Saigon hotel Hcm city since April 23.
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